What is Applied Scholastics?
Applied Scholastics International is a non-profit, public benefit corporation whose purpose is to improve education worldwide. Located in Los Angeles, it has affiliated offices in 31 countries including Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Australia, Malaysia, China, Russia and Venezuela.
The ability to understand and retain data, to actually learn, is vital in today’s society. New technology has provided an avalanche of information sources to cope with, while the overall literacy level of society has been steadily downtrending since the mid-1960s.
Applied Scholastics was founded in 1972 to advance the application of L. Ron Hubbard’s Study Technology outside the Churches of Scientology and thus broadly remedy learning difficulties for people of all ages and in all walks of life.
Study Technology is based on laws that underlie all learning. It delineates the barriers which block a person’s ability to grasp information and provides precise methodologies to overcome those barriers. (See "What is Study Technology?")
Founded by a team of educators and teachers from various American schools and universities, Applied Scholastics today coordinates the many programs throughout the world which use Study Technology. Applied Scholastics programs have been used to teach gang members in Los Angeles’ inner city, students in New Zealand and teachers in South Africa.
- More than 3 million people in 31 countries and on 6 continents have participated in Applied Scholastics programs.
- Applied Scholastics programs operate in 66 schools as well as 25 community centers. There are a total of 190* Applied Scholastics groups.
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