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From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: November 8, 2007| Author: McConnell, Tristan; Khadaroo, Stacy Teicher | Copyright information

Byline: Tristan McConnell and Stacy Teicher Khadaroo Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Ashaiman, Ghana; and Boston -- Look deep enough into an impoverished shantytown in the developing world and you can find students and teachers hard at work in a humble school that doubles as a business for a local entrepreneur. The market for such schools is potentially huge. Save the Children estimates that about 100 million...

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