This high school's successful suspension alternative assigns disruptive students to an alternative classroom for several days, where they are isolated from the remainder of the student body all day, and excluded from participation in or attending all regular programs and cocurricular activities. (DCS)

Suggests that there is a "second system" of specialist teachers and that this system has largely failed to fulfill the goal of accelerating the literacy development of participating children. Explores a "whole day model" as an alternative to the highly regulated "second system," wherein the classroom teacher would assume the responsibility for the…