The problem of career opportunities in physical education does not lie in the absence or dearth of job openings but in the image the profession has of itself. The basic change required of physical educators is an awakening to the possibility and necessity of educating groups other than the traditional seventh to twelfth grades. In addition,…

In this survey of alternative public high school programs in New York City, the Community Service Society (CSS) explored the reasons for establishing alternative programs in New York City high schools. It also examined the following: 1)the characteristics of the population these programs were serving, 2)how the programs were planned to meet the…

This publication is intended to serve as a companion volume to the Elementary-Secondary Guide for Oregon Schools, Part 1. Part 1 presented required minimum standards for Oregon public school districts; this volume suggests possible alternatives that districts might consider in meeting the minimum standards. The discussion is organized in four main…

The cooperative education programs provided by the three community colleges which comprise the San Mateo Community College District (California) offer three alternative plans: (1) Alternate Semester--two students hold one full-time job during the year, each spending one semester on campus and one off campus; (2) Parallel--concurrent part-time work…

The second of three booklets deals with organizational procedures in schools that tend to channel girls and boys into different programs. Examples are presented of some current practices that limit and some that increase a student's options. The examples concern classrooms, students' personal lives, academic and vocational study, extracurricular…

The Harvard University Center for Moral Education is conducting research on Kohlberg's assumption that development of moral thinking and of practical understanding of democratic institutions may be most effective in schools where students judge the moral atmosphere to be just. Students perceptions of three types of school are compared: (1)…

This short pamphlet discusses the use of teacher centers to provide inservice education as a mechanism of change in American education. It begins by examining what teachers expect from inservice education and from teacher centers. It then looks at the teacher center movement in the United States and explores its historical roots. The different…

Using Terrence Deal's four developmental stages of alternative schools, the authors analyze the development of two Lansing, Michigan, alternative schools (the Capitol Alternative Education Program and the Re-Entry Program). Deal's four stages are the euphoric stage, the psychic upheaval stage, the dissatisfaction stage, and resolution (either…

It is not likely that the schools as presently organized and conducted and with the prevailing model of change employed for their improvement can be redesigned to meet satisfactorily the wide and varied range of expectations for them. The schools are suffering from a confusing array of expectations and a crippling overload of functions. Our…

This newsletter comprises four sections: (1) the educational philosophy and objectives of Shanti, a public alternative school in Hartford, Connecticut; (2) Rosen's statements about the difficulties of finding an evaluation model for alternative schools and the implications of the methodology that he later used in evaluating the Shanti school in…

Open learning is the act or process of acquiring knowledge or a skill that is accessible and available, not confined or concealed, and that implies a continuum of access and opportunity. All open schools have one thing in common: they are to a greater or lesser extent efforts to expand the freedoms of learners. The trend towards open forms of…

Student access to higher education, the student's ability to enroll in some form of postsecondary education appropriate to his needs, capability, and motivation, and student choice of alternative higher education activities and institutions have recently been thought of in terms of the financial burden associated with attending a postsecondary…

Ideas on the necessity for evaluating alternative programs and on developing evaluation programs are examined in this position paper. Many alternative schools, opposed to measurement of their program from a philosophical and defensive standpoint, view evaluation in a negative light because the purpose is not understood. However, evaluation can be…

The University of Minnesota's teacher center was established by the University's Board of Regents and the Minneapolis Public Schools Board of Education. The teacher center functions to: (a) identify common priorities of the school and university systems, and jointly design projects and programs of inservice, preservice, and curriculum development;…

In response to unmet health needs of high school youth particularly those in ghetto schools, health fairs were organized at three inner-city high schools in New York. The purposes of all three fairs were similar: to disseminate health information, to perform selected health testing, to provide follow-up activities when necessary, and to engender…