... in Reducing Alcohol Use among Alternative School Students Laura M. Hopson and Lori K. Holleran Steiker Although there is a strong evidence base for effective substance abuse prevention programs for youths...

... residential schools family based noncompliance Tier 3 intervention expanded Tier 2 interventions alternative education programs alternative schools parent involvement This chapter covers Tier 3 interventions that are directed toward students with severe, chronic, habitual, and/or complicated problematic...

... the alternative school and adolescent treatment sectors dating to the early 1970s. This chapter describes the growth of alternative schools and adolescent treatment in Minnesota, and it introduces Carol Robson, a Minneapolis social worker who could not find a suitable school for her son, Joshua, who had cerebral...

...). The chapter begins with a summary of the Reformpädagogik Movement, of which Paul Geheeb was a major exponent. From a modest background his life progressed—through a decade of university studies and several attempts to join alternative schools, to prominence as an educator. By contrast, Edith...

... participant Alexis participant Martha participant runaways street living social issues expulsions School-to-Prison Pipeline Wraparound Services Wraparound Incarceration Community Schools Alternative Schools Latina/os It is an unusually cloudy day in Southern California. I drive the forty or so...

... specialized academic instruction, increasing community choice in how to achieve racial balance, school clustering options, and alternative schools—which may have indirectly cleared the way for schools like Phoenix, though that was not the stated intention of the plan. Bernardo also submitted a plan to close...

... into the state’s first recovery high school. Carol and Sheridan Robson created the “New Dimensions School,” a private alternative school, to provide services for children like their son, who had cerebral palsy. The school was housed in a St. Louis Park community center, and the chapter describes how that school...

...Utilizing a solution-focused approach, an alternative high school in Austin, Texas, has been able to impact multiple risk factors in the lives of youth identified as at risk of dropping out of school. Garza High School has become known as a solution-focused alternative school (SFAS) and has...

... African Congress Six PAC 1974 black solidarity emphasis at Council of Independent Black Institutions CIBI independent black institutions community schools alternative schools free schools liberated zones dual power 1970s Julius Nyerere Our education must therefore inculcate a sense...