Volunteers are supporting a homework club and running GCSE tutoring for local teenagers as well as other activities, and giving general help in the library.
The oldest one has been summoned from university to provide the other two with some emergency tutoring ahead of their exams.
James Mottram: Did you enjoy tutoring all the little ballet school girls?
But that angers thousands of conservative families who praise the quality of the Gulenists' tutoring and their family values.
A recent survey by the Sutton Trust, an education charity, found that 22% of parents with 11-16-year-olds 11-16-year-olds 11-16-year-olds 11-16-year-oldspoint.
Poor performing schools increased grade retention, offered tutoring to struggling students, reorganized classes (as opposed to smaller class sizes), and narrowed the curriculum to material on the tests ("teaching to the test").
But thanks to high-level learning, tutoring (if needed), an emphasis on accountability and good behavior, and a ten-hour school day, its students look not only toward graduation, but toward college.
Poor children are trapped in dismal schools, while richer parents spend ever more cash on tutoring their offspring.What, if anything, needs to be done?
Even in some that do not, like Singapore and South Korea, the best teachers top up their salaries by tutoring exam candidates after school hours.Many well-aired objections to variable pay have been muted by changes to English education.
But even the most grizzled veterans of rich-world journalism still seem glad to earn extra money tutoring tyros in poor countries.
The senior lama traditionally most involved in identifying and tutoring a young Dalai Lama is the Panchen Lama.
