Public Schools (Goals 2000, and such.)

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It is amazing a program with such short-comings that you describe is able
to produce graduates that out-test every public school and match or
exceed other private schools at graduation.  Graduates routinely read at
speeds of over 600 words per minute with retention of 94% or better after
using the ACE Readmaster program.  Honor graduates are required to
fulfill 270 units minimum (which is a years work more that the required
amount in California) and score at least 1200 on the SAT).  ACE students
are routinely accepted at most major universitites due to their SAT
scores.  The curriculum, which is now in its third edition is
supplemented by Video Interactive Courses on CD in many subjects.  It is
used in over 7000 schools in over 120 countries and has been developed
with over $50,000,000.  Seems to me like someone somewhere just might
have found the inefficiencies that you describe if they were in fact a
problem.  Oh, yes, it has only been used for 25 years as of this year.

On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 16:05:54 -0700 "Bradley E. Young" <byoung@spry.com>
writes:
>The ACE program is taught at our church school.
>
>I feel like it promotes short term memory retention, and "cramming" 
>for
>tests.  I do not feel that these are appropriate educational 
>techniques.
>
>Paces are relatively short (weeks) and then the pre-test and test.  
>After
>the test, you are not required to retain the knowledge for further 
>tests.
>
>That being said, it is a relatively good program, and I would rather 
>send
>my kids there than public education.
>
>Brad