Alternative Schools - A Reference Handbook

An examination of the growth and development of alternative schools in American society and their role in the public school environment. In Alternative Schools: A Reference Handbook , educator Brenda Edgerton Conley surveys the emerging alternatives to our conventional educational system-a system that is not only costly, but ineffective for many children.In a resource aimed at a broad audience-school administrators, politicians, and, most important, parents-Conley offers both a historical and a present-day perspective on alternative educational programs. What sets the alternative education movement apart, she argues, is its acknowledgment that we all learn differently. That knowledge has given rise to an explosion of exciting alternatives-from open schools to home schooling, from charter schools to church schools. These alternative schools are smaller and less bureaucratic, more responsive to the community, and more receptive to change.>

About the author

Brenda Edgerton Conley is chair of teacher education programs and assistant professor in the graduate school at the University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD.

Product details

• Authors: Brenda Edgerton Conley, Conley Brenda Edgerton
• Assisted by: Danny Weil (Editor)
• Publisher: Abc Clio Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 12
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.11.2002
• EAN: 9781576074404
• ISBN: 978-1-57607-440-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Contemporary Education Issues
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; USA, EDUCATION / Administration / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, United States of America, USA, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education