Today we see a proliferation of
all kinds of alternative schools — charter schools and pilot schools, among others.
The most critical question that must then be answered is what
kind of alternative schooling should be designed and offered in our public schools?
Not exact matches
Great
alternatives would be: sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, goji berries, all
kinds of chopped nuts: walnuts, pine, hazelnut ~ you could go nuts here;)(see a note below about
school safe options) One thing to remember is that you need a fine grind ingredient such as the hemp hearts and some larger pieced for texture.
The students in
alternative schools are typically teenagers and old enough to decide what
kind of academic environment they prefer.
«This is an issue we're trying to resolve,» said Michael Cook, a spokesman for the Las Cruces, N.M., Public
School District, which he said was trying to make certain that any student who can't afford the main meal on the menu «is served some
kind of alternative» rather than go hungry.
Less than 50 percent
of surveyed teens found it «very believable» that cigars are not a safe
alternative to cigarettes, according to a first -
of - its -
kind UNC
School of Medicine study.
Great
alternatives would be: sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, goji berries, all
kinds of chopped nuts: walnuts, pine, hazelnut ~ you could go nuts here;)(see a note below about
school safe options) One thing to remember is that you need a fine grind ingredient such as the hemp hearts and some larger pieced for texture.
«It
kind of came across as the problem is the charterization... But I don't think [the problem with
alternative schools] is necessarily a charter
school thing.»
The adults who work there often have a long record
of poor performance, having bounced around from
school to
school until, finally, the teachers union and the district human resources department make a deal to assign them to an
alternative setting, which serves as a
kind of professional exile from the rest
of the system.
The last major
alternative is restorative justice, the
kind of climate - based improvement program that Matthew Hornbeck has been building in his
school over the past nine years.
This report — the first
of its
kind — highlights the challenges facing urban Native American youth in public
schools and showcases seven
alternative public education programs that are having a positive impact in addressing these challenges.
Alternative charter schools have complained that the association's accountability system relies too heavily on the Academic Performance Index - which does not always account for the kinds of students and their varied problems that end up in the alternativ
Alternative charter
schools have complained that the association's accountability system relies too heavily on the Academic Performance Index - which does not always account for the
kinds of students and their varied problems that end up in the
alternativealternative programs.
It is possible that the reason why
alternative schools are successful are because they are often geared towards exactly these
kinds of students.
As this issue
of ARTnews went to press, the Pioneer Works space in Red Hook, Brooklyn, was preparing an «
Alternative Art
School Fair,» a
kind of job fair for these types
of schools.