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Accelerated Christian Education is an American educational products company founded in 1970 by Dr. Donald R. Howard which produces the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) school curriculum. As of September 2013 ACE serves over 6,000 schools in 145 countries. The company is based in Hendersonville, Tennessee (suburban Nashville), with their distribution center located in Lewisville, Texas (in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex). It lists its principles in a "statement of faith" which declares the belief that the Bible is literally true. ==History== Accelerated Christian Education was founded in 1970 by Donald and Esther Howard. They set about developing a biblically literalist educational curriculum that was adopted by a number of private Christian schools. He traveled extensively to promote ACE schools, viewing the establishment of ACE schools around the world as a new form of missions — he called it educational missions. The Howards opened the first school to use the ACE program in Garland, Texas.〔 They started with 45 students. By 1971, they had added six new schools.〔 By 1980 there were over 3,000 Christian Schools in the United States associated with ACE, reaching a peak of 8,000 during the 1980s. In 1996 ACE opened a three-story facility in Lewisville, Texas to handle its growing operations.〔 In 1997, Esther took over control of ACE. In 2007 ACE moved its corporate offices to Hendersonville, Tennessee.〔 The Lewisville facility remains as ACE's distribution center. Esther Howard remains as ACE's President, Duane Howard (one of their sons) currently serves as Vice President.〔http://www.aceministries.com/curriculum/?content=presentingACE〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Accelerated Christian Education」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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