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ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION: ADMINISTRATOR PERCEPTIONS OF ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION AND AT-RISK YOUTH
… and society as a whole. For some students, Alternative Education placements may be a way to reengage them and aid them in school completion. This case study examined the Park Run School District, a pseudonym for the school district, to discover the perceptions of Alternative Education for …
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Alternative Education Completers: A Phenomenological Study
… Shouldn't we ask them? What elements of the alternative education experience were significant to successful completion of the alternative education program? The phenomenological paradigm will provide the framework for all aspects of the qualitative study with the progressive theory imparting …
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Teacher Practices to Help Alternative Education Students
<p>The problem addressed by this study is that alternative schools have a high recidivism rate, due in part to a difficult transition for students back to their traditional, zoned school. The purpose of this study was to identify practices of experienced alternative school teachers perceived as …
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Why Teachers Teach in Alternative Education Programs
Descriptive portraits of the alternative education teachers and the programs in which they choose to teach are included in the study. The data gathered from the surveys and interviews was analyzed to allow themes to emerge to answer the research questions. Portraits of eight alternative education …
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Liberatory Love: Exploring Educators’ Perspectives in Alternative Education
… high school conceptualize the role of love in education? In what ways, if at all, are these conceptualizations about love aligned to the practices of liberatory love? (b) In their self-reporting, how do staff members reflect liberatory love in working with students at a continuation high …
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Solutions of Hope: Study of Public Choice Alternative Education
… in solving those problems through the use of alternative educational curricula and settings. It considers that schools foster public engagement, not simply public relations, in order to bring the communities they serve into conversation, which calls for listening, responding, and educating. …
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Overcome evaluation of an elementary-level diciplinary alternative education placement
… schools frequently develop a disciplinary alternative education placement. Students with a history of behavior problems at school are at greatest risk for future behavior problems and academic failures. In response to evidence that removal discipline techniques had little efficacy, schools …
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A descriptive study of selected alternative education schools and programs
… study and analysis of a selected number of alternative schools or programs. The institutions were studied in terms of their development, their offerings, and their successes or failures.The population of the study consisted of 156 program directors who returned usable questionnaires and five …
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Alternative education: English teacher engagement with their craft and students
Alternative education (AE) exists to support students who are considered marginalized and who are also considered at-risk of failure due to sundry challenges to their educational process. AE English teachers act as guides, mentors, and leaders for students entering AE programs and schools and youth …
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Constellations of alternative education tutor essences: A phenomenological poetic inquiry
… are directed to continue their learning with alternative education providers, under the guidance of tutors rather than trained teachers. As a trained teacher who has spent the past 13 years working with tutors in New Zealand’s largest provider of alternative education, I have been inspired by …
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The School Counselor's Role in Alternative Education Programs in Virginia
… 1) What services do school counselors provide in alternative education programs in Virginia? and 2) What are the reasons that students are participating in alternative education programs in Virginia? Alternative programs throughout Virginia were identified and data were randomly collected from a …
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An autoethnographic analysis of school leadership in an alternative education environment
… personalized account of the complicated field of educational leadership and analysis of my journey through two very different alternative education environments. I documented my leadership experience for this self study to further understand how my leadership impacted two alternative educational …
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A study of alternative education seat time waiver students in Michigan
… September of 2007, the Michigan Department of Education introduced a program referred to as seat time waivers to a few school districts in Michigan to pilot. During the 2009- 2010 school year, 999 students were on seat time waivers with a total of 5070 classes taken by these students. While the …
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Case Study of an Alternative Education Program for At-risk Students
… study analysis of the Opportunity School, an alternative public education program in Danville,Virginia that serves students who are considered academically at-risk, grades six through twelve. A case study analysis of the Opportunity School was implemented to provide specific information …
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Perceptions of success factors in rural K-12 public alternative education programs
Alternative education programs for students in the rural K-12 public school setting are designed to fit the needs of the District due to the learning needs being accommodated through the program. This qualitative case study provided suggestions to rural K-12 public alternative education programs …
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Transformative-based Alternative Education Program: A Study of Teacher and Leadership Perceptions
… school leaders regarding the effectiveness of an alternative education transformative day program following the first year of implementation. While some divisions were dissolving their alternative education programs, the school division highlighted within this study prioritized and revitalized the …
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Alternative school administrators : knowledge of and degree of support for alternative education tenets
… study was to examine the extent to which Indiana alternative school administrators were knowledgeable of research-supported tenets of effective alternative education and the extent to which they personally supported these tenets. Other purposes included: (a) developing a demographic profile of the …
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