Deepening disaffection with public schools has inspired flight to private schools, home schooling, and charter schools. At present, there are about 1,700 charter schools, with total enrollments estimated to reach one million soon. This book looks at six strikingly different charter schools, including an evangelical home-schooling charter in…

Understanding the role of alternative schools in providing educational opportuni-ties for youth with disabilities has become increasingly important over the past few years. Significant numbers of youth with disabilities are not completing school and the extent to which alternative education may offer an option that engages students, provides a…

The background of the development of optional public schools as well as some criticisms and concerns are discussed. (Author/KM)

A thoughful scholar discusses the founding of a remarkable new learning community to aid mankind in facing the future. (Editor)

Explores the background of the current concern with experiential learning for adults, explicates several rationales for conceptualizing experiential learning, and describes strategies that can be used by practitioners to implement experiential learning. (JOW)

Suggests several short, manageable activities for teaching writing, such as writing cereal box copy, characterizations, test items, and obituaries. (JL)

Discusses the advantages of recurrent or lifelong education but recognizes that the logic of recurrent education is not matched by appropriate incentives to individuals to forgo traditional educational patterns. Briefly reviews articles that follow in the same journal number on the subject of lifelong learning. (GC)

Agrees with James Coleman's premise that American education is largely based on four concepts, but disagrees with Coleman's assertion that these concepts should be discarded. States that the imperative within the public schools may be the provision of increased opportunities and options. (WD)

Philadelphia's Parkway Program is an alternative high school featuring great teacher autonomy. Recent reductions in force and teacher reassignment for racial balance led to the discovery that both teachers who had originally selected Parkway and those placed in the program involuntarily wished to remain in the program after experiencing it. (PGD)

Describes the author's experiences studying during his junior year at Fordham College under Russell Kirk, through the Socratic tutorial system offered through International College. Relates the formal and informal aspects of his educational experiences. (AYC)

Discusses the services of the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (OECA), which has a nine station TV network, a nonbroadcast videotape distribution system, many interactions with cable companies and domestic satellite transmission, and a databank indexing OECA resources. (JEG)

In spite of the increasing attack from columnists, some legislators, and other assorted real or imagined policymakers, the Hispanic community is realizing that bilingual bicultural education represents a viable pedagogical strategy to deal with their astonishingly low educational attainment. (NQ)

Twenty-one problems besetting public schools are presented, and the spread of the alternative school movement is predicted on the basis of the intensification of these problems. (JMF)

A professor of law favoring the California proposal for a statewide voucher system emphasizes the significance of family choice; a superintendent of public schools argues against the proposal, raising the possibility of administrative problems and the negation of efforts toward equal opportunity. (SS)