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A School for Healing: Alternative Strategies for Teaching At-Risk Students

Book by Rosa L. Kennedy, Jerome H. Morton; Peter Lang, 1999

Subjects:

Alternative Schools--United States--Case Studies, High School Dropouts--Education--United States--Case Studies, Socially Handicapped Youth--Education--United States--Case Studies

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...environment that mixes the public school population with the alternative learning population. Expected...too disruptive to the regular school program for both programs to...one roof. Since the typical school for healing is in a self-contained...
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Schools for Growth: Radical Alternatives to Current Educational Models

Book by Lois Holzman; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997

Subjects:

Alternative Education--United States--Case Studies, Alternative Schools--United States--Case Studies, Developmental Psychology--United States--Case Studies, Learning, Psychology Of--Case Studies

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...beginning of the American public school system there have always been...participate and instead created alternative schools and alternatives to schools, such as homeschooling. The oldest alternative school still in existence dates back...
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Private Schools and the Public Good: Policy Alternatives for the Eighties

Book by Edward McGlynn Gaffney Jr.; University of Notre Dame Press, 1981

Subjects:

Private Schools--United States--Congresses

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...need for assistance with school costs is neither restricted...select the most expensive school. Putting a ceiling on the...isnt generous, many desired schools will be out of the reach of...encourages the family to select a school at that limit rather than...contribution? At least three alternatives are worth considering. a...
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Alternatives in Education: Critical Pedagogy for Disaffected Youth

Book by Greg S. Goodman; Peter Lang, 1999

Subjects:

Alternative Education--United States--Case Studies, Alternative Schools--United States--Case Studies, Critical Pedagogy--United States--Case Studies, Problem Youth--Education--United States--Case Studies

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...of the local public school. More and more...students from the public schools and placink them in alternative institutions. For...student to a private school is made out of religious...find an alternative school that meets their needs...feel that there is an alternative choice. From that...Educational Options and Alternatives in Washington State...
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High Schools in Crisis: What Every Parent Should Know

Book by Ellen Hall, Richard Handley; Praeger, 2004

Subjects:

Alternative Schools--United States, Education, Secondary--Parent Participation--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...big role in public school as well starting private alternatives in the following ways...contract with public schools to provide such afterschool...schools to provide alternative high schools. Private companies...run alternative high schools funded by the public school system (twenty-two...

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A Kappan Special Section on Alternative Schools: Fear of Success? Ten Ways Alternative Schools Pull Their Punches

Journal article by Tom Gregory; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 82, 2001

Subjects:

Alternative education--Analysis, Alternative schools--Management, School improvement programs--Analysis

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...information about an alternative school for those students...conventional schools to publicize alternatives. If large...of entry. Alternative schools sometimes have...Enrollment in the school is often seen...another school. Alternatives solve a problem...comprehensive high schools. When shaping...graduate from an alternative school. As a result...policies, alternatives must occasionally...
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A Kappan Special Section on Alternative Schools: Reflections of an Alternative School Administrator

Journal article by Jay Mcgee; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 82, 2001

Subjects:

Alternative education--Management, Alternative schools--Officials and employees, School administrators--Attitudes

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...not to list the school on job applications...be employed. If alternative schools are to present true alternatives to the larger school setting, if they...schools, traditional schools, programs for students...many other types of alternative programs. Alternatives are needed for elementary, middle school, and high school...
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Academic Achievement, Employment, Age and Gender and Students' Experience of Alternative School

Journal article by Senel Poyrazli, Laura Ferrer-Wreder, Denise G. Meister, Larry Forthun, J. Doug Coatsworth, Kamini Maraj Grahame; Adolescence, Vol. 43, 2008

Subjects:

Academic achievement--Research, Alternative schools--Influence, Employment--Research, Students--Education, Students--Psychological aspects

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...in a high school. Social Work...Who attends alternative high schools? The High School Journal...Chicagos After School Matters...effective alternatives for disruptive...1982). Alternative schools for troublesome...
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A Kappan Special Section on Alternative Schools: Changing the Odds for Young People - Next Steps for Alternative Education

Journal article by Jerry Conrath; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 82, 2001

Subjects:

Alternative education--Social aspects, Alternative schools--Management, School improvement programs--Social aspects

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Special Section on Alternative Schools: Changing the Odds...in education, and school should be an arena...public alternative schools begin the necessary...regarded. Can public alternative schools begin the necessary...referrals, and who attend school irregularly do not...
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The Efficacy of CWPT Used in Secondary Alternative School Classrooms with Small Teacher/pupil Ratios and Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

Journal article by Lisa J. Bowman-Perrott, Charles R. Greenwood, Yolanda Tapia; Education & Treatment of Children, Vol. 30, 2007

Subjects:

Alternative schools--Services, Disabled students--Evaluation, Peer teaching--Usage, Peer-group tutoring of students--Usage

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Setting Both schools are located in...part of Bonner Alternative School, which serves...classrooms. Preventing School Failure, 40...2002). Public alternative schools and programs for...A. (1994). Alternative schools: The state of...Reducing violence in school and the community...

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An Alternative School Voucher System

Magazine article by Russell L. Ackoff; Technos: Quarterly for Education and Technology, Vol. 10, Spring 2001

Subjects:

Alternative schools--Management, Education--Management, Educational vouchers--Management

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...specialization. For example, special schools or programs for retarded or...to become familiar with the alternative schools available. Each community...provide information that enables school users to make intelligent...described here, individual schools would clearly be more responsive...
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Alternative Schooling for Troubled Youth in Rural Communities

Magazine article by Eugene P. Linton; School Administrator, Vol. 57, February 2000

Subjects:

Alternative schools--Planning, Education, Rural--Management, School management and organization--Analysis, Schools--Planning

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Alternative Schooling for Troubled...in traditional high schools is becoming more difficult...rural America, where school administrators are faced...county in the state), school districts are experiencing...fit in the traditional school setting. Many of the...these students, our schools have joined forces with...
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Montessori Learning Aid: Alternative School Shows Impact on Poor Children

Magazine article by B. Bower; Science News, Vol. 170, September 30, 2006

Subjects:

Alternative schools--Services, Else-Quest, Nicole--Services, Lillard, Angeline--Services, Montessori method of education--Forecasts and trends, Montessori method--Forecasts and trends, Poor children--Educational aspects

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Montessori Learning Aid: Alternative School Shows Impact on Poor...started an innovative school for children 4 to 7...those produced by other schools. By the end of kindergarten...at public and private schools on standardized math...the end of elementary school, 12-year-old Montessori...
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Making the Case for an Africentric Alternative School

Magazine article by Grace-Edward Galabuzi; Our Schools, Our Selves, Vol. 17, Spring 2008

Subjects:

Alternative education, Black students, School systems, Toronto District School Board, Toronto Ontario Canada

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...only school or even a Black school, but a school with an Africentric curriculum...anyone who wants to attend such a school and qualifies based on transparent...criteria - not unlike all other alternative schools. It will have teachers of all...
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The Effectiveness of a Solution-focused, Public Alternative School for Dropout Prevention and Retrieval

Magazine article by Cynthia Franklin, Calvin L. Streeter, Johnny S. Kim, Stephen J. Tripodi; Children & Schools, Vol. 29, July 2007

Subjects:

Alternative education, Data bases, Effectiveness studies, Extracurricular activities, Intervention, Public schools, School districts, School dropouts, Secondary school students, Social workers, Teachers, Vocational education

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...2000). One public school approach that has...preventing high school dropout is alternative schools for at-risk students...study can do so. School policymakers and...modified criteria for alternative schools and re-evaluating...

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School Pilot Scheme Offers Face-to-Face Counselling and Alternative Therapies to Stressed-Out Pupils

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), June 9, 2007

Subjects:

Alternative medicine, Stress management

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

School Pilot Scheme Offers Face-to-Face Counselling and Alternative Therapies to Stressed...alternative therapies at school to help them deal with...running at five secondary schools as well as primary school after-school clubs in...
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'Say No to AV and Spend the Money on Hospitals and Our Schools' the Alternative Vote System Is a Politician's Trick the People of Wales Should Avoid, Writes Jane Kennedy

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), February 10, 2011

Subjects:

Hospitals--Political aspects, Schools--Political aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the Money on Hospitals and Our Schools the Alternative Vote System Is a Politicians...FPTP), or switch to the Alternative Vote (AV). The referendum...that the money should go to schools and hospitals, or bringing...
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School Board, Superintendent Assess Alternative Schools Review

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), January 19, 2006

Subjects:

School superintendents

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

School Board, Superintendent Assess Alternative Schools Review. Byline...alternative elementary schools, the Eugene School Board on Wednesday...the neighborhood school - has been convinced...level caps for alternative schools after this year...
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Keep Alternative Schools at the Heart of Education Options

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), November 26, 2010

Subjects:

Instructional materials, School districts, Teaching--Equipment and supplies

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...student diversity within schools. In other districts, a primary function of alternative schools is the diversification...applies in the Eugene School District. Buena Vista...expand them, including alternative schools. Alternative language...follow them, into the school district that would...
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Alternative Schools Breed Inequity

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), December 26, 2010

Subjects:

School districts

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...students) while alternative schools do not." Schools...are not. At a school board work session...neighborhood schools. It is the only instance where an alternative school is more integrated...neighborhood schools. Only 22.8...

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Sembene, Ousmane

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...regarded as the father of sub-Saharan African cinema. He left school at 15 and after being drafted into the French Army in 1939...Ousmane Sembene (1996); D. Murphy, Sembene: Imagining Alternatives in Film and Fiction (2001...

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