A classroom for the mountains

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part two of a three-part Devex series that examines the Aga Khan’s plan to create a new model for higher education in Central Asia, where the opportunity to achieve academic excellence is usually found somewhere else. Read part one here and part three here.

Inside Ian Canlas’ science classroom, students are discussing their grades on a recent homework assignment.

One of them asks Canlas why he deducted points from an answer that seemed generally correct.

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