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Scientology v. Education - The Scam of "Study Technology"
Feb 14, 2011
The Apostate // Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology — New YorkerMore: Primary Sources: L. Ron Hubbard Leaves the Navy , guardian.co.uk
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lawrence Wright Source:
New Yorker On August 19, 2009, Tommy Davis, the chief spokesperson for the Church of Scientology International, received a letter from the film director and screenwriter Paul Haggis. “For ten months now I have been writing to ask you to make a public statement denouncing the actions of the Church of Scientology of San Diego,” Haggis wrote. Before the 2008 elections, a staff member at Scientology’s San Diego church had signed its name to an online petition supporting Proposition 8, which asserted that ...
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A Piece of Blue Sky (book) •
Abortion •
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Amy Scobee •
An Introduction to Scientology Ethics (book) •
Anne Archer •
Anonymous (group) •
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Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (book) •
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Castile Canyon School (Happy Valley ranch) @ 45750 Castile Canyon Road Hemet CA United States •
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Delphi Schools, Inc. •
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Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (book) •
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Exscientologykids.com •
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Marc Headley •
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Michelle "Shelly" Miscavige (né Barnett) •
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Yael Lustgarten
Oct 18, 2010
Louis Farrakhan renews call for self-determination among Nation of Islam followers — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Shelley Rossetter ,
Thomas C. Tobin Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Minister Louis Farrakhan urged black people to take the future into their own hands during his keynote address Sunday at the Nation of Islam's annual day of atonement. "Ain't nobody going to do something for us; we're going to have to do it for ourselves," he said to more than 8,000 people at the Tampa Convention Center. The event marked 15 years since the Million Man March was held in Washington, D.C., which Farrakhan, a polarizing figure whose remarks on Jews ...
Jul 7, 2010
Tutoring service approved by DC public schools has ties to Church of Scientology — WTTG-Fox 5
Type: Press
Author(s):
Melanie Alnwick Source:
WTTG-Fox 5 WASHINGTON — Federal law says that failing public schools have to provide free tutoring service to students. It is called Supplemental Educational Services (SES). Concerned parents contacted FOX 5 about one of the groups approved for tutoring by D.C.'s Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) — a group that has connections to the founder of the Church of Scientology. Applied Scholastics International is one of 29 tutoring services listed in the Title I Supplemental Educational Services Guide. Parents of ...
May 13, 2010
Ex-Scientologist reveals details behind 'dangerous cult,' Tom Cruise in new book — PopEater
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mike Hess Source:
PopEater Most people know very little about Scientology aside from the fact that Tom Cruise, John Travolta and other celebrities are a part of it, and that it's had its fair share of controversy over the years. A new book is looking to pull back the curtain on the mysterious religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard, and the author certainly knows her stuff. Amy Scobee is a former Scientologist who was in the church for more than two decades, and worked in ...
Mar 19, 2010
Scientology in St Lucia? — St. Lucia Star
Type: Press
Author(s):
Alisha Ally Source:
St. Lucia Star [Picture / Caption:Ludwig Alpers (Freewinds Port Captain) playing harmonica with Ras Abdular of the Wilton's Yard Association.] St Lucians beware! Scientology is coming!” That was the cry coming from a passerby near the Derek Walcott Square in the heart of Castries on Tuesday. It was the official launch of The Way To Happiness Program in St Lucia. Before the meat and potatoes of the program are delved into, organizers note that although the primary book is written by the founder of ...
Feb 25, 2010
Scientology's "Investigations"
Dec 20, 2009
Developer needs cash to finish Fenway resort renovation in Dunedin — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Drew Harwell Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) [Picture of property]
Built in 1925 on 6.4 acres, the Fenway resort on the shore of St. Joseph Sound served as a waterfront getaway for Jazz Age high society. It has also been the campus of two colleges.
DUNEDIN — George Rahdert invested $6 million of his money into the Fenway renovation, hoping profits from hotel customers and condo sales would follow its timely completion.
Yet after four years and another $6 million in borrowed money, not a single shovel has ...
Dec 15, 2009
Scientology: 'The Crusade' continues — Gawker
Nov 22, 2009
The Miscavige Legal Statements: A Study in Perjury, Lies and Misdirection
Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 02 Lie to me — BFG Books
Sep 11, 2009
What goes on inside Will Smith, Jada Pinkett-Smith's school? — ABC News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Heather Downie Source:
ABC News The New Village Leadership Academy Allegedly Mimics Some Scientology Teaching Methods Like many modern celebrity power couples, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith are not satisfied with just being actors. The couple, who met on the set of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" in 1995, have had a lot of different roles over the years, most recently founding the New Village Leadership Academy (NVLA), a private elementary school in Calabasas, Calif., which opened its doors this week for the start of the ...
Aug 9, 2009
Will Smith's Scientology ties — New York Post
Type: Press
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New York Post WILL Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, deny they are Scientologists and deny the school they founded is a Scientology school — yet they've replaced the head of the New Village Leadership Academy, Jacqueline Olivier, with a woman who's studied Scientology, Piano Foster. The superstar couple had home-schooled their kids, Jaden, 9, and Willow, 7, before opening the school last September in Calabasas, Calif. They reportedly quarreled with Olivier over the school's Study Tech curriculum, which was devised by Scientology ...
Aug 7, 2009
Will & Jada new school head’s Scientology connection — Radar Online
Type: Press
Source:
Radar Online The new head of superstar Will Smith’s New Village Leadership Academy is a Scientologist, RadarOnline.com can reveal. On Wednesday we broke the story that Jada had fired the original hire after her position became “untenable” due to her disagreement with the Study Tech curriculum devised by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.
Click here for all the details behind the firing
Jada called Jacqueline Olivier to inform her of their decision and the couple filled the position at the private school in ...
Aug 6, 2009
Applied Scholastics and new study technology — Vanguard (Nigeria)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Emmanuel Edukugho Source:
Vanguard (Nigeria) The bane of our educational system is that pupils and students study to pass examinations and not learning to understand and apply knowledge practically and productively. Many people think that they study so they can pass a test. But that is not what learning is about.
That is not why you study. You study to use what you have learned.
Applied scholastics recognises the challenges that teachers and lecturers face in teaching their students. Pressures from school managements, parents, governments, students, ...
Aug 5, 2009
Will and Jada fire head of their school — Radar Online
Type: Press
Source:
Radar Online Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith have fired the head of their controversial private school The New Village Leadership Academy, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively. Jacqueline Olivier - the woman the famous husband and wife enlisted to set up their Calabasas campus - was axed from her $200,000 a year position via a telephone call from the Matrix actress. "Jada phoned Jaqueline and told her that they had 'decided to go in another direction' with the school,” an insider told ...
Jun 10, 2009
Study Technology: Is it the answer to Ja's learning problems? — Jamaica Gleaner
Type: Press
Author(s):
Carl Gilchrist Source:
Jamaica Gleaner A decades-old teaching concept developed by scientology founder, the late L. Ron Hubbard, which appears to guarantee increased learning when applied correctly, has reached Jamaica, after having made an impact in more than 70 countries. Hubbard, who died in January 1986, developed a revolutionary concept called Study Technology, in the early 1960s, after his investigations into what was causing the decline in learning abilities of his students. In 1972, based on Hubbard's concept, Applied Scholastics International (ASI), a non-profit, public benefit ...
Apr 12, 2009
Suri Cruise to start five-days-a-week Scientology training — Daily Mail (UK)More: dailymail.co.uk
Type: Press
Author(s):
Katie Nicholl Source:
Daily Mail (UK) Tom and Katie Cruise’s doll-like daughter Suri is to be trained in Scientology after her third birthday this week. The Cruises are sending their daughter five days a week to the Church of Scientology’s £6,000-a-year New Village Academy in Los Angeles, launched last year by Tom’s friend, fellow actor Will Smith. It is staffed by trained Scientologists and lists ‘study technology’ as a key curricular focus. ‘The children have a lot of responsibilities from a very young age,’ says a source. ...
Apr 11, 2009
Scientology cult targets Haiti for slave labor
Type: Press
The Scientology organization has increasingly targeted poor countries such as Haiti in its recruitment efforts. Why would this money-hungry crime-cult be interested in one of the world’s poorest countries? The answer: Because they want to bring Haitians in to the USA on "religious worker" visas to serve as unpaid laborers. Quoting at length from Scientology-affiliated newspaper the
Tampa Bay Informer : Haiti, with its 75% unemployment rate, $15-$20.00 average income per week, 70% illiteracy, 10,000+ homeless in the capital and thousands ...
Mar 1, 2009
Controversial church linked to tutors on state list — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Type: Press
Author(s):
Cameron McWhirter ,
Heather Vogell Source:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution A tutoring agency in Cobb County with ties to the Church of Scientology has drawn critics along with federal dollars. Applied Scholastics pledges to offer only secular lessons. But critics who lodged four complaints last year against the nonprofit — which uses Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s teachings — wrote they feared it wouldn’t keep ideology out of the classroom. State education officials began an annual inspection in February and will observe the group’s tutoring this month. The review will include ...
Jan 25, 2009
Claire Headley v. CSI, RTC — realitybasedcommunity.net
Dec 22, 2008
Scientology refuseniks sue over compulsory workplace courses / Diskeeper fights religious discrimination suit — The Register (UK)
Oct 6, 2008
Anonymous plans zombie Scientology protest — The Register (UK)
Sep 18, 2008
Scientology link at Montessori school alarms parents — CBC
Type: Press
Source:
CBC Some parents are upset with a study method introduced by a Montessori school in northwest Toronto, which they say has its roots in the Church of Scientology. Parents said the owner of the Bambolino Montessori Academy, a private school, told parents last week that it was introducing a new learning method called applied scholastics. Janice Blundon said parents like her weren't given a choice when the dean at her son's school told them they'd be implementing the study technique. "I let ...
Sep 16, 2008
Will Smith Clears the air — FOX News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Roger Friedman Source:
FOX News This column was the first to report that Will Smith donated money to the Church of Scientology’s LEAP program in 2006.
Then came lots of talk: Will and Jada hanging out with Tom Cruise, super Scientologist, didn’t help. The Smith kids were also getting home-schooled, which put them in line with Cruise, John Travolta and others.
This year, news broke that Will had funded a school in suburban Los Angeles that used one of Scientology’s study programs. It seemed like Will ...
Sep 13, 2008
Will Smith: I am not a Scientologist — Monsters and Critics
Type: Press
Author(s):
Stone Martindale Source:
Monsters and Critics Calabasas, CA. - On this past Monday September 8th, actor Will Smith met with members of Anonymous outside of New Village Leadership Academy, the private school he founded with his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith. "I am not a Scientologist," Smith told Anonymous in response to concerns that his new school would be used as an indoctrination tool for the Church of Scientology. Smith's alleged involvement in Scientology was fueled by his public friendship with actor Tom Cruise and the couple's large donations ...
Sep 4, 2008
Anonymous fights Scientology in schools // We don't need no... — The Register (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Leyden Source:
The Register (UK) The Anonymous collective has announced a new phase in its protests against the Church of Scientology, targeting the alleged mistreatment of youngsters by Scientologists. Operation: School's Closed is due to take place on 13 September and will involve a wave of protests against the "Church of Scientology management, its attempts to infiltrate schools, and its internal exploitation of children". The planned demos follow seven previous protest days outside Scientology centres around the world, each with a particular theme. The Church of ...
Sep 4, 2008
Will Smith targeted by anti-Scientology group — Arizona Republic
Type: Press
Source:
Arizona Republic On Wednesday morning Anonymous activists picketed outside the New Village Academy private school in Calabasas, California, which is funded by Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, who is a follower of Scientology. Protestors - dressed in Guy Fawkes masks - held up placards emblazoned with the words 'Scientology disconnects families' and 'what church stalks critics? Scientology'. Passing children on their way to the nearby Arthur E. Wright Middle School shouted at several people, believed to be Scientologist investigators, who ...
Aug 17, 2008
Isaac Hayes…The US mega star with Ghanaian royal blood — Modern Ghana
Type: Press
Source:
Modern Ghana The news of the sudden death of Isaac Hayes was shocking to many Ghanaians all over the world. The legendary Grammy and Oscar winning US mega musician and entertainer is also known in Ghana as Nene Katey Ocansey I, Nkosuoehne (Chief for Development) of the Ada Traditional Area and a beloved member of the Ocansey Royal Family. He co-founded the Nene Katey Ocansey I Learning and Technology (NekoTech) Center of Excellence in Ada, Ghana, with Princess Asie Ocansey of Ada. They ...
Aug 11, 2008
Scientology's Soul Man — Washington Post
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Waters Source:
Washington Post Thank goodness Isaac Hayes wrote "Soul Man" before he became a Scientologist. Whatever would have become of Sam and Dave or the Blues Brothers if they had belted out a song called "Thetan Man"?
According to beliefs promoted by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, the immortal soul – or "thetan" – passes from one body to the next through reincarnations over trillions of years. When a person dies, Hubbard said, the thetan goes to a landing station on Venus where it ...
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