Category Archives: Policy

Graduation For All

January 13, 2010 – 4:11 pm

Here are a couple of very interesting and extensive articles on graduation rates and the need to promote graduation for all students.  The first article talks mostly about the graduation gap between the upper 2/3 of high school students and the lower 1/3, made up mostly of urban, low-income African American and Latino students.  The [...]

By Peter Wieczorek | Also posted in Alternatives, Articles, At risk programs, Reform, Reports | Comments (0)

School Choice Expanding Worldwide

July 16, 2009 – 8:35 pm

Since the early 1990s when the nation’s first charter school was opened in St. Paul, MN, the scope and availability of school-based options to parents has steadily expanded in the U.S. and abroad. No longer can traditional education be a public monopoly. Sponsored by the National Center on School Choice (NCSC), this 648 page ($115) Handbook of [...]

By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Alternatives, Charter schools, Choices, Magnet schools, Reform, Research, Vouchers | Comments (0)

Valuable Resources on Alternative Education

February 26, 2009 – 5:01 pm

Here are useful resources with links to other sites:
Brief descriptions in Summary of Educational Models include: Accelerated Schools, America’s Choice, Big Picture, Communities in Schools, EdVisions, Job Corps, Youth Build and 17 more.
The Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI) is a network of youth development organizations with over 258 sites nationwide for creating educational opportunities for [...]

By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Alternatives, Choices, High schools, Reform, Reports, Research, Students | Comments (0)

Federal Program Supports School Choice

December 6, 2008 – 5:21 pm

The U. S. Department of Education’s Office of Voluntary Public School Choice program supports States and school districts in efforts to establish or expand a public school choice program. It supports efforts to establish or expand intradistrict, interdistrict, and open enrollment public school choice programs to provide parents, particularly parents whose children attend low-performing public [...]

By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Alternatives, Choices, Reports, U.S. Dept. of Educ., Uncategorized | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Questions Raised about High Standards/Testing

June 22, 2008 – 12:55 pm

‘Restoring Value’ to the High School Diploma: The Rhetoric and Practice of Higher Standards, a new report raises serious questions about the standards and testing movement as a vehicle for reforming high schools. It starts, “Four themes emerge from the fray: that standards and rigor are too low; that the high school has lost its [...]

By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Alternatives, Choices, High schools, Reform, Reports, Research | Comments (0)

Baccalaureate Degree at Community Colleges!

May 15, 2008 – 11:07 am
By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Alternatives, Choices, Reform | Comments (0)

Early College High Schools Grow Dramatically

May 14, 2008 – 10:46 am
By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Alternatives, At risk programs, Choices, Early College HS, Middle college schools, Reform | Comments (0)

Parents Favor More Choices in Schools

May 14, 2008 – 8:18 am
By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Alternatives, Charter schools, Choices, Parents, Reports, Research, Survey | Comments (0)

Changing Traditional Schools: Impossible, Or….

April 20, 2008 – 2:17 pm
By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Alternatives, Choices, Funding, Reform, Small schools, Urban education | Comments (0)

School Choice: New Study

April 20, 2008 – 1:48 pm
By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Alternatives, Choices, Reform, Reports, Research, Vouchers | Comments (0)

A Second Side to the Story

March 26, 2008 – 10:06 am
By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Alternatives, Assessment, At risk programs, High schools, Iowa Assoc. Alt Ed, Morley, Ray, Personalized Educ, Reform, Reports, Research, Students, Training | Comments (0)

What Doesn’t Get Measured Doesn’t Get Done

March 13, 2008 – 7:50 pm
By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Assessment, Mental health, No Child Left Behind, Reform, Reports, Research, Students | Comments (0)

Checklist for Alternative Education

November 23, 2007 – 2:38 pm
By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Alternatives, Loflin, John, Morley, Ray, Reform, Reports, Research, Survey | Comments (0)

What do Kids Learn from Virtual Worlds?

November 23, 2007 – 1:48 pm
By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Choices, Conferences, Lifelong learning, Reform, Reports, Research, Students, Virtual schools | Comments (0)

21st Century Education and Route 21

November 23, 2007 – 9:37 am
By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Part 21st Cent Skills, Reform, Research | Comments (0)