Summarizes a report evaluating two Western Australian "Senior Colleges" designed to offer viable secondary education alternatives to students above the compulsory schooling age. The evaluation used both qualitative and quantitative methods. The most striking finding was the colleges' success in creating a positive ethos for students and…

The Teacher Assessment Project at Stanford University has undertaken a series of "wisdom of practice" studies with 11 experienced high school history teachers. This article describes two teachers who achieve optimal results using contrasting teaching styles and classroom organization systems. Both are thoroughly knowledgeable in history…

It is proposed that the natural order of human education involves a progression from the socialization of children to the enlightenment of adulthood. A contradictory thesis is advocated and practiced by scholars who have institutionalized unconventional educational movements. (JOW)

Responses from 302 accounting programs with tenure tracks (of 600 surveyed) showed that the use of nontraditional teaching styles and techniques was not affected by tenure status. Evaluation methods, exams, classroom activities, and case usage were similar. Nontenured faculty made greater use of databases. (SK)

Uses stimulated recall to elicit a retrospective account from two alternative school students who choreographed a dance to depict their understanding of the relationship between the two central characters in a short story. Suggests that these students' account illustrates the way in which reader, text, and context participate in a complex…

Describes three graduate distance education programs: the virtual campus of Walden University, the University of Phoenix Online Campus in San Francisco, and the television-based National Technological University. The programs demonstrate how a wide range of delivery methods satisfy the need for rigor, collaboration, and assisted autodidaxy in…

Alternative schools are definitive departures from the programmatic, organizational, and behavioral regularities inhibiting school reform. Many reforms now pursued in traditional schools were pioneered by alternative schools. Types include popular innovations, last-chance programs, and remedial programs. Advantages, disadvantages, common elements,…

At Albuquerque's visually appealing New Futures School, which combines academics with parenthood training and day care services, approximately 75 percent of pregnant teens and teenage mothers enrolled obtain a high school diploma. Compared with traditional schooling, few rules apply, except required prenatal care and no fighting. The newborns also…

Reviews the contributions of G. Spindler and L. Spindler to anthropology in "The American Cultural Dialogue and Its Transmission" (Falmer Press, 1990), "Interpretive Ethnography and Education: At Home and Abroad" (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1987), and "Education and Cultural Process: Anthropological Approaches" (Waveland…

This article introduces a series of articles on the governor's school model, described as a nontraditional program blending cultural, academic, social, and recreational components into a rich and natural learning environment for gifted students. The article also briefly describes the Mississippi Governor's School and outlines the purposes of the…

This speech examines damage done to young children's creativity by schooling systems which emphasize left-brain activity, bureaucracy, and the maintenance of the status quo. Proposed as an alternative is Huston Smith's fourfold education scheme: subjective education; education for surprise; education for surrender; and education for words.…

The Program for All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly offers geriatrics training for health professionals in a nontraditional site. The model includes immersion in a holistic, multidisciplinary environment; training in multidisciplinary care and the needs of the frail elderly; direct involvement in the patients' community; and continuity of care. (SK)

Describes the portfolio as an alternate tool of assessment. The description includes suggestions for classroom use as well as portfolio requirements. (ZWH)

Provides a profile of corporate universities; discusses formation of strategic partnerships of business, industry, and universities; and describes two University of Tennessee partnerships: with Saturn Corporation and with Bechtel National. (SK)

Discusses alternative-education programs and describes the SKILL (Student Knowledge in Living and Learning) Program that offers high school students small classes with individualized instruction. Describes public-education alternative schools as well as private, religious, and other types of alternative schools, and five sidebars offer other…