Discusses the importance of the good noninnovative'' high school in the educational system. (Author/DN)

Clarifies terms, describes the Consortium for Alternative Education, and identifies the social and educational potential and the accountability element in alternative schools. (Author)

This article discusses a recently developed teacher education program that has more than 20 alternative programs from which students can choose. (Author/DN)

A description of the field-based Portland Urban Teacher Education Project is presented. The effectiveness of the program in training minority group teachers is assessed. (Author/DN)

Describes an effort to provide alternatives in education within the public school framework. (Author/DN)

Argues that it is essential that alternative schools continually ask themselves: What is learning?'' Suggests that such schools must view the way the student values himself and his needs, the way he relates to other people, and the way he operates within the educational institution -- given the variables that will affect what a student learns at…

Analyzes the concepts underlying the claims of the alternative advocates to produce greater freedom and creativity, promote more intelligent and responsible choice, and provide for individual differences in educational decisionmaking. (Author)

The Council for Basic Education reviews briefly the history of educational change in the U.S. since the 1950's and examines the attitudes underlying these changes. Suggests that alternative schools are good insofar as they represent alternatives to conventional arrangements rather than to the historic function of schools. (Author/DN)

Suggests ground rules for legitimizing alternatives within the public system and argues for options as a feasible route to reform. (Author)

Focuses on the wider meaning of the growth of alternative schooling in our society. Suggests that the survival of society depends on the widespread existence of decisionmaking powers, that such power is learned by making decisions, and that alternatives are needed in order that decisions may be made. (Author/DN)

Presents the results of a survey on school finance taken among education professionals. The questions asked cover such areas as priority of expenditures, revenue sources, adequacy of funding, length of schooling, and State vs local control. (Author/DN)

Examines recent studies that indicate that schools should not restrict themselves to goals that maximize the kind of intelligence IQ tests measure. Suggests that alternatives in education could possibly identify and nurture some of those skills and talents that have more influence on adult success than does IQ. (Author/DN)

Looks at the free school movement within and outside the realm of public education. Presents an historical perspective on the radical private free school movement evidence suggesting that the development of educational options within the public school system has come from within the system. (DN)

Discusses the establishment and operation of alternative schools within the public school system at both the junior high and high school levels. (DN)

Discusses how one rural community began an alternative school after concern mounted over the dropout rate in this conventional district's high schools. (DN)