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Engines for Education is a nonprofit organization founded by Roger Schank, whose goal is to radically change our notions of school. John Adams said that education should teach people how to live or how to make a living. Our schools do neither. They teach how to pass tests about meaningless knowledge that never comes up in real life. The goal of Engines for Education is to provide an alternative. Our first full-year curriculum in Health Sciences is now available.
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Engines for Education is excited to announce that Little River High School in Little River, Kansas will offer the VISTA health sciences story-centered curricula as well as the Software Devleopment program to students anywhere in the world. This means that home school students anywhere in the U.S. as well as students in any country can enroll as students at Little River and get a year of credit from Little River H.S. Other curricula will be announced soon.
Tuition for this curriculum is variable depending on a student’s ability to pay. No student will be turned away because of tuition issues.
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VISTA's Year in Health Sciences is now open for enrollment! Engines for Education announces that, due to the generous support of The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, we have completed our first full-year Story-Centered Curriculum in Health Sciences. Read more about what the curriculum involves and how you can enroll.
The first students have begun VISTA's Health Science Story-Centered Curriculum and the results are impressive! See what people are saying about the curriculum and the work students are completing.
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The Software Development program is open for enrollment! In this series of story-centered curricula students are immersed in the world of developing modern web pages, from simple web pages to interactive websites with databases. During the process students will develop skills in the programming languanges needed to accomplish theses tasks as they learn by doing.
Read more about what the Software Development program entails.
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Introducing Grandparent Games, Roger Schank's new idea for teaching reading and math online to little kids. Inspired by his desire to interact with his new grandson who lived in a different state, Roger's innovative design is now available for other grandparents.
Read more about Grandparent Games and how you can build a relationship with your grandchild while contributing to their early education.
Read Roger's blog on Grandparent Games to see how it is working out with his own grandchildren.
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For more on how schools fail to teach people how to live, and to learn more about the Story-Centered Curriculum and our learn-by-doing approach to education, read Roger Schank’s Every Curriculum Tells a Story.
| Get Involved |
With your help, we can change how people view education and give our children an alternative to the antiquated, ineffective teaching methods that plague our schools.
Learn how you can get involved and start to make a difference.
- Participate in VISTA's Year in Health Sciences curriculum.
- Adopt the Story-Centered Curriculum for the schools in your area.
- Implement the Story-Centered Curriculum for your company's training needs.
- Support our efforts through a tax-deductible donation.
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