IALA » Residential acads http://learningalternatives.net The International Association for Learning Alternatives Sat, 05 May 2012 17:57:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Residential Academies http://learningalternatives.net/weblog/post/140/ http://learningalternatives.net/weblog/post/140/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2004 21:05:08 +0000 Wayne Jennings http://learningalternatives.net/?p=140 Ray Morley, IALA board member and prolific contributor to educational alternatives for many years has described a rapidly growing phenomenia, that of residential academies. For a quick look at this concept see his paper, “Residential Education: A Topic for Consideration in Alternative Education.” He also describes the Coalition for Residential Education.

]]> http://learningalternatives.net/weblog/post/140/feed/ 0 Residential Schools http://learningalternatives.net/weblog/post/116/ http://learningalternatives.net/weblog/post/116/#comments Sun, 11 Jan 2004 18:16:10 +0000 Wayne Jennings http://learningalternatives.net/?p=116 Seed School (real name, Schools for Educational Evolution and Development), a residential boarding charter secondary school for at-risk students in Washington, DC has received a great deal of publicity for its success. The program provides students a high degree of structure and academic rigor. It claims a high success in turning around the lives of its students.

Core, an organization has information on starting residential boarding schools for at-risk students, a likely area of growth for alternative education in the future according to Ray Morley with the Iowa Department of Education (rcmorley@cheerful.com) where a recent study indicated that more than 4,000 adolescents need alternative living arrangements.

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