Applied Scholastics Study Technology and Tutoring

We live in a world with over 800 million illiterate adults. Many millions more are not literate enough to compete in the workplace or fulfill their roles as citizens.

School drop out rates range from 25% to 45%. The majority of those graduating are reading at 6th and 7th grade reading levels. Only 39% of employers surveyed thought a high school graduate had the basics necessary to be meaningfully employed. Most community college professors felt that 75% of their freshman students were ill-prepared to survive in college.

Lacking proficiency in the basic skills, students cannot learn, understand and succeed in life. The doors of opportunity remain closed and hope for the future dim. What can reverse this downward spiral? Learning how to learn — the missing step in education — may be the most important resource to those reaching for a better tomorrow.

Applied Scholastics International, a non-profit public benefit corporation with a mission to improve education worldwide, provides this much needed resource through Study Technology (or Study Tech), a precise system for learning any subject. Developed by author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard, Study Technology is a breakthrough educational methodology that opens the door of opportunity and keeps it open for adults and children from urban centers in America and Europe to the townships of South Africa.

For nearly three decades, Applied Scholastics staff and representatives have worked in partnership with government agencies, educators, schools, corporations, community groups and parents to implement Study Technology, bringing hope of a world free from illiteracy and the possibility of life-long learning.