Argues that the school restructuring movement offers considerable promise for enhancing educational equity. Reviews equity definitions, outlines restructuring principles, and describes three powerful ethics (competitive/utilitarian, social justice, and caring) underlying current attempts to highlight equity values in education. Presents a strategy…

Discusses the issue of choice in education in the context of San Francisco's 15 alternative public elementary schools. These schools draw more committed students, parents, and teachers, and they create a sense of community often lacking in the public schools, yet they are less socioeconomically integrated. Calls for more exploration of the…

Offers teaching tips on thematic writing assignments, student resubmission of papers, sharing memorable sentences from students' writings, and nontraditional grading policies in writing classes. (RDS)

Changes in the traditional applicant pool have promoted the development of nontraditional educational pathways in collegiate schools of nursing. The authors describe a cooperative arrangement with a provision that allows students to transfer to a bachelor's nursing program before completing their diploma studies. (Author/MLW)

The article presents an overview of the quality control procedures of the British Council for National Academic Awards. The Council awards degrees and certificates to persons completing courses of study at educational establishments other than universities. Noted are procedures for institutional accreditation, models of quality assurance, and…

Governor's schools are described as innovative programs to accelerate or enrich the learning of gifted and talented students in terms of aptitude development, conceptual development, and personal and social development. Findings from the Tennessee Governor's Schools illustrate program outcomes and program effects. (JDD)

The Texas Governor's Honors Program recognizes outstanding high potential and achievement in gifted high school juniors, and provides in-depth instruction in interdisciplinary content areas with an emphasis on leadership in a multicultural society. This article describes program goals, student selection, curriculum, and program impact. (JDD)

Describes dropout prevention model of teamwork between teacher and graduate social work intern at inner-city alternative public high school. Notes that model provides framework for programmatic responses to problems of school dropouts among inner-city minority youths and also furnishes new opportunities for intern training in school social work.…

Alternative teacher credentialing should be evaluated in terms of its effectiveness in improving the quality of education cost effectively, attracting high quality and more diverse teachers, and forging closer links between teacher education reform and elementary-secondary school improvement. (SK)

Researchers used the Youth Risk Behavior Survey to examine the prevalence of health risk behaviors of students attending an alternative high school (AHS) and students attending a regular high school (RHS). More AHS than RHS students engaged in health risk behaviors and initiated risk behaviors at younger ages. (SM)

The New Community School in Lafayette, Indiana, a parent-run school, and Ann Arbor's Community High School demonstrate the challenges of running alternative schools (in finances, organization, and member burnout) and the sense of community that evolves in the process. (SK)

Links Grundtvig's philosophy of folk education with American adult education and experiential education. Addresses obstacles to incorporating principles of folk education within conventional educational institutions. Emphasizes the folk-education philosophy that control of learning must be passed back to the student. (KS)

Describes an Internet-based course in Beam Physics offered at Michigan State University (MSU) as part of the Virtual University Degree program. Discusses the importance of local contact persons, technical aspects, equipment, the Internet-based homework assignments, difficulties encountered, and future activities. (Author/AEF)

Evaluates an educational Web site in risk management and medical-legal issues. Quantitative analysis of a 25-question multiple-choice quiz found that residents who browsed the educational model scored significantly higher (81%) than those who did not (62%). Suggests that the Web site and accompanying quiz database offers a practical solution for…