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Scientology v. Education - The Scam of "Study Technology"
Mar 24, 2011
School denies Scientology deal — The Age (Australia)More: Also on Channel 7's Today Tonight
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jewel Topsfield Source:
The Age (Australia) A MELBOURNE school linked to the Church of Scientology spends among the lowest per student in Australia despite receiving thousands of dollars in government funding. Yarralinda School in Mooroolbark has also come under fire for obscuring its affiliation with Scientology, in a flyer that spruiks the school as a "no homework school". My School website reveals Yarralinda School spent $3727 per student in 2009, despite receiving $6171 per student in combined government funding and $4609 per student in fees. Victoria's independent ...
Mar 10, 2011
De l'aide au devoirs inspirée par la scientologie? (Homework Help for Schoolchildren or Scientology Courses?) — Le Journal de MontréalMore: ocmb.xenu.net
Type: Press
Author(s):
Michel Jean Source:
Le Journal de Montréal [Contributor note: unofficial English translation below french article text]
MONTRÉAL - Le centre d’aide aux devoirs l’Académie Phénix, de Longueuil, offre plus que du soutien scolaire aux enfants. Le centre et son directeur, Gilles Léonard, affirment pouvoir régler les problèmes de déficit d’attention sans recourir au Ritalin, selon une enquête de l’émission JE à TVA.
Et ce, grâce aux méthodes d’enseignement d’«Applied Scholastics», développées par le fondateur de l’Église de Scientologie, L. Ron Hubbard.
L’équipe de JE s’est présentée munie d’une ...
Feb 25, 2011
Enquête JE // La scientologie étend ses tentacules — TVA
Type: Press
Author(s):
Michel Jean Source:
TVA Dans son enquête sur l'Église de scientologie, l'équipe de JE a constaté que le mouvement étend ses tentacules au Québec, notamment dans le milieu des affaires. La scène a tout d'un déjeuner d'affaires comme les autres. Pendant une heure et demie, Sylvain McDuff, consultant en management, explique à des propriétaires et gestionnaires de PME comment ses méthodes de gestion peuvent les aider. L'homme d'une cinquantaine d'années, diplômé du Collège d'administration Hubbard en Californie où l'on forme des consultants WISE (World Institute ...
Aug 1, 2010
Rev. Jessie Battle earns center director and teacher certification — Kingsville Record and Bishop News
Type: Press
Source:
Kingsville Record and Bishop News A parent workshop will be held Monday at St. Paul AME The Rev. Jessie Battle received a center director and teacher certification from the Applied Scholastics International organization recently. He will hold his first free workshop teaching parents how to teach their children self-regulated learning at 6 p m., Monday, Aug. 2, at St. Paul A.M.E. Church, located at 531 West Warren Ave. in Kingsville. [...]
Jul 7, 2010
Tutoring service approved by DC public schools has ties to Church of Scientology — WTTG-Fox 5
Type: Press
Author(s):
Melanie Alnwick Source:
WTTG-Fox 5 WASHINGTON — Federal law says that failing public schools have to provide free tutoring service to students. It is called Supplemental Educational Services (SES). Concerned parents contacted FOX 5 about one of the groups approved for tutoring by D.C.'s Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) — a group that has connections to the founder of the Church of Scientology. Applied Scholastics International is one of 29 tutoring services listed in the Title I Supplemental Educational Services Guide. Parents of ...
Mar 27, 2010
Scientology Workgroup of the Ministry of the Interior in Hamburg: Educational Symposium [Amy Scobee] [Part 1] More: Part 2 , Part 3
Mar 17, 2010
Athena under attack for not disclosing Scientology links — Central (Sidney, Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Burton-Bradley Source:
Central (Sidney, Australia) NSW Greens MLC Dr John Kaye has launched another attack on the Athena School in Newtown after he made a formal complaint about a leaflet from the school, which failed to fully reveal its links to Scientology. “The leaflet has been distributed to homes in Sydney’s Inner West. It fails to warn parents that this is a private school that uses teaching methods developed by the Scientology organisation,” Dr Kaye said. The Greens are asking the consumer watchdog to direct the ...
Mar 9, 2010
School rapped over failure to declare Scientology links — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Anna Patty Source:
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) A LEAFLET advertising the Athena School in Newtown has been referred to the state's consumer watchdog for allegedly obscuring the school's link to Scientology. The NSW Greens yesterday lodged a complaint to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, claiming the leaflet represented false advertising and a potential breach of the Trade Practices Act. The Applied Scholastics logo, the education arm of Scientology, appears in the bottom corner of the leaflet, which includes the words ''education services and materials based on the ...
Feb 11, 2010
Friskoleforældre betaler til Scientology [Danish, unofficial English translation: "Free school parents pay to Scientology"] — Ekstra Bladet (Denmark)
Dec 15, 2009
Scientology: 'The Crusade' continues — Gawker
Dec 9, 2009
Today Tonight: Scientology secrets — Channel 7 (Australia)More: Youtube
Dec 3, 2009
Melbourne school linked to Scientology received $300,000 in federal stimulus money — Herald Sun (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Masanauskas Source:
Herald Sun (Australia) A MELBOURNE school linked to the controversial Church of Scientology received $300,000 in funding from the federal stimulus package. Yarralinda, in Mooroolbark, is one of two schools in Australia that uses the teaching methods of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd recently expressed concerns about the Church of Scientology after independent senator Nick Xenophon made serious claims against the organisation under parliamentary privilege. Last week, the State Government told its schools not to distribute materials by a Scientology-funded ...
Dec 2, 2009
Schools linked to Scientology will get $1.6m — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Anna Patty Source:
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) FEWER than 100 children will benefit from more than $1.6 million in Federal Government subsidies over four years to two schools strongly linked to the Scientology movement. The Athena School in Newtown will receive $751,519 in recurrent funding from the Federal Government for the 2009 to 2012 funding period. It has also been allocated $135,287 for a new library, $114,713 for primary classroom refurbishments and $50,000 for other refurbishments under the Rudd Government's Building the Education Revolution program. The Athena School ...
Nov 24, 2009
Rudd's concerns no bar to funds for school that uses Hubbard text — Sidney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Anna Patty Source:
Sidney Morning Herald (Australia) THE PRIME MINISTER, Kevin Rudd, has expressed concern about the Church of Scientology but will provide subsidies worth more than $1 million to a Sydney school that promotes the teaching of the church's founder, L.Ron Hubbard.
Mr Rudd said he shared some of the concerns of the independent senator Nick Xenophon, who used parliamentary privilege last week to level allegations of torture, perjury and financial coercion against the church.
Newtown's Athena School is licensed by Applied Scholastics International, which is strongly ...
Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 02 Lie to me — BFG Books
Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 04 The landscape is changing — BFG Books
Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 05 The policy of truth — BFG Books
Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 25 Never let me down again — BFG Books
Sep 11, 2009
What goes on inside Will Smith, Jada Pinkett-Smith's school? — ABC News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Heather Downie Source:
ABC News The New Village Leadership Academy Allegedly Mimics Some Scientology Teaching Methods Like many modern celebrity power couples, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith are not satisfied with just being actors. The couple, who met on the set of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" in 1995, have had a lot of different roles over the years, most recently founding the New Village Leadership Academy (NVLA), a private elementary school in Calabasas, Calif., which opened its doors this week for the start of the ...
Aug 6, 2009
Applied Scholastics and new study technology — Vanguard (Nigeria)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Emmanuel Edukugho Source:
Vanguard (Nigeria) The bane of our educational system is that pupils and students study to pass examinations and not learning to understand and apply knowledge practically and productively. Many people think that they study so they can pass a test. But that is not what learning is about.
That is not why you study. You study to use what you have learned.
Applied scholastics recognises the challenges that teachers and lecturers face in teaching their students. Pressures from school managements, parents, governments, students, ...
Aug 6, 2009
Scientology cases Berlin schools for vague project — The Local (Germany)
Type: Press
Source:
The Local (Germany) Published: 6 Aug 09 12:59 CET
The Church of Scientology is targeting Berlin and Brandenburg schools for a vague fact-finding mission, sending more than 500 letters to various institutions in recent weeks, daily Der Tagesspiegel reported on Thursday.
According to the paper, a Scientologist group called the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) has contacted school leaders with questions about things such as how many of their students suffer from reading deficiencies or behavioural issues, or how many psychologists are on ...
Jun 10, 2009
Study Technology: Is it the answer to Ja's learning problems? — Jamaica Gleaner
Type: Press
Author(s):
Carl Gilchrist Source:
Jamaica Gleaner A decades-old teaching concept developed by scientology founder, the late L. Ron Hubbard, which appears to guarantee increased learning when applied correctly, has reached Jamaica, after having made an impact in more than 70 countries. Hubbard, who died in January 1986, developed a revolutionary concept called Study Technology, in the early 1960s, after his investigations into what was causing the decline in learning abilities of his students. In 1972, based on Hubbard's concept, Applied Scholastics International (ASI), a non-profit, public benefit ...
May 25, 2009
Týden: Scientologists to open primary school in Czech Republic — Prague Daily Monitor
Type: Press
Source:
Prague Daily Monitor Brno, South Moravia, May 24 (CTK) — The Czech Education Ministry has approved the establishment of a primary school in Brno that will teach children according to the method of scientology founder Ron Hubbard, the weekly Tyden writes in its issue out on Monday. The school opens in September. The education is allegedly to be completely non-religious, Tyden adds. Yet a couple of years ago the Education Ministry called scientologists a dangerous sect. In some countries they are even monitored by ...
May 23, 2009
Teaching to learn // Local pastor wants to introduce tutoring program — WEEK (Peoria-Bloomington, Illinois)
Type: TV
Source:
WEEK (Peoria-Bloomington, Illinois) A Peoria pastor wants to see District 150 schools adopt a program that tutors young people on how to better motivate themselves. Reverend Ernest Rodgers held a meeting Saturday at the Greater Apostolic Bibleway Church to introduce parents, students and District 150 assistant superintendent Herschel Hannah to the Applied Scholastics Achievement program. Rodgers was sold on the program during a recent trip to a school in St. Louis. "I was so impressed," said Rodgers. "Kids were testifying how the program worked. ...
Apr 29, 2009
Martin Hamilton-Smith humiliated by forged 'Labor invoices' — The Advertiser
Type: Press
Author(s):
Russell Emmerson Source:
The Advertiser OPPOSITION Leader Martin Hamilton-Smith has admitted he used fake documents for a parliamentary attack accusing Premier Mike Rann of corruption.
He apologised to Parliament over his reliance on faked documents linking Mr Rann to a supposed illegal $20,000 donation from an organisation linked to the Church of Scientology.
Mr Hamilton-Smith told Parliament on Tuesday that Mr Rann had a meeting with Applied Scholastics, an education company linked to the Church of Scientology, in Melbourne to smooth the way for "special treatment" ...
Mar 1, 2009
Controversial church linked to tutors on state list — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Type: Press
Author(s):
Cameron McWhirter ,
Heather Vogell Source:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution A tutoring agency in Cobb County with ties to the Church of Scientology has drawn critics along with federal dollars. Applied Scholastics pledges to offer only secular lessons. But critics who lodged four complaints last year against the nonprofit — which uses Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s teachings — wrote they feared it wouldn’t keep ideology out of the classroom. State education officials began an annual inspection in February and will observe the group’s tutoring this month. The review will include ...
Feb 3, 2009
[ABLE and other Scientology-linked secular fronts]
Type: Account
Author(s):
Lawrence H. "Larry" Brennan I worked on the corporate restructuring in the early 80s that lead to the various “ABLE” groups (Narconon, Applied Scholastics, etc.) falling under the “ABLE” umbrella which in turn was 100% controlled by organized scientology’s Sea Organization under different corporate umbrellas (mostly Church of Scientology International “CSI"). I also handled or oversaw the handling of all their main legal matters around the world as part of the Guardian’s Office for some seven years prior to that.
Prior to the “corporate sortout” ...
Nov 15, 2008
SAN MARCOS: Planning panel to consider school's permit request Monday — North County Times (California)
Type: Press
Source:
North County Times (California) SAN MARCOS —- The Planning Commission will meet Monday to consider a private school's request to renew its operating permit.
Applied Scholastics serves 65 kindergarten through third-grade students in the building formerly known as the Old Richland Schoolhouse at 134 Woodland Parkway. Delphi Academy, which runs the school, is seeking to serve students up through the eighth grade under a permit renewal.
The school's maximum number of students would remain the same, even if the request is granted.
An agenda for ...
Sep 18, 2008
Scientology link at Montessori school alarms parents — CBC
Type: Press
Source:
CBC Some parents are upset with a study method introduced by a Montessori school in northwest Toronto, which they say has its roots in the Church of Scientology. Parents said the owner of the Bambolino Montessori Academy, a private school, told parents last week that it was introducing a new learning method called applied scholastics. Janice Blundon said parents like her weren't given a choice when the dean at her son's school told them they'd be implementing the study technique. "I let ...
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