Welcome
to Asora's®
Stellar Schools Project
Advancing
the Goal of Ending Education as We Know
It
The
Asora® design of
Stellar Schools has, among other things, an instructional
format based on methods, technologies, content, and
organizational structures known to work in real "brick
& mortar" schools:
[1] Superior
quality online instruction from expert teachers and
professors. But we don't discard the books to go online.
[2] Tutoring by teachers, teaching assistants and advanced
students.
[3] Self-paced mastery learning environment that fosters
early completion of studies.
[4] A rigorous curriculum inspired by and mostly drawn
from:
The Core
Knowledge Sequence
The
Advanced Math & Science Academy (AMSA)
The Hillsdale Academy
Trinity-Pawling School Economics Curriculum
Advance Placement Courses
International Baccalaureate Requirements
[5] Structured
to eliminate the evils of social
promotion.
[6] A licensing
or franchising network is used to provide:
Economies
of scale
An optimal distribution of effort
A superior method for raising funds or capital
Licensing is the non-profit analogue of
franchising
[7] The
non-profit Stellar Schools Development Corporation (SSDC)
will likely undertake the R & D function as well as the
operation of non-profit schools.
[8] Our new for-profit company, Asora®
Education
Enterprises, (replacing the Stellar Schools Company) will
adopt these developments and use them in its forthcoming
franchising networks of schools as well as to provide other
services within its core competencies.
Asora® is currently
revising its business plan to significantly accelerate the
development of its Stellar Schools beyond what had been
contemplated in its earlier planning.
Want
An Introduction?
(You may wish to skip the introduction and go directly to
descriptions of our services by clicking on:
Achievement Test
Services or
Brokerage for
Online Courseware.)
To get started, you may wish to look at our very
short, The Gist of It description
of Asora's Stellar Schools project. To see what is the
latest news about Stellar Schools just come to our
link: What's New? Or you may
be interested in applications to Catholic
Education, where
possible collaborations are discussed.
Given the relative dearth of Protestant and other sectarian
schools, there may be an even greater need for improved
schools among those faiths. Thus we suggest they consider
how Asora's Stellar Schools model might benefit them on
our Protestant
Education Etc. page.
For an introduction to the educational aspects of Stellar
Schools you can review Stellar Schools
Essentials. And to
view a Web based PowerPoint driven video demonstration
of prototypical lectures:
Click Algebra Courseware
Examples for our
Algebra 1 example.
Or click Physics
Courseware Examples for our more
recent- and elaborate- example for our Physics With
Calculus course.
We recently presented many of these ideas to a European
audience where our CEO spoke at a symposium of physicists.
You can view/hear this minimally technical speech,
Self-Paced, Online
Physics Instruction, from
within our physics
pages.
For those of you who might be interested in joining this or
a similar effort you can visit our Want to be an
Asora®
Player?
section.
There we also feature the report, The Rationale and
Motivation for Stellar Schools.
While this
report's intended primary audience is potential
participants (donors, investors and workers), we believe
that others may find it interesting as well. We provide
the report's text as well as a shorter video version
that can be viewed
from this
website.
Other information is available from our downloadable
reports. Those that are more focused on public policy and
school reform can be accessed from our Reports on Reform
area.
All of Asora®'s other
downloadable reports emphasize our development plans and
include our detailed business plan- which is also has some
emphasis on educational public policy issues. They can be
accessed from our Reports on
Development page.
Check out the Asora® staff's
Qualifications
by means of
their resumes and biographies. Currently it is a staff
of three.
Or for more information send your requests and
questions to us by using the Contact Us link.