Download or read book Effectiveness of Alternative Education Programs for Disruptive Youth written by Sièta L. Achampong and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alternative Education written by J. David Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alternative Education for Disruptive Youth written by Pennsylvania State Department. of Education, Harrisburg and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document was prepared to serve as an aid in the planning, design, implementation, and ongoing evaluation of Alternative Education for Disruptive Youth Programs in Pennsylvania. School Codes and Public Laws are cited for guidance on mandatory issues. The suggestions and implementation strategies provided in this document are not requirements for Pennsylvania's Alternative Education for Disruptive Youth Programs, but may be used as a tool for new program development and to assist program staff in creating new programs or modifying existing programs that are flexible and effective in helping students overcome their difficulties and address their conduct, so that they can learn, graduate, and become productive members of society. Contents include: (1) Background of Alternative Education in Pennsylvania; (2) How to Use This Document; (3) Self-Assessment Guide; (4) Additional Assistance; (5) Program Design Overview; (6) Needs Assessment/Identification of Target Population; (7) Legal Considerations; (8) Approved Private Providers; (9) Budget Design; (10) Site Selection; (11) Transportation; (12) Food Services; (13) Health Services; (14) School Climate and Environment; (15) Parental Involvement; (16) Community Partnerships; (17) Student Eligibility and Entrance Criteria; (18) Student Resources and Services; (19) Curriculum Development; (20) Staffing; (21) Instructional Practices; (22) Student Assessment: (23) Exit Criteria and Transition; (24) Annual End-of-Year Report; (25) Self-Assessment and Monitoring; and (26) Record keeping Requirements.
Download or read book Survey and Analysis of Alternative Education Programs II written by Nathaniel S. Hosley and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Student Perceptions of the Beneficial Features of Alternative Education Programs written by Anna Parlett Bickford and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This qualitative study was designed to capture the perspectives of former alternative school students and former administrators regarding the effectiveness of the various components of their respective programs. Thirteen former students and six administrators completed surveys and follow-up interviews to rate the effectiveness of components recommended to be included in schools for disruptive youth by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Data were analyzed to identify the components students and administrators perceived to be effective and to compare the points of view of the two participant groups. The component that received the highest ratings from both the student and administrator participants was: providing a small and supportive school environment. There was a discrepancy of student opinion regarding the effectiveness of curriculum and instruction. Interviews with administrators led to findings regarding obstacles that the administrators identified as preventing the development of more effective programs. These included: (1) Rigid graduation requirements of sending school districts that prevent the development of curricula that would be more relevant to the students, (2) Limited budgets that prevent the purchase of needed resources, especially curriculum and technology, (3) Convoluted bureaucracies that hinder effectiveness of the curriculum and instruction in the alternative schools and (4) Inconsistency in the philosophy and the reality of the program mission as they relate to transitioning students from alternative education programs back to public schools.
Download or read book Alternative Education for Disruptive Youth Annual Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Expelled to a Friendlier Place written by Martin Gold and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines three model schools, established as alternatives to expulsion for selected disruptive students.
Download or read book Effective Alternative Education Programs written by Christopher Scott Chalker and published by R & L Education. This book was released on 1999 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number of alternative education programs in the United States has increased significantly over the past several years. Unfortunately, the number of resource books addressing alternative education has not paralleled program growth. Filling a major gap in the literature, Chalker and Brown provide concrete solutions to challenging problems associated with the planning, development, and implementation of alternative education programs for K-8 students. They break the book into equal parts, treating, respectively, K-5, 6-8 and combined K-8 efforts at prevention and early intervention before students reach high school. Public school administrators and alternative program educators will find this book useful and educational professionals at the national and state level will appreciate the activities aimed at school improvement initiatives.
Download or read book Alternative Programs for Disruptive Youth written by Marie Angele Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book addresses issues in meeting the educational needs of disruptive students. In the introduction, R. Sarri examines the rise of alternative schools and discusses common elements in their design and operation. D. Sabatino follows with "Issues and Concerns: Problems with Alternative Schools," in which he examines the particular difficulties involved in evaluating alternative programs. Four alternative programs are described in depth: Learning Center II, a program administered jointly by the local education agency and the Washington State Juvenile Rehabilitation Division; Bellefaire School (Cleveland, Ohio), an integrated program of group living, education, and psychotherapy; Longfellow Education Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota), designed for multiply handicapped students with severe emotional disturbances; and Special People Realizing Individual New Goals (Atlanta, Georgia), an approach to teaching survival skills to senior high disturbed students. Brief overview descriptions of 12 additional alternative programs are presented: SAIL Project (Student Advocates Inspire Learning) in Minnetonka, MN; the Starr Commonwealth Schools Alternative Education Program (Van Wert, OH); Delta County Education Center (Gladstone, MI); Chana High School (Auburn, CA); Wallbridge Academy (Grand Rapids, MI); Horizons High School (Wyoming, MI); Kansas City Youth Diversion Project (Kansas City, MO); LIFE Center (Albuquerque, NM); Alternative Program (State College, PA); William Smith High School (Aurora, CO); Partners School (Denver, CO); and Project CITE (Crisis Intervention Techniques for Education) in Terrell, TX. (CL)
Download or read book Differential Stakeholder Criteria Utilized in Assessing the Effectiveness of Alternative Programs for Disruptive Youth in Public School Systems written by William S. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Forgotten Room written by Mary Hollowell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located in a rapidly-growing county in the southeastern United States, Peachtree Alternative School is a dumping ground for chronically disruptive students that regular teachers can no longer handle. The school has some of the toughest kids that society has to offer: kids who have dealt drugs, attempted rape, brought weapons to school, and made terrorist threats. Neglect, understaffing, and overcrowding create a volatile situation; Teachers survive threats, assaults, brawls, and rampages with their therapeutic philosophies barely intact. The Forgotten Room is a teacher survival story. It examines the darker side of American education through chronicling the course of Peachtree Alternative School's tenth and final year. It offers a glimmer of hope in the safe zones created by hardworking teachers, but it is also a cautionary tale about the consequences of bureaucrats neglecting troubled teens. Hollowell's multidisciplinary book provides a rare look at public alternative schooling in America. This gritty and compelling ethnography is part of a growing movement in academia to make ethnographic studies more accessible. It exposes punitive school policy, demonstrates the prison-industrial complex, and reveals school board corruption. In addition, it pinpoints quality teaching of chronically disruptive youth. As ethnographic nonfiction, The Forgotten Room breaks down the walls between social science and literature.
Download or read book Transforming Alternative Education written by Dr. Lateshia Woodley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about viewing alternative education through the lens of being an alternative education student and then being a turnaround leader working with schools to transform alternative education programs. This book celebrates the successful work of many alternative schools, making a difference in the lives of students, and highlights the areas in which additional work is needed.
Download or read book Alternative Education Options written by United States. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preserving the Opportunity for Education written by Steve Bickerstaff and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effectiveness of an Alternative Education Program Targeting Youth who are at Risk of Becoming Seriously Delinquent written by Stephen Matthew Cox and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Final Report of the School Alternative Program Study Committee written by Indiana. General Assembly. Legislative Council. School Alternative Program Study Committee and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perceptions of Educators Regarding the Effectiveness of Alternative Programs in a Southern State written by Lydia Roberson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At-risk students are engaged in dangerous behaviors that lead them to become involved in the juvenile justice system and cause the feeling of low self-worth. This eventually causes at-risk youths to drop out of school and engage in detrimental behaviors that meddle in their academic success. The alternative education program provides these at-risk youth with the opportunity to develop positively their academics and behavior to complete a regular high school program. This mixed method study with quantitative and qualitative research enhanced the understanding of the perceptions of the effectiveness of alternative programs from an educator's viewpoint. Conveniently selected educators who worked at an alternative education site, had referred students to an alternative program, had worked with a student who was at an alternative site, or had a student who had been at a program completed a survey examining their perceptions of the effectiveness of alternative programs. From the selection, 10 educators were asked to partake in the qualitative section of the research to strengthen the validity of the research. The means were estimated to analyze the educators' perceptions of the effectiveness of alternative programs in southern state. The results revealed alternative education programs are needed and are effective in developing the needs of at-risk youths, which was consistent with the research shared in the literature review. Appendices include: (1) Survey Instrument; (2) Interview Guide; and (2) Sample Interview Responses.
