Article analyzes the impetus for alternative schools' development, their present status, and reactions to their development. (Editor)

Article provides an overview of the various alternative programs for schools, pointing out their specific advantages. Examples are given of some of the country's outstanding programs. (Editor)

Article expresses concern that oftentimes non-public alternatives do not deal with the real educational or social issues. (Editor)

A principal of an alternative school lists and elaborates on imperatives for developing an alternative school program. (Editor)

Author discusses the four components of planning: need, interest, organization, and accountability as they relate to an alternative school. (Editor)

Questions and answers presented in this article offer concrete advice not only about what options in public education should be but also what they should do. (Editor)

Article is a list of cautions based on the experience of large school districts, as leaders in initiating educational options. (Editor)

Article shows a logical outline of problem areas in alternative schools and the strategy for dealing with them as demonstrated by one school district. (Editor)

On the premise that alternatives are needed and that they will have a better service and survival rate if they are public rather than private, Illinois has instituted a network for educational options. (Editor)

Article describes the processes of establishing Brown Open School. The school was a commitment of public school resources to making philosophical rather than measureable behavioral differences in students. (Editor)

Describes how the Cambridge Pilot School is working in spite of problems that occur when an alternative school is housed in its parent school and the natural constraints of the two territories come to play. (Editor/GB)

Problems arising in alternative programs are no more difficult to solve than problems that arise in any other educational setting. They may be different problems, but their solutions come about the same way. (GB)

Author discusses the changing role of administors of alternative schools and suggests more training specifically designed to aid alternative school administrators. (GB)

Described in this article are the unique staffing needs of alternative schools and the use of job candidates' personal choice in selecting staff members. (Editor)

Article describes an array of options including separate school units, in-school units, and a variety of short-term alternatives all of which have been in operation for nine years in the unified district of Jefferson County, Colorado. (Editor)