[PDF] Public Alternative School Practice eBook

Author : Jane Sloan Lohmann
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Alternative education
ISBN :

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This embedded case study collects and analyzes the perspectives of both youth and adults at one public alternative high school for youth at risk of school failure and aims to investigate the program practices and structures that promote school engagement and connectedness. Informed by bodies of literature from the fields of school engagement, school connectedness, and public alternative schools for high-risk youth, I define school engagement as the nature and quality of student participation with regard to the school's purpose, student attendance, and academic engagement; and school connectedness as the experiences that youth and adults associate with belonging and agency. The study focuses on the individual, the school and their intersections, as well as both the interpersonal and academic dimensions of the school experience. The five primary findings reflect the programs and practices that support engagement and connectedness at one public alternative high school. These include: (a) schools must incorporate a clearly defined purpose and articulated target population; (b) strong caring, respectful and reciprocal relationships are an essential component of supporting students' renewed relationships to learning and schooling; (c) students and adults must have opportunities for human to human connection, and both adults and youth benefit from flexible roles; (d) the concept of "easy" does not necessarily connote simple; rather, it describes the participants' experience of an environment that supports increased engagement, connectedness and success; and (e) high expectations and high support cannot be mutually exclusive, though the two can be difficult to maintain equally given the external (demands on schools) and internal (student needs) pressures.

Author : Franklin Schargel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 2013-10-31
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ISBN : 1317925823

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This book describes the fifteen strategies identified through research reviewed by The National Dropout Prevention Center and Network at Clemson University. Each chapter in this book was written by a nationally recognized authority in that field. Research has shown that these 15 strategies have been successfully implemented in all school levels from K - 12 in rural, suburban, and urban centers; as stand-alone programs or as part of systemic school improvement plans. Helping Students Graduate: A Strategic Approach to Dropout Prevention also covers No Child Left Behind and its effects on dropout rates; Dealing with Hispanic dropouts; Differences and similarities between rural and urban dropouts. These fifteen strategies have been adopted by the U.S. Department of Education. They are applicable to all students, including students with disabilities.

Author : Martin Mills
Publisher : Trentham Books is
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,25 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781858567822

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"Alternative education encompasses a diversity of schooling types and organizations. International Perspectives on Alternative Education explores alternative forms of schooling from the position of academics, policy workers and those working and studying in such schools across the world. The first-hand accounts by those working and leading in alternative schools, and the analyses by those working at the policy level, bring alive their dilemmas and challenges. Complementing these are the academic contributions, which examine over-arching questions about social justice and the meanings of achievement, success, choice and purpose across education. The issue of alternative education and why it is relevant in today's educational landscape is an international one, and the book draws on contributions from Australia, Indonesia, Korea, Denmark, England, Germany, Scotland and the United States. The book will be of interest to all educators, teachers, academics, students, policy workers and others concerned about issues of social justice and education."--

Author : Claire V. Korn
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 17,88 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791404713

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Alternative American Schools: Ideals in Action is a book for parents and teachers, for education professors, researchers, and students--indeed, for everyone who wants to understand the daily practices and philosophies of schools where awakening interests and learning how to learn is more important than content mastery. Drawing upon years of research and personal experiences, Korn clearly discusses fundamental contemporary educational issues through an analysis of seven long-lived, open, alternative schools, preschool through high school, public and private. This clearly written book explores the cooperative (and sometimes confusing) roles of teachers, students, and parents in these schools of choice; it also discusses their philosophical, financial, and physical survival needs. Once popularly dismissed as failed dreams, today these open learning environments continue to flourish and provide educational options to many enthusiastic learners.

Author : Alia R. Tyner-Mullings
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,52 MB
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 1317260368

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Enter the Alternative School is an in-depth examination of public school alternatives to traditional educational models in the US. This book analyses how urban education can respond to a system growing increasingly standardised and privatised. As an example, Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS), a public alternative schooling model, successfully served predominantly low-income and minority students. It also changed the New York City public school system while promoting methods that allowed educational institutions to make changes in the lives of their students. Written by a sociologist who was both a student at CPESS and a teacher at a school developed from the CPESS model, the book analyses education from a range of vantage points, assesses outcomes, and invites readers to consider the potential of alternative educational models to address the challenges of reforms that attempt to provide quality education to the low-income and minority students otherwise under served by public schools.

Author : Deborah A. Greene
Publisher :
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Alternative schools
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"This dissertation is an exploration of alternative schools that are offered to students who might otherwise be kicked out or drop out of public schools. I examine the more traditional options offered by public school systems, as well as more unusual schools that offer a democratic education. My primary research question is: How can a high school create an engaging education around the values of peace and justice? After a discussion of my methods and how they have changed over the course of this project, I look at the history of democratic and progressive schooling, and compare and contrast that history with contemporary practices in public school. Then I look at the philosophy underlying school practices and policy. I examine how neoliberalist policies impact schools today, and then envision the philosophy of an alternative school that better serve students who do not experience success in more traditional public schools. From there I explore current practices, both in traditional schools and in schools that aim to provide a democratic education for students. I look at the benefits of providing an authentic, democratic, multicultural education that incorporates social justice and what I term spirit-learning, which aims to offer tools to students so that they learn how to create peace in their own, personal lives as they learn to work towards creating peace in their communities and in the world they will inherit."--Abstract from author supplied metadata.

Author : Yoshiyuki Nagata
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 2007-03-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 1402049862

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This book examines issues in alternative and mainstream education systems. It presents not only alternative forms of education facing actual issues in societies but also legal and administrative features of education. The book, dealing with issues of minority in education system, addresses school development in the 21st century as well as what kind of educational community should be created in the age of globalization.

Author : Gregory A. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 1136642404

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Public Schools That Work addresses the efforts of teachers, administrators and parents to develop alternative educational models capable of overcoming the alienation and intellectual disengagement that have become so common in American schools. Educators working in some of the best alternative elementary and secondary schools across the country recount their attempts to create systems which will educate diverse populations in their customs and heritages, involve parents and community leaders in decisions related to the life of their schools and involve students in their communities by encouraging participation in a variety of civic projects. By being rooted in their local social environment, these schools demonstrate the transformative potential of education to return power and authority to those individuals attempting to reconstruct and humanize the institutions within which they must learn and teach.