Curriculum
ACE provides annual one-day training sessions for administrators. These are provided in locations around the United States. The sessions focus on understanding and properly implementing the ACE program. For Learning Center Supervisors a four-day workshop is provided annually. The workshop is organized like an ACE classroom, allowing the supervisor to experience the ACE system as a student and learn how to implement the system. According to the curriculum section on its website, the ACE “program is individualized and nongraded” and “designed to allow students to work at their own level of achievement”. ACE states that its “core curriculum is an individualized, Biblically-based, character-building curriculum package”. The material for the classes has an emphasis reflecting the Christian ideas and principles of the company. The program allows students to advance through high school. The Accelerated Christian Education curriculum is based on a series of workbooks called PACEs (Packets of Accelerated Christian Education). Each subject has 12 PACEs per grade level. The basic subjects of ACE are mathematics, English, science, social studies and word building (spelling and word usage). Test keys are published for corresponding PACEs.
A new student starting the ACE system is given a placement test, which assesses ability in the five areas with corresponding subjects. The test results then place the student at appropriate levels by subject. Students are required to set daily goals for work completion and are generally expected to finish a given PACE within three weeks. Students are given reviews at certain points in a PACE and a test at its culmination. The passing score for the test is 80% correct. Students who fail must retake the PACE until they pass.
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