The PCR Academy™: from GED to PhD™
Overview: This program is intended continually to develop and provide affordable access to innovative, primary, secondary and higher education, entrepreneurship, business and professional training, both online and in classrooms. The goal for this program is to address the severe lack of quality educational resources for people with criminal records in and outside of prisons, and of course, the cost of such resources even if available. The premise of this program is that we can partner and collaborate with accredited institutions or develop affordable, accreditable courses at existing institutions of higher learning that are tailor made for people with criminal records.
Resources, Programs and Initiatives:
FREE GED PREP COURSE AND PRACTICE TESTS
Here you will find a completely free GED online preparation course, as well as practice tests, which can help you pass your GED exams and take the next step toward college or a new career. Developed by experienced instructors, this 200-page course covers all of the key points of the GED test. It is comparable to some GED study guides which cost twenty dollars or more at bookstores or online.
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If you want to prepare for your GED test, this online GED class provides valuable educational information regarding all of the five main topic areas:
The free GED test prep course and free practice tests are designed for people with a ninth-grade level of education or higher, and provide solid preparation in the most important test topics, including many helpful tips and strategies. Special attention is paid to GED math.
The entire online class is available now to anyone who is ready to commit time and energy in preparation for their GED testing. Whether an individual heading for a career, a college career, a home school student, or just someone interested in an online course or practice exams, this program is for you!
OPEN LIBRARY READ OVER 1 MILLION FREE E-BOOKS The World’s classic literature at your fingertips.
Online University empowers people by providing high quality resources, across the spectrum of academic disciplines, that enable people to further educate themselves. Here you can have access to premium educational materials offered in an informal online education; concise resources that effectively illuminate a wide variety of topics, while simultaneously presenting highly valuable sources of information.
(a) Critical Thinking is Critical™ and Great Books in Prison™, (b) Civic Engagement for Community Service™
Critical Thinking is Critical™ and Great Books in Prison™
Quality critical thinking is a key component of every success, and its lack is at the root of most failures. We generally need to know far fewer answers than we need the ability to ask excellent questions. This program is designed to insure that critical thinking is an integral component of all other Institute programming, so that we are not only teaching critical thinking but we are practicing critical thinking in all we do.
The Institute’s Coordinator of “Critical Thinking is Critical™” will be partly responsible, among other things, for administration of our Great Books™ in Prison series, which is intended as our multi-chapter, multi-region book group. In our book groups, to discuss and analyze the literature we read together, we will employ the Socratic “Shared Inquiry Method,” as developed and provided by The Great Books Foundation, The Coordinator will also be responsible for recruiting and facilitating the training of qualified volunteers as discussion leaders for the Great Books in Prison discussion groups.
As an integral part of the Institute’s program, Critical Thinking is Critical,™ the goal of Great Books™ in Prison is to expand beyond prison walls the already very successful Great Books prison initiatives, so that at least some of the many millions of American people with criminal records can benefit from this valuable form of free education. It’s well known that in the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s before huge cuts in prison education funding, reductions in recidivism could be linked in part directly to prison education. We feel the Institute can play a vital role in the dissemination of education and positive mental health messages with Great Books in Prison. Our initial Great Books in Prison discussion group is planned for the Dwight Correctional Facility in the Illinois Department of Corrections.
Civic Engagement for Community Service™
Voter Registration, Community Organizing, and Public Interest Lobbying and Advocacy Training. We will partner with probation departments to enlist probationers who need community service hours to register people with criminal records and/or their families to vote, and will train qualified people with criminal records as lobbyists and grass roots advocates.
