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At this middle school, students teach each other. Is this new model the future of education?

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Student teacher Ayaan Khurram helps classmates in an 8th grade math class at Gilroy Prep in Gilroy, Calif., Thursday, May 2, 2024. Under the supervision of instructors, student teachers help their classmates at the charter school grasp their STEM and language arts studies. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group/TNS)

GILROY, Calif. -- In Gilroy Prep’s eighth-grade math class, there are no quiet rows of orderly desks facing an instructor. Instead, the room feels less like a classroom and more like the floor of a stock exchange, with the constant buzz of conversation as students sketch slopes and equations on tablets that project their stylus strokes onto nearby screens.

All the while, a trio of clipboard-wielding students circulate among their classmates � huddled in groups of three on the periphery of the room � asking questions, gesturing at the screens and explaining algebraic concepts.





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