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1992: On April 1, DePelchin Children's Center merges with Houston Child Guidance Center, which represents a major expansion for DePelchin in the field of mental health. The Houston Child Guidance Center, founded by Ima Hogg in 1929, was a pioneer of mental health services because it offered an alternative to hospitalization.
Facing History & Ourselves is a global non-profit organization founded in 1976. [1] The organization's mission is to "use lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate." [2] The organization is based in Boston, Massachusetts, with 180 staff members in the main office and in other U.S. states. [3]
Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes (OLLI) offer noncredit courses with no assignments or grades to adults over age 50. Since 2001, philanthropist Bernard Osher has made grants from the Bernard Osher Foundation to launch OLLI programs at 120 universities and colleges throughout the United States.
2. Click Online Classes in the left hand navigation or Fitness to watch classes related to that topic. 3. A list of categories will appear under the featured video on the AOL online classes page. Click a category or scroll down the page to view class topics. 4. Click an image to watch a class.
With funding from the U.S. Department of Education under the Office of Innovation and Improvement, Teachinghistory.org, also known as the National History Education Clearinghouse, was developed through a collaboration between the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the Stanford History Education Group at Stanford University.
The school serves grades 9-12 and is part of the Houston Independent School District. [5] It is the only High School Vanguard Program in HISD, meaning that all students are labelled as gifted and talented by testing and the school has students take all Advanced Placement core classes as part of its curriculum.
As of March 2009, over 11,000 Houston-area residents have taken 20 or more courses from LLU. Of those repeat students, more than 1,200 have taken 50 classes. The large student base and word-of-mouth promotion contribute to LLU's visibility in the greater Houston community.
The greater Houston area is home to a large homeschooling community with an estimated 40 to 50 thousand homeschooled students, based on 300,000 homeschool students in Texas [28] and 2.04 million in the U.S. [29] Over 100 organizations, support groups, and co-ops provide classes and resources for homeschool families. [30]