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Rajesh Kumar Sharma, the founder of a free school for slum children, teaches a class under a mass-tr...

India’s poor attend school under bridge

NEW DELHI – Their classroom is a flattened patch of dirt and rocks under the elevated rail tracks. Their blackboards are rectangles painted on...

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    Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., will offer preschool art class for children ages 3 to 5 with artist Ruth Bloom from 1 to 3 p.m. June 18, 19 and 20.

    The cost is $25 for each class. Children will finger paint and monoprint with chocolate pudding, listen to a story by John Cage and Lois Long titled The Mud Book, draw with beeswax crayons, model with beeswax to create a sculpture and create a life-size self-portrait using a variety of materials.

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