Dave Eggers--- Once Upon a School

One on one connections and education for a student can greatly influence their success in a learning atmosphere. Even 40 or 50 hours a year of individual aid can increase a student’s abilities by one grade level. Eggers begins with a school in San Francisco that had many students struggling with English studies because it was not their first language, and then shows how a tutoring building opened near to the school became very popular among the students in the area. Many other buildings associated with the concept of the first one began to open all over the country, and some internationally, often focusing on areas with students in homes that need the extra help. He is very humorous with the audience, and connects his ideas and successes to all those free tutoring schools and what the students tutored were able to accomplish after the fact. Eggers' style of speaking and interacting is very informal. Teaching a student one on one can help them much more, and it is important for international societies to be able to single out students to help them outside of the classroom. Schools normally do not have the ability to help students learn in this manner because they are short on the staffing for each student. This form of aid can greatly improve their performance in the classroom and is a great supplement to their education in the school. Worldwide, this would help create a better equally educated group of students, and can help children that need a hand reach the levels of their peers.