Alternative Education
- Alternative Schools Network
http://www.asnchicago.org/ - Alternative Education Resource Organization
http://www.educationrevolution.org/ - Missouri Student Success Network: The Professional Association of Alternative
Education Professionals
http://www.mssn.org/ - Iowa Association of Alternative Education
http://www.iaae.net/ - Center for Collaborative Education
http://www.ccebos.org/ - Education Commission of the States
http://www.ecs.org/
Alternatives that Focus on Curricular, Thematic or Career Emphasis
- Association for Career and Technical Education
http://www.acteonline.org/ - Association of Waldorf Schools of North America
http://www.waldorfeducation.org/ - U.S. Charter Schools
http://www.uscharterschools.org/ - National Asssocation for Charter School Authorizers
http://www.charterauthorizers.org/site/nacsa/ - Magnet Schools of America
http://www.magnet.edu/ - Magnet Schools of Texas
http://www.mstx.org/
Alternatives for Troubled Students/Drop-Out Prevention
- National Dropout Prevention Center/Network
http://www.dropoutprevention.org/
News Articles & Studies
- State Legislation on Alternative Schools for Disruptive Youth
http://www.hamfish.org/framework/frameworks/asds.p
df
- Creating Safe and Drug Free Schools: An Action Guide
http://www.hamfish.org/framework/frameworks/csdfs.
pdf - Educational Alternatives for Vulnerable Youth: Student Neets, Program Types and Research
Directions
http://www.iaae.net/Articles/UrbanEdFinalAlted.pdf - Public Alternative Schools and Programs for Students at Risk of Educational Failure:
2000-01
http://www.iaae.net/Articles/NCES_2001_StudyofAltS
chools.pdf - Choice
http://www.edweek.org/context/topics/issuespage.cf
m?id=43 - School
Choice 2001: What's Happening in the States (The Heritage Foundation:
Policy and Analysis report)
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Education/Schools
/background.cfm - Evidence Based Options to Suspension and
Exclusion: What Works! (presentation by Reece Peterson, University
of Nebraska-Lincoln) http://hamfish.org/topics/docs/alternatives.pdf
- The 100 Best High Schools in America - Alternative Schools: Daring to be Different (Newsweek)
Power Point Presentation
- From Beginning to Outcome: Alternative Education as an Intervention Program to Make Schools Safer
http://www.hamfish.org/framework/frameworks/alted.
ppt