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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

...teenagers expelled from school--students no longer...welcome in the public school classroom. Such...of dropping out of school" by school officials...school as a viable choice. In this chapter...of the Center for Alternative Learning, notes...
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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

...geography, and every school in America will ensure...how the Sudbury Valley School model, although rejecting...perhaps, in practice , the school has an individualistic...commitment to freedom of choice and noncoercion is an expression of the schools challenge to prevailing...
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The School Choice Hoax: Fixing America's Schools

Book by Ronald G. Corwin, E. Joseph Schneider; Praeger, 2005

Subjects:

Charter Schools--United States, Educational Vouchers--United States, School Choice--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Many schools have outdated textbooks...are concentrated in schools that primarily serve...how will the current school choice approaches help? Few...charters or private schools offer the kind of alternative education programs...
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Schools, Markets and Choice Policies

Book by Stephen Gorard, Chris Taylor, John Fitz; RoutledgeFalmer, 2003

Subjects:

School Choice--England, School Choice--Wales, Schools--England, Schools--Wales

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...and presents the choice of an alternative school as a less...select another school are still required...their catchment school, and allows them...entitlement area school will be a form...middle or high schools. For parents wishing...
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The Great School Debate: Choice, Vouchers, and Charters

Book by Thomas L. Good, Jennifer S. Braden; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000

Subjects:

Charter Schools--United States, Education--United States--Evaluation, Educational Vouchers--United States, Privatization In Education--United States, School Choice--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...with permissive choice have undermined...who attack public schools include citizens...Critics of public schools claim that the...in the form of alternative school choice as a necessary...inject American schools with the vigor...

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Home Schooling: An Alternative School Choice

Journal article by Robert G. Houston Jr., Eugenia F. Toma; Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 69, 2003

Subjects:

Home schooling--Research, Home schooling--Statistics

Collections: Entire Library

...schooling: an alternative school choice. by Robert...on public schools are changing...regarding school enrollment...reasons. The choices outside the...that home schools and therefore...considers the school type option...the school alternative only if the...from that choice is greater...of the k alternatives. Stated...
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Four Alternative Futures for Education in the United States: It's Our Choice

Journal article by Robert J. Sternberg; School Psychology Review, Vol. 33, 2004

Subjects:

Education and state--Forecasts and trends, Education policy--Forecasts and trends, United States--Education policy

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

Four Alternative Futures for Education...States: Its Our Choice. by Robert J...one should our schools aspire to? One...on a test in school or on the larger...steps not just in school problems, but...elementary and high schools. They found...offer children choices, but giving...reported me to the school authorities...
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Intellectual Indignation: Getting at the Roots of Student Resistance in an Alternative High School Program

Journal article by Dia N.R. Sekayi; Education, Vol. 122, 2001

Subjects:

Alternative education--Analysis, High schools--Study and teaching, Students--Psychological aspects

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...resistance in an alternative high school program...class of the high schools feeder elementary...of Baldwin High School. Of the four categories...challenge. The first school year ended with...studying an alternative school, one of the first...that alternative schools "must involve choice and they must be...
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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

...list the school on job applications...employed. If alternative schools are to present true alternatives to the larger school setting...traditional schools, programs...types of alternative programs. Alternatives are needed...middle school, and high...
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"Hear My Voice:" Alternative High School Students' Perceptions and Implications for School Change

Journal article by Patrice de La Ossa; American Secondary Education, Vol. 34, 2005

Subjects:

Alternative education, Children & youth, Data analysis, Documentary films, Educational psychology, Learning, Magnet schools, Parents & parenting, Qualitative research, School attendance, School environment, Secondary school students, Studies

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...choose to be in the alternative school; some however were...students are placed in schools in the conventional high school programs as well...alternative high schools. Students were not...would be considered choice schools and the students...

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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

...in smaller schools with low...studies for alternative school programs...alternative schools using quasi...schools of choice that have...sample. Other alternative schools were considered...the SFAS in school characteristics...similar.This choice allowed for...
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The Viable Alternative: Handhelds; Why the Personal Computer of Choice in K-12 Ought to Fit in a Student's Palm

Magazine article by Cathleen A. Norris, Elliot M. Soloway; School Administrator, Vol. 60, April 2003

Subjects:

Computers, Education--Technology application, Hand-held computers--Usage, Hand-held terminals, Personal digital assistants--Usage, Technology--Usage

Collections: Education, Entire Library

The viable alternative: handhelds...personal computer of choice in K-12 ought...supportive school/district administration...clearly K-12 schools in the United...most part, our schools have not achieved...pervasive in K-12 schools, textbook publishers...the 55 million school-age children...
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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

...for an Africentric Alternative School by Grace-Edward...the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) passed...Africentric Alternative School in the public education...policy on alternative schools, promoting choice in curriculum and...
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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

...example, special schools or programs for...familiar with the alternative schools available. Each...information that enables school users to make intelligent choices. In the system...here, individual schools would clearly be...
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Education out of a Hat: Philip Collins Proposes an Alternative to the Notorious "Postcode Lottery" That Determines Where Your Child Goes to School: A Straightforward Ballot

Magazine article by Philip Collins; New Statesman, Vol. 133, July 5, 2004

Subjects:

School choice, School, Choice of

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...able to choose any school they wanted. The only constraint on this choice would be that the...applications were in, all schools with more first preferences...their second-choice school. Where schools get more second choices than they have remaining...

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District 59 Board Split on Proposal for Alternative 'School of Choice'

Newspaper article by Vince Galloro; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 14, 2000

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

...on Proposal for Alternative School of Choice. by Vince Galloro...Grove Township school board was sharply...an alternative school in District 59...programs. The school is used now as...for elementary schools that are being...
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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. At a school board work...equity between schools and access...participate in school choice. The majority...impact of alternative schools and...attending that school. The implication...exercising choice at a much...neighborhood schools browner and...
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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

...Superintendent Assess Alternative Schools Review...the neighborhood schools with which the...staff at those schools cited competition...that alternative schools first deserved...Hillside, Family School and even Magnet...the neighborhood school - has been convinced...for alternative schools after this year...something sacred about choice and alternative...
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Alternative School Serves Wide Range of Needs

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), March 2, 2008

Subjects:

School districts

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

Alternative School Serves Wide Range of Needs...Guard Eastside Elementary School is one of the Eugene School Districts finest schools and has been a cornerstone of its school choice system for more than 35 years...
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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

Keep Alternative Schools at...neighborhood schools would only...alternative schools is the diversification...the Eugene School District...allows parent choice and actively...make the alternative program like...to offer a school bus service...luxury for the schools that have...alternative school such as Buena...

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Charter School

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

CHARTER SCHOOL alternative type of American...regulations. A charter school has a greater degree...traditional public school, and students attend it by choice. Each school is granted a renewable...The aim of these schools is to increase learning...

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