Product Description: Using critical theory as a foundation, Alternatives in Education posits psychology's role in educating at-risk youth as the number one ingredient for student success. To reach and teach disaffected youth, the best psychological practices must be wedded to modern, multicultural perspectives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explains the advantages and disadvantages of homeschooling, and provides advice on setting up a curriculum, getting the child involved with the community, and dealing with the special learning needs of some children

A comprehensive analysis of the pros and cons of an increasingly discussed solution to school problems explores their history and operation, showing how they differ from other educational suggestions such as vouchers and magnet schools. Reprint. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: The governess has haunted the British imagination since the eighteenth century, when in the indomitable person of the preceptress, she helped to define what it meant to be a rational woman. In the nineteenth century she evolved into a far more enigmatic figure, embodying both the hopes and fears of the moneyed classes and marking faultlines in the ideal of domestic femininity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: A passionate deconstruction and reconstruction of learning, development, and schooling that urges teachers to explore and create new educational opportunities for themselves and their students, Schools for Growth: Radical Alternatives to Current Educational Models asks the following questions: Can we create ways for people to learn the kinds of things that are necessary for functional adaptation without stifling their capacity to continuously create their growth? Can schools become environments that support children to perform not only as learners but as developers of their lives? This book challenges educators to look at the deeply-rooted assumptions about schooling, learning, and development and urges that the way psychology and education have constructed our conceptions of what it means to teach, to learn, and to grow may be the most serious impediment to the learning and developing of children...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Easy-to-access, A to Z resource of best practices from planning through evaluating, with sample reproducible documents and forms that reinforce text concepts. Visually reinforcing figures, highlighted passages, and stimulating quotes keep the reader involved...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book provides unique insights into one of the United States' most comprehensive school-restructuring movements, the Accelerated Schools Project. Since its inception in 1986, the Project has aimed to transform school cultures which slow down learning through remediation into cultures which accelerate the learning of all students...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Describes more than two hundred internships, enrichment classes, and school break and summer programs offered to high school students that involve science, history, languages, law, and more (view table of contents)

Product Description: "Hopfenberg and Levin provide a pwerful resource for creating schools grounded in community reflecton, inquiry, and the belief that all children can be smart. . .Here at last is a ?how-to' book on school reform that helps educators confront the values, beleifs, and politics, as well as the practices, that make changing schools so difficult...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A collection of eleven profiles by teens who educate themselves or are educated at home, discussing why this alternative to traditional schooling was chosen