Alternative to what? 18 Articles

by Stanley W. Shura

Alternative education: Alternative to What? I am no expert on the scope and value of the options beyond public education available to K-12 students. As the title implies, this article does not need to develo...read more

by DasGehoeft

Stop being selfish! We have our children and then at age 5 to 18 we pawn them off to the Public School system and go on with our selfish, pathetic me, me, me attitude. We brought these wonderful little lives into this wo...read more

by Matt Lipford

The heading of this segment asks one of the most important educational questions facing the very future of our country today: Alternative to what? In a word: parenting. School should not be a place to baby-sit, which is ...read more

by Tim Driver

As someone who designed, developed, and implemented an "at-risk" junior high program for twelve years, as well as having two masters degrees in education and experience teaching teachers in their masters programs here are ...read more

by Shawn Vilmaire

The education system is flawed. We are all aware that this is true and no one denies it. What is in question is how it is flawed. First we don't pay quality educators what they are worth. Second their is no incentive fo...read more

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by jf

The only alternative form of education I know in the United States is the Montessori Method. I had gone to a Montessori College when I was twenty. Much like the famous Reed college in Oregon,I was pretty much left to mysel...read more

by Raimund Wild

The long form is on our website. The uninhibited mind of a child In our post-industrial nations, we relentlessly attack the creativity of children by trying to force them to fit the "norm" through our streamlined edu...read more

by Karen Shoemaker

Alternative education versus the standard educational system has a major opponent. That opponent is "street learning". The problem with education today is the fact that most individuals learn through experience. Experie...read more

by Alida Chacon

An alternative to the current public education system must be found. It's not hard to believe the statistics that lower income children do not recieve the best quality education available. What some might find hard to be...read more

by Ronald Claiborne

They come from homes where the mother and father are alcoholics, drug addicts, illiterate, abused, handicapped, or just dirt poor. From the day they start school they are behind so no one really takes the time to help the...read more

by Rachael Webster

There are not many things in life that cannot be learned as we get older, life itself being the biggest learning curve of all. For many, school applies too many pressures. The need to get good grades, demands from paren...read more

by Tom Ontis

Let's face it: Traditional school from 8-3 is not for everyone. For a variety of reasons, some students cannot or do not benefit from a traditional form of education. Reading things out of a textbook, or even looking inf...read more

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by Rita Joyce

Just to start things off, I am a student attending a 2-year college program for an Associates Degree in Computer Networking/Information Technology. For the past several years though, through initiative programs promoted by...read more

by Steve Miracle

The environment in an alternative school can be very demanding. The students of these schools are generally those who have suffered from many types of adversity academically, socially, cognitively, and emotionally. They ha...read more

by Sandra J Willis

An alternative to going to youth detention or to boot-camp, or to jail or an early grave. It is so hard for teachers to teach students these days because, the classrooms are filled with students who do not care about getti...read more

by T. Youngblood

Education = Conditioning "Every system is a touch of death." That's a quote from the beat poet Michael Mc Clure. Education is in its best form a way to give knowledge and guidance. The teachers that have the abili...read more

by Don Berg

What is your problem with education: the classroom, industrial schooling, competitive socialization, standardized one-size-fits-all teaching, isolating children from the community, autocratic behavioral management, the dev...read more

by David A

The Master Plan I listened as the disheveled high school boy related how he was going to sue the high school. My feet shuffled under my desk in uncomfortable anticipation of leaving in the mid-afternoon. "I fell up the ...read more