Effective Education
While grassroots programs in inner cities and underprivileged areas around the world have had remarkable results, enormous success has also come from Applied Scholastics programs in schools and tutoring. In a project in Brixton, near London, England, 8- to 13-year-old students were put through a course in reading skills based on study technology which focused on finding misunderstood words in their studies. Each student spent eight to ten hours over ten days doing the course. Based on standard tests, the students who went through this course gained an average of 1.3 years in reading age. A control group comprised of students who weren’t put through this course dropped in reading level. A Los Angeles study showed an average gain of 1.8 years in vocabulary and comprehension after only 10 hours of tutoring in study technology. A study in Arizona showed an average gain of two years in comprehension and vocabulary among those who participated in school programs where study technology was used. In South Africa, a class of underprivileged high school students trained in study technology achieved a 91 percent pass rate on the country’s Department of Education examination at the end of the school year, a marked improvement. Statistics such as these translate into effective education and an assurance that young people can grow up to confident, self-reliant adulthood with learning skills they can use every day of their lives.
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