TOPIC: Alternative Schools and Alternative Education

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Continuing Education Module

• Enhancing Classroom Approaches for Addressing Barriers to Learning: Classroom Focused Enabling

Reports & Briefs

• Youth Gangs and Schools

Quick Training Aid

• Behavior Problems at School
• Re-engaging Students in Learning

Guides

• Dropout Prevention
• Working with Disengaged Students (Practice Notes)

Practice Notes

• About Motivation
• Addressing Neighborhood Problems that Affect the School
• Minimizing Referrals Out of the Classroom

Introductory Packets

• Conduct and Behavior Problems in School Aged Youth
• Dropout Prevention
• Least Intervention Needed: Toward Appropriate Inclusion of Students with Special Needs

Newsletters

• School Engagement, Disengagement, Learning Supports, & School Climate (Winter, '11)
• Concerns = Opportunities: Addressing Student Disengagement, Acting Out, and Dropouts by Moving in New Directions (Spring, '06)
• Enabling Learning in the Classroom: A Primary Mental Health Concern (Spring, '98)
• Promoting Youth Development and Addressing Barriers (Fall, '99)
• School Dropout Prevention: A Civil Rights and Public Health Imperative (Fall '08)

Technical Assistant Sampler & Resource Aid

• School Engagement, Disengagement, Learning Supports, & School Climate
• Behavioral Initiatives in Broad Perspective

Articles

• L. Taylor & H. S. Adelman. Personalizing Classroom Instruction to Account For Motivational and Developmental Differences.

Other Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet

Alternative Education
• A literature review of alternative school academic interventions
• Alternative Education: Exploring Innovations in Learning
• Alternative Education Legislation in the Southwest (US)
• Alternative Education: What is It?
• Alternative Schools Accountability Model (ASAM)
• Alternative Schools and Students with Disabilities: Identifying and Understanding the Issues
• Alternative Schools Network
• Characteristics of students in alternative and traditional high schools
• How do states define alternative education?
• Missing the Mark: Alternative Schools in the State of Mississippi
• "Public Alternative Schools and Programs for Students at Risk of Education Failure: 2000-2001" (2002) National Center for Educational Statistics
• Shaping a new accountability system for alternative high schools
• Ten Signs That You Need to Find a Different Kind of Education for Your Child
• "Towards a Typology of Alternative Education Programs: A Compilation of Elements from the Literature" (2003) L. Aron
• "Vulnerable Youth: Identifying Their Need for Alternative Educational Settings" (2003) J. Zweig

School Programs

• Alternative high schools for at risk students
• Alternative Schools and Programs for Public School Students At Risk of Educational Failure
• A Unique Partnership: The Story of a Community School
• Meeting Five Critical Challenges of High School Reform - Lessons from Research on Three Reform Models
• National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs

• Alternative Education Resource Organization
• Alternative Learning Environment
• Magnet Schools of America
• National Home Education Research Institute

• Alternative American schools: ideals in action. Korn, C.V. (2010). State University of NY Press.
• Alternative Education for the 21st Century: Philosophies, Approaches, Visions. Woods, P.A., & Woods, G.J. (Eds). (2009). Palgrave MacMillan.
• Alternative Schools: A Reference Handbook (2002) Conley, B. E. In: Contemporary Education Issues
• Alternative education: Choices beyond the public school system. Smith, Candace (2001). In: Booklist (Jan 1): 980.
• Alternative Education Strategies: Reducing violence in school and the community. Tobin, T and Sprague, J (2000). In: Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders 8(3): 177.
• Alternative Public School Financing. Disend, DS (2000). In: Clearing House, 74(2): 62.
• Cultural, social, and intrapersonal factors associated with substance use among alternative high school students. Grunbaum, JA; Tortolero, S; Weller, N; Gingiss, P (2000). In: Addictive Behaviors, 25(1): 145-151.
• The hows and whys of alternative education : schools where students thrive. by Leiding, D. (2007). Rowman & Littlefield.
• Research On Alternative And Non-Traditional Education. Dangel, J.R., and Guyton, E.M. (Eds) (2005). Association of Teacher Educators

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