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Classic Tutor Launches.


Faith Based Pre-K Curriculum Built on Classical Education Model

FRANKLIN, Tenn. -- Classic Tutor TUTOR - A Scripting language on PLATO systems from CDC.

["The TUTOR Language", Bruce Sherwood, Control Data, 1977].
, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

LLC - Logical Link Control
., today announced the business formation and product launch of Classic Tutor Curriculum. Classic Tutor is a provider of Pre-K through 12th grade lesson plans designed for parents and educators. It is delivered through the Internet Internet

Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the
 and in print. Privately held, Classic Tutor was developed over many years by a classically trained and educated, instructor. Gregg Gregg can refer to:
  • The forename, as in "Gregg Van Leuven": see (Greg)
  • The surname, as in "Judd Gregg": see Gregg (surname)
  • John Robert Gregg, the inventor of Gregg shorthand: see John Robert Gregg
 Hodge, President and Founder of Classic Tutor, is the founder of the Kilns Study Center out of which Classic Tutor was born. The Kilns Study Center is a local tutoring program built on the same principles as Classic Tutor.

"We are building a whole new brand in the classical education industry through Classic Tutor," said Gregg Hodge, president and founder of Classic Tutor. "We believe there is a significant opportunity to create a competitive advantage for students beginning at age 2 and lasting throughout their lives by putting the content of this product in the hands of teachers and involved care-givers," he added.

Classic Tutor has been developed out of a need for a single, comprehensive, affordable, easy to use system with materials that parents and teachers can readily access to teach students with a flexible yet faithful classical orientation.

The core curriculum is taught around four historical eras typical to the classical model: Ancients, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern. The four historical eras inform all subjects of study and are conveniently divided into 32 lessons per quarter. The curriculum is offered sequentially from ages one to five and grade levels Kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be  through High School.

Classic Tutor is a learning system inspired by the life and works of C.S. Lewis and an urgent need for truth, wisdom, virtue, and service to be highlighted as educational goals for today's children Today's Children was the first nationally syndicated radio soap opera in the United States. Created and written by Irna Phillips, it aired from flagship station WMAQ in Chicago from 1932 to 1938, and later in national syndication (without the involvement of WMAQ) from 1943 . Classic Tutor is an e-learning (Electronic-LEARNING) An umbrella term for providing computer instruction (courseware) online over the public Internet, private distance learning networks or inhouse via an intranet. See CBT.  system conceived and built around these values. Today, there are nearly 64 lesson plans included in the annual subscription for $9.95.
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