The Master Learners Program

World Literacy Crusade takes a comprehensive approach to learning through the Master Learners Program, which teaches literacy, communication skills and how to formulate one’s own personal values for success in life. Using the revolutionary Study Technology, a study method developed by L. Ron Hubbard, and the Smart Way phonics and language arts program, the World Literacy Crusade can teach a child of any age to read and write in as little as three months.

Statistics show that we remember 90% of what we teach to others and only 10% of what is lectured to us; this highly interactive program allows children to be both student and teacher of his or her peers. Smart Way Phonics is the only language skills program which incorporates all nine of the crucial criteria for effective literacy improvement of the National Reading Panel, a group created by request of Congress to assess the effectiveness of various approaches used to teach children to read. The successes of the program in teaching reading and responsibility to children and adolescents are extensive.

Since 1992 WLC has delivered the Master Learners Program to more than 13,000 individuals. After just three months of instruction, 57% of program participants increased their reading aptitude by an average of 2.5 grade levels, according to a 2003 assessment.

Seventy-nine percent of the adolescents associated with gangs and drugs who complete our program no longer participate in illegal activities and have not had a subsequent arrest.