Over 20,000 scholarships have been used since 1964. We are enrolling NCLB students to fill this year's quota. TWO KINDS OF SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE 1. READING IMPROVEMENT age 6 to 14 A two hour per day program. Students receive six weeks. Parents can pay the cost by training to be parents coaches. (5 or 6 classes per week are available.) All students are paid for the rough draft writing they do which averages 50 cents to $1.00 per day of attendance. Students can be reimbursed for bus fare or gasoline costs if needed.

Comments "He has learned more in six week at your school than he has learned in two years at public school with special education teachers. The positive reinforcement he is receiving at your schools is helping him a lot." "You are obviously very much in tune with the likes of the Joe Students of this world, and your kindness in his behalf goes above and beyond the call of duty. Thank you!

2. WRITE START FOR FIVE YEAR OLDS Write Start is a pre-reading and computer prep program. WRITE START GOAL Provide students with fundamental early word recognition writing and keyboarding skills required to perform in the top 25% of their classes for life. Requirements: Limited to five year-olds and then parents. 2 hours daily. Students can start immediately unless a class has a waiting list. Call and ask for the Scholarship Program. __________________________________ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q. What is the catch? A. Students and Parents must attend a minimum of 3 to 5 of the classes available each week. Any days missed must be made up that week or the student and parents will be dropped from the program. Students and parents can take one 2 week vacation during the scholarship. Q. What would these six week scholarships cost if you had to pay? A. Depends on how many hours you attend 40 hours $2000, 60 hours $3000, (double the value if parent learns to be a parent coach). The more you attend the more it is worth. Q. Who pays for the scholarships? A. The scholarships are funded by the Carl H. Peterson Scholarship Trust. $200,000 to $300,000 of scholarships are used each year. ____________________________________ DENVER POST ARTICLE Reprinted from the Denver Post By Karin M. Heath Special Features Writer The Denver Post April 14, 1992 Whoever said you can't get anything for free? Accelerated Schools is giving away something priceless: Education. Accelerated Schools offers a scholarship for 5-year-old children to learn keyboarding and computer skills. In the "Write Start" course, children are introduced to computers and keyboards at an age when learning is easy and computers are toys. With the typing tutor on the computer, they actually teach themselves how to type. By the end of the 100-hour program, children will have written up to 200 pages. The advantages of such a program are clear. Carl Peterson, Director of Accelerated Schools, believes that "keyboarding and computer skills are a requirement to make it in our society today." He adds that if children are introduced to computers early, they will learn to write better. In most classrooms, they are constantly reprimanded for going outside of the margins or not staying on the lines. Kids develop a fear of writing before they even get a chance to express themselves. Peterson's belief is that students don't have to fail. The program for 5-year-olds lets them have a lot of success in the classroom atmosphere. "They need to feel confident," Peterson says. "And we try to build in a lot of successes." This attitude contributes to the overall goals of the course: Improved self-image and confidence in learning. So what's the catch? Well, there are a few requirements to be admitted into this program. First, children must be five years old. Four-year-olds are too young, and six-year-olds don't qualify. The same class is offered to other-than-five-year-olds for $2,000 to $3,000. Parents must be able to bring the child a minimum of three times a week for a two-hour session. Parents must attend parent coach class after same time. It's a small price to pay for a class that can give your child the upper edge when he or she hits the classroom. For more information, call Accelerated at 758-2003. __________________________________ ADVICE TO PARENTS GET TWICE THE RESULTS BY ATTENDING 5 DAYS PER WEEK A five day per week attendance, instead of a three day attendance, will double your child's grade gains. This is the best value for your investment of time or money. Our results since 1964 show that optimum grade-level and self-concept gains are very dependent on frequency and consistency of attendance. 3 day per week students are likely to make one year gain in six weeks. (36 hours in six weeks). 5 day per week attendance produces twice the results. 5 day per week students are likely to make two years gain in six weeks. 3 day attendance value $800.00 36 hours at $50.00 per hr. 5 day attendance value $3,200.00 64 hours at $50.00 per hr. _____________________________ EXPLANATION: FREQUENT ATTENDANCE MAKES FASTER GAINS. Examples: When students attend our Accelerated Schools: Five days per week, results average one grade level gain per 32 hours; Three days per week, results average one grade level gain per 37 hours; Two days per week, results average one grade level gain per 54 hours; One day per week, results in no predictable gain. CONCLUSION Students are much less likely to make gains when they attend less than three times per week. Many schools offer special help once or twice per week. If other schools would schedule their remedial help 5 times per week, their grade gain results would increase dramatically. _______________________________ WHY ARE WE DOING THIS? In 1964, Carl Peterson decided to "prime the reading pump". He wants to raise public consciousness. Peterson works to prove that "students don't have to fail" when given the proper instruction, and scheduling. _____________________________ FOLLOW UP STUDIES In 1989, we predicted that 90% of the 5-year-old students who completed our Write Start program would continue to be in the top 25% of both their classes and life's opportunities. So far the results are better than we predicted. __________________________________ FOLLOW UP STUDY We are making a 40 year follow up study: We want to compare the long term successes of students that attend these scholarships. We need the help of parents. We want to follow the progress of your student for 40 years. We want to contact you by phone annually for 40 years. For your help, you will receive a free six week scholarship at Accelerated Schools. There is no cost to you. Parents who need it, will be reimbursed for bus fare or gasoline costs each time they bring their child for classes. What do you have to do? Our annual phone calls will ask how you feel your student is doing. Free Annual diagnostic Testing starting at age 5 through 15 will give us the ability to score and rank your child's progress on standardized tests. Feedback to you: We will call you to summarize and report the results of this study each year of the planned forty years. Note: This scholarship changes the balance of approval/disapproval by parents. More approval creates many possibilities and opportunities for learning more. Learning more earns a wider audience for approval. More approval encourages the child to explore more. Try more new areas of learning. We believe participating in any part of this study and scholarships will make a very large difference in your student's life successes. We feel that the results of our 40 year long-term study are enormous. Part of the study compares how students who attended scholarships are achieving vs. students who did not. What are the results of the study so far? Parents of our scholarship students say "great" when asked how their children are doing. Many parents of students who have not been through our program express considerable concern. They do not think their children are doing "great", because their children are not performing in the top 25%. Parents of students from high-risk environments are very worried for the future of their children. Call us for more information and to enroll in the study. __________________________________ WRITE START 40 YEAR STUDY Improving the rate of learning in early years is time critical. Many experts and parents agree that 90% of what we learn in our lifetime is learned before we are 6 years of age. If this is true, speeding up the learning before age 6 becomes vitally important. The data collected since 1989 has shown that over 75 % of the students in this study perform in the top 25% of their school groups. Over half of the parents feel their child is in the top 10 % of their classes. Other purposes of this 40 year study: We want other schools to know the best way to solve problems. We want to share data on effective procedures that can be inexpensively replicated by the public schools. Here are some of our priorities: 1. Run an effective program that creates long term student success. 2. Prove that success with follow-up documentation. 3. Measure the amount of academic success for a forty year period.

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