41. The Washington Post Turning to More Than Scores to Rate schools. By Jay Mathews washington Post Staff Writer I studied an alternative school in New Haven Conn. http://www.bigpicture.org/publications/2004archives/WashingtonPost04.htm

Turning to More Than Scores to Rate Schools By Jay Mathews Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, September 28, 2004; Page A14 Last year's academic ratings of Rhode Island public schools showed that the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center, a Providence high school, did not do very well. Its students, many from low-income families, were near the bottom of the list in math skills and writing effectiveness. But on another page in the same book of Rhode Island statistics, the results were startlingly different. The Met, as the school is called, led the state in communicating with its students. Fifty-five percent of students said they could talk easily to staff members about personal problems, and 70 percent said that was true of academic problems, too. No other school came close. Dennis Littky, left, co-founder of the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center in Providence, R.I., talks with learning specialist Eric Oliveras, standing, and students Jessica Brockta, Eddy Perez and Maria Garcia. Littky says many schools forget basic life skills "in their rush to cram in three sciences, three social studies, four maths and so on." (C.j. Gunther For The Washington Post) Dennis Littky, left, co-founder of the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center in Providence, R.I., talks with learning specialist Eric Oliveras, standing, and students Jessica Brockta, Eddy Perez and Maria Garcia. Littky says many schools forget basic life skills "in their rush to cram in three sciences, three social studies, four maths and so on." (C.j. Gunther For The Washington Post)

42. Seattle Public Schools | Volunteer Opportunities Become a volunteer tutor with the washington Reading Corps! There are also a few alternative schools with evening programs, such as Seattle Evening http://www.seattleschools.org/area/vol/vol_opps.xml

Home Schools Map District Calendar ... Community Learning For problems or questions regarding this departmental page, please contact Volunteer Volunteering with Seattle Public Schools Volunteer Opportunities Volunteer At Your Local School Highlighted Volunteer Opportunities We each possess skills that are valuable to a student. Some of the things you can do to contribute are... Be a tutor or a mentor Help students with homework Listen to children read Play educational games with students Assist with math or science Share information about local history Help students learn another language Support special projects, activities, or field trips Assist with after-school programs Provide office support Become involved with school leadership Volunteer at Your Local School To volunteer at your local school, please contact that school directly to find out about its specific volunteer opportunities. For volunteer forms, district map, list of volunteer coordinators contacts , an d additional information about volunteering with Seattle Public Schools, visit Getting Started.

43. Policy Brief--Schools For Disruptive Students alternative schools evolved decades ago to provide an academic option for students not washington, DC National Center for Education Statistics, http://www.ael.org/rel/policy/disrstd.htm

Regional Legislative Database Publications ... Information The following Policy Brief is available in PDF format . To access this file, you need Acrobat Reader. Download a free version here. http://www.adobe.com/product s/acrobat/readstep.html Schools for Disruptive Students: A Questionable Alternative? If one in eight Ford Tauruses failed to operate, Taurus would quickly lose its reputation for quality and its popularity with the public. According to tenets of Total Quality Management, if Ford tried to focus blame on individual workers rather than improve systemwide quality, the problem would most likely persist, public and stockholder confidence would deteriorate, and the company might soon be bankrupt. One in eight students does not complete high school. Minorities, the poor, and the disabled often fare worse. Over 50 percent of students in a quarter of the nation's poor, urban high schools fail to graduate. Suspension, expulsion, retention, chronic failure, and alienation all contribute to unacceptable dropout and incompletion rates. Yet rather than take a systems approach to improvement, many states have created alternative schools for the "problem" individuals thought to degrade general education quality. Alternative schools evolved decades ago to provide an academic option for students not successful in regular education programs

44. Indiana State University : Office Of Public Affairs : News Archive The most common mission of alternative schools is that they re here to help news conferences today at Booker T. washington alternative High School in http://www.indstate.edu/news/archive/2003/march/alted.html

March 5, 2003 ISU publishes assessment of alternative education TERRE HAUTE, Ind. An assessment of alternative education published by Indiana State University finds the state's six-year-old commitment to alternative education is paying off for students who may have previously slipped through the cracks of the public education system. [ See entire study Download Acrobat Reader "Making a Difference: Alternative Education in Indiana" found more than 80 percent of alternative education students either attaining or making satisfactory progress toward their academic goals. The study also shatters the stereotype that most alternative education students are "troublemakers." Legislation passed in 1997 provided funding to encourage the state's school corporations to establish alternative education programs. While only about 50 such programs existed at that time, the number of alternative schools has since increased to more than 250. Because they focus on individual goals and positive results, alternative education programs have demonstrated extremely high levels of success, the report says.

45. Controlled Choice: An Alternative School Choice Plan. ERIC Digest Controlled Choice An alternative School Choice Plan. POLITICS, MARKETS, AND AMERICA S schools. washington, DC The Brookings Institution, 1990. http://www.ericdigests.org/1992-4/choice.htm

Site Links Home Search for ERIC Digests Privacy Policy Resources for Library Instruction ... Information Literacy Blog ERIC Identifier: Publication Date: Author: Weaver, Tyler Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management Eugene OR. Controlled Choice: An Alternative School Choice Plan. ERIC Digest, Number 70. School choice is one of the hottest topics in education. Not only does it have the attention of educators, it has the endorsement of President Bush and a large following of parents. Books are being written, arguments waged, and bills drafted. There is a growing feeling that if parents can choose which schools their children attend, education will improve. However, there are groups urging caution. Some are concerned that issues of equity will be passed over in the push for school choice, causing at-risk students to fall further behind. Because of these concerns, choice plans that focus on equity have begun to receive national attention. Foremost among these is controlled choice, which attempts to create equitable education in a district by providing choice while simultaneously preserving racial and ethnic balance. WHAT IS CONTROLLED CHOICE?

46. RAND | Newsroom | Commentary | Navigating Research On Alternative Schools washington External Affairs Office Shirley Ruhe, Director Where this is not possible, studies can match alternative schools with demographically similar http://www.rand.org/commentary/091904SDUT.html

Optimum graphic presentation of this site requires a modern standards-friendly browser. The browser you are using may not display exactly as we intended, but you will still be able to access all of our content. For more information, see About This Site . Why upgrade? Click here to see how this site's homepage displays with a modern browser. Publication Search RAND Newsroom Commentary ... SUPPORT RAND Office of External Communications oec@rand.org David Egner Director Warren Robak Deputy Director Crystal Davis Amanda Gaylor Paige Parham Congressional Inquiries Washington External Affairs Office Shirley Ruhe, Director wea@rand.org RAND Policy Experts for Media Interviews Search Alphabetical List of Experts Search by Area of Expertise Arts and Cultural Affairs Civil Justice System Defense and National Security Economics and Business ... Welfare and Poverty Commentary Navigating Research on Alternative Schools By Ron Zimmer and Christopher Nelson This commentary appeared in the San Diego Union-Tribune on September 19, 2004.

47. State Departments Of Education And Alternatives Schools State Departments of Education and alternative schools washington. Government Information Education Commission on Student Learning http://www.fsu.edu/~crimdo/jjclearinghouse/jjeducation.html

State Departments of Education and Alternative Schools Alabama Alabama State Department of Education Alabama Education Online Girl Scouts Outreach Program Alaska Alaska Dept of Education State of Alaska - Educational Sites Government Educational Services Statewide Library Electronic Doorway Arizona Arizona Department of Education Bostrom Alternative High School Arizona Commission for Postsecondary Education Arkansas Arkansas Department of Education California California Department of Education California Charter School California State Superintendent of Public Instruction - gopher Yahoo - California State Universities ... Yahoo - University of California Colorado Colorado Department of Education Colorado Department of Higher Education Education in Colorado The EXCEL School Connecticut Connecticut State Department of Education Education in Connecticut Area Cooperative Educational Services University of Connecticut D.C. District of Columbia Public School System Delaware Florida Education in Florida Florida DOE Program Information Florida Department of Education - Sunshine State Standards SAIL High School, Tallahassee, Fla

48. Colleges/Universities/Schools Of Alternative Medicine Colleges/Universities/schools of alternative Medicine 14500 Juanita Drive NE, Bothell, washington 98011, Telephone 425602-3100 Bastyr on the Internet http://www.karinya.com/schools.htm

A karinya Main Section College s/Universities/Schools of Alternative Medicine Read Notice With this page we bring the viewer a listing of major Colleges/Universities/Schools of Alternative Medicine in the U.S. and around the world. The interest in getting back to alternative/holostic/complimentary medicine as well as agriculture (See SAFE below) is a "headlong rush" from that offered by Western medicine and its "drug - lets hope this does it (cover the symptoms) approach", which is just not working. ( Read Notice As a result, the names of educational institutions, many which have been teaching and fully accredited for their students, are getting substantial increases in enrollments. We thought our viewers would like to look in Karinya for these sources, thus, we present our list, which is expected to grow rapidly. Please give us your comments and suggestions to make our web site more responsive to your needs. Australasian College of Natural Therapies 57 Foveaux Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 (close to Sydney) Telephone: (02) 9211 7744, Fax: (02) 9281 4411.

49. About SEED - Employment alternative schools Daring to Be Different park in a lowincome neighborhood of southeast washington, and suddenly you find a brand-new prep school, http://www.seedfoundation.com/about/news-detail.asp?pageaction=ViewSinglePublic&

50. High Risk Students Public alternative schools and Programs for Students At Risk of Education Failure 200001 1012 Fourteenth Street, NW, 600 washington, DC 20005-3410 http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi/Resources/Specific_Populations/High_Risk

Printer friendly text Home Specific Populations High Risk Students Archived Responses Internet Sites Organizations Archived Responses: * What factors influence students to drop out of school? http://eduref.org/cgi-bin/printresponses.cgi/Virtual/Qa/archives/ Specific_Populations/High_Risk_Students/dropout.html Internet Sites: * Addressing the Needs of Youth with Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System: The Status of Evidence-Based Research (May 2003) "This report summarizes and assesses the state of knowledge about children and youth with disabilities who are at risk of delinquency and involvement in, or who have already entered, the juvenile justice system." http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/juvenile.html * At-Risk Youth Research and resources pertaining to the education of at-risk youth. Provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE). http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/pi/hs/atrisk.html?exp=0 * Public Alternative Schools and Programs for Students At Risk of Education Failure: 2000-01 The focus of the study is on alternative schools and programs that serve students who are at risk of educational failure, as indicated by poor grades, truancy, disruptive behavior, suspension, pregnancy, or similar factors associated with early withdrawal from school.

51. High Risk Students Public alternative schools and Programs for Students At Risk of Education Failure 200001 washington DC 20008 Phone (202) 806-8484 Fax (202) 806-8498 http://www.eduref.org/Resources/Specific_Populations/High_Risk_Students.html

Home Specific Populations High Risk Students Archived Responses Internet Sites Organizations Archived Responses: * What factors influence students to drop out of school? http://eduref.org/cgi-bin/printresponses.cgi/Virtual/Qa/archives/ Specific_Populations/High_Risk_Students/dropout.html Internet Sites: * Addressing the Needs of Youth with Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System: The Status of Evidence-Based Research (May 2003) "This report summarizes and assesses the state of knowledge about children and youth with disabilities who are at risk of delinquency and involvement in, or who have already entered, the juvenile justice system." http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/juvenile.html * At-Risk Youth Research and resources pertaining to the education of at-risk youth. Provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE). http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/pi/hs/atrisk.html?exp=0 * Public Alternative Schools and Programs for Students At Risk of Education Failure: 2000-01 The focus of the study is on alternative schools and programs that serve students who are at risk of educational failure, as indicated by poor grades, truancy, disruptive behavior, suspension, pregnancy, or similar factors associated with early withdrawal from school.

52. Schools, Training And Licensure: Internet Resources: The Alternative Medicine Ho schools, Training and Licensure Internet Resources alternative Medicine washington founded in 1978 to train naturopathic physicians. http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/licen.html

Schools, Training and Licensure: Internet Resources: Alternative Medicine The Alternative Medicine College of Canada (AMCC) "offers accredited correspondence courses in naturopathy, homeopathy, and holistic medicine" American Association of Naturopathic Medical Colleges American Association of Naturopathic Physicians Education and Licensing American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) ... American Reflexology Certification Board : "protect the public and promote the advancement of the field through the recognition of competent reflexologists who practice on a professional basis and chose to be recognized as meeting basic national standards Art Therapy Credentials Board : "an independent organization, grants postgraduate registration (ATR) after reviewing documentation of completion of graduate education and postgraduate supervised experience. The Registered Art Therapist who successfully completes the written examinationadministered by the ATCB is qualified as Board Certified (ATR-BC), a credential requiring maintenance through continuing education credits" Auckland College of Classical Homeopathy Australasian College of Health Studies Portland, Oregon: courses of study include aromatherapy, herbal medicine, and natural health

53. New Reports: Alternative Schools; Educational Technology; School Size; Testing alternative schools. Rickles, Jordan, Paul M. Ong and Doug Houston. washington, DC National Education Association, 2002 (106 pages). http://www.bctf.ca/info/NewReports/archive/2003/2003-04-03.html

New Reports Volume 2, No. 6, April 3, 2003 Alternative schools School size Educational technology Testing This issue of New Reports focuses on testing. Further down the page, you will find two excellent research studies that have just been published; a very readable report with recommendations by well-know assessment expert, W. James Popham; and a *free* online book from NEA. Alternative Schools Rickles, Jordan, Paul M. Ong and Doug Houston. The Integrating (and Segregating Effect of Charter, Magnet, and Traditional Elementary Schools: The Case of Five California Metropolitan Areas Keywords: Charter schools; Magnet Schools; Traditional Schools Researchers comparing charter schools to magnet schools in five California metropolitan areas find that magnet schools tend to provide students with a more integrated environment than their local neighbourhood. Charter schools, on the other hand, tend to provide a more segregated environment. *Note: This is a working paper only and the authors have requested that it not be quoted. Educational Technology - Equity Issues Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

54. Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program A collection of visiting scholar photographs shot in washington DC., March 2427, Mr. Marvin Garcia, Director of the Praxis Project alternative schools http://www.cies.org/vs_scholars/VS_Conference/2004/

Internationalize Your Campus Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program Brochure [.PDF] Fulbright NYU/CIC Fellowship in Public Policy Program Fulbright Visiting Scholar Programs Harmony and Discord in the Multicultural United States Fulbright Visiting Scholar Conference 2004 Fulbright Visiting Scholars from over 60 countries gathered in Washington, DC to examine and discuss a multitude of aspects concerning "Harmony and Discord in the Multicultural U.S.," a conference sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. Attended by over 125 Fulbright academics and professionals, the conference was held at the Wyndham City Center Hotel on March 24 - March 27. An expert on the politics of culture

55. AFT - About AFT - Resolutions - 1996 - Federal Funding For Alternative Schools Federal Funding for alternative schools American Federation of Teachers 555 New Jersey Avenue NW washington, DC 20001 http://www.aft.org/about/resolutions/1996/alternative.htm

@import "/css/layout1e.css"; Skip directly to: Content Navigation Block 1 Navigation Block 2 Search ... Resolutions Federal Funding for Alternative Schools document.write(' E-mail'); Print The following resolution was passed at the 1996 biennial AFT convention. WHEREAS, major polls show that the public and teachers identify student discipline as one of the major problems facing education; and WHEREAS, as many as two out of five teachers report losing a lot or a fair amount of instructional time to discipline problems; and WHEREAS, the U.S. department of Education reports that 35 percent of public schoolprincipals say their ability to maintain order and discipline is limited by a lack of alternative placements or inadequate alternative programs for disruptive students; and WHEREAS, violent and chronically disruptive students need special services aimed athelping them adopt socially responsible behaviors; and WHEREAS, an appropriate alternative education for students with chronic misbehavior problems should include a setting, strategies and resources designed to help them adopt socially responsible behaviors; and WHEREAS

56. Burlington Alternative School - Burlington, Iowa / IA - School Information washington alternative School Burlington, Iowa / IA - school information. http://www.greatschools.net/modperl/browse_school/ia/227

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57. Washington Toxics Coalition Dedicated to protecting public health and the environment by identifying and promoting alternatives to toxic chemicals. Provide reliable information about preventing pollution in homes, schools, workplaces, agriculture, and industry. http://www.watoxics.org/

58. Daybreak Alternative School - Spokane, Washington / WA - School Information Daybreak alternative School Spokane, washington / WA - school information. http://www.greatschools.net/modperl/browse_school/wa/1832

WASL results are in! Change State Alabama Alaska Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington Washington DC West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming School Name or District and/or City Home Compare Schools My School List Back to School ... About Us - denotes premium content Sign In Print Email School ... Students Ratings Parent Reviews Principal's View Daybreak Alternative School Grades: 7-12 Type: public Enrollment: 33 628 S Cowley St Spokane, WA 99202 Spokane County Phone: (509) 354-6405 Spokane School District 81 Email Updates About This School Compare This School ... Map Basic School Information Test Scores State standardized test results for this school Teacher Stats Teacher stats in relation to classroom environment Student Stats Facts about student ethnicity, economic level and more

59. Maple Valley High School, Maple Valley, Washington Maple Valley High School is part of Tahoma School District s plan to provide It is an alternative program designed to help students who are at risk of http://www.tahoma.wednet.edu/SubSite/MVHS/

Maple Valley High School 23015 SE 216th Way Maple Valley, WA 98038 Phone: 425-413-3250 Fax: 425-413-3255 Grades: 9 -12. Enrollment: 75-85. Maple Valley High School is part of Tahoma School District's plan to provide an education to all students who wish to complete high school. It is an alternative program designed to help students who are at risk of leaving the educational system without earning a diploma. Maple Valley High School began in September 1987 with 30 students, one teacher, and an instructional assistant. After five months, 15 additional students and a second teacher were added. Today the program as been expanded to include 75-85 students. Maple Valley High School is housed in three portable buildings on the grounds of the historic "Maple Valley Grade School." It graduated its 100th student within the first five years and now sees between 17 and 30 students earn their diplomas each year. Maple Valley High School staff believes that positive self-esteem in students provides the foundation for becoming productive citizens who take pride in themselves, their community, and the work around them. Many students come to MVHS as discouraged learners who have given up on completing their education. The staff works to reverse that process by creating a climate of mutual respect, tolerance, and individual responsibility. The staff accepts students for who they are as they come into a new school setting. Past behaviors and experiences with school are not important. Students are invited to let go of attitudes and behaviors that may have kept them from being successful. Maple Valley High School's philosophy is to accept the student where they are today and move ahead.

60. Access Washington- Alternative Programs Locate washington State Government information and services available on the Web. Take College Classes in High School Running Start Program http://access.wa.gov/education/alternative.aspx

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