This model is designed to serve as a conceptual framework for alternative programs with primary emphasis on provisioning (the way in which time, space, material, equipment, and activities are used in the learning environment). The model's concern is to assess concrete examples or tendencies of teachers, students, and the education program. The…

This survey examines how the educational consumers (students) perceive the school experience and characterizes the various experiences offered by each of four different alternative schools (K-6) as well as presenting a composite picture of student attitudes. Each of the students in the study group (20% of each age group) was interviewed by a…

The interaction of environmental and structural factors is explored in this case study of innovation in a junior high school. It is argued here that when diffuse or ambiguous environmental pressure for substantial change are combined with a differentiated structure, the frequent result is that organization participants develop vague, symbolic…

Organized labor in the United States has been divided in the types of economic solutions it has sought for the working class and in the type of support it has given education. In terms of education, rightwing unionism has tended to accept the basic structure of American education and the general ideology of equality of opportunity. Leftwing…

The "pioneers" of the alternative school movement (schools that have now been in existence from two to five years) have experienced many difficulties in putting their ideas into practice. This report contains a discussion of a conference that focused on the difficulties that have been encountered in involving students, staff, and parents in…

This booklet contains descriptions of seven elementary and four secondary alternative school programs in the Eugene, Oregon, School District 4J. All these programs conform to school district policy, which dictates that alternative school programs must cost no more to operate than regular district schools. Each alternative school proposal was…

The 12 sources cited here deal with several approaches to student suspension, including inhouse suspensions, the legal aspects of suspensions, and the prevention of the discipline problems that cause students to be suspended. (IRT)

Concern that nursing educators' pre-occupation with nontraditional programs (such as open curriculum, career ladders, challenge exams, and external degrees) may operate to the detriment of baccalaureate programs in nursing for generic students is expressed. (Author/MS)

Information in the literature stresses the use of more humane approaches to education. The number of titles for the last 10 years was counted in the Education Index. The results indicated that there is a significant trend toward an increasing number of titles published. (Author)

Suggests various formal and informal approaches to play and notes their use and development in the school and classroom. (Available From: CS 703 732) (MH)

Describes the building of Milton Academy's solar greenhouse and explains the reasons the greenhouse construction was included in the curriculum. (IRT)

Suggests that speech communication instructors consider teaching a unit advertising course and offers a series of instructional alternatives for constructing such a unit. (MH)

Discusses the need for establishing instruction which aids student understanding of mass media process and effects and which facilitates rational and influential responses to media. (MH)

The students at Mendocino High School weren't fitting into the regular school program. Along came Jeffery Fine and his community school alternative. The results are encouraging for administrators and stimulating for students not satisfied with their regular secondary curriculum. (RK)

Clarifies the objectives of the back-to-basics movement, its impetus in society, and some of the forms it takes in schools and in state requirements. (IRT)