Some 30% of his class came to Silicon Valley and all have founded technology companies; Mr Uppaluru is currently on his fourth, and has just hired 35 people in Silicon Valley and 25 in Bangalore.More of these immigrant entrepreneurs are now returning home, but without giving up on Silicon Valley, says Sridar Iyengar, a former president of the Indus Entrepreneurs, a predominantly Indian network.
Some of his classes had as many as 40 students, all of them performing well below grade level.
Tests showed he had a high intellect, but Mr. Kelly regularly skipped homework and was barely passing some of his classes in his early years of high school.
Basheer begins some of his classes with video footage of a tea seller in the Himalayan foothills speaking learnedly and at length on biopiracy.
Mr. Krohn said he has liked some of his classes, especially one on the Spanish Civil War, but found the cost crushing, even with a scholarship paying half of his $60,000-a-year 60,000-a-year 60,000-a-year expenses
DURING his freshman year at Point Park University in Pittsburgh a couple years ago, James Acklin, now 20, felt lost among the social cliques on his new campus until he got to talking with a student who was in some of his classes.
Porter, a Harvard professor, used the house as a private residence, but also taught some of his classes there and allowed students to use his extensive library.
To stay in shape he would run up flights of stairs, noting in a 1981 interview with the New York Times that some of his classes were on the 18th floor at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.
Combs excelled academically and skipped some grades, graduating as valedictorian of his class in 1927 at age 15.
And yet the biggest hit right now isn't about angst or depression or some kid shooting himself in front of his class.
