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"Eden was its name. "An alternative school for happy children." But it closed in disgrace after a student's suicide. Now it's a care home, its grounds neglected and overgrown. Gloria Harkness is its only neighbor, staying close to her son who lives there in the home, lighting up her life and breaking her heart each day. When a childhood friend turns up at her door, Gloria doesn't hesitate before asking him in. He claims a girl from Eden is stalking...
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2017.
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English
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Michelle Kuo arrived in the rural town of Helena, Arkansas, as a Teach for America volunteer in 2004, bursting with optimism and drive. But she soon encountered the jarring realities of life in one of the poorest counties in America. In this memoir, Michelle shares the story of her complicated but rewarding mentorship of one student, Patrick Browning, and his remarkable literary and political awakening. Fifteen and in the eighth grade, Patrick begins...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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In a futuristic alternative school set in a shopping mall where video game-playing students are observed and used by corporate sponsors for market research, Katey "Kid" Dade struggles to figure out where she fits in and whether she even wants to.
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Loosely based on Porter Shreve's own childhood, When the White House Was Ours is the atmospheric and captivating story of a family's struggle to stay together against great odds.
It's 1976, and while the country prepares to celebrate the bicentennial, Daniel Truitt's family is falling apart. His father, Pete, has been fired from yet another teaching job, and his mother, Valerie, is one step away from leaving for good. But when Pete lucks into...
It's 1976, and while the country prepares to celebrate the bicentennial, Daniel Truitt's family is falling apart. His father, Pete, has been fired from yet another teaching job, and his mother, Valerie, is one step away from leaving for good. But when Pete lucks into...
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Is your child depressed, unmotivated, resentful, or angry when it's time to go to school each morning? Does your child come home from school and share stories of being bullied, made fun of, or just plain feeling unheard or understood? Does your child possess unusual talents that go unrecognized or unused at school--or, worse, is he or she seen as strange, weird, or abnormal by teachers or peers? f you answered yes to any of these questions, or your...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"How bad can an alternative school be? Tessa McPhail has landed at New Directions, a last-chance school in Montreal's roughest neighborhood. The kids are tough and the school is far from home, but the very worst thing is the curriculum: 50 percent academics, 50 percent boxing. The other students think boxing is cool. Tessa disagrees. But when a neighbor starts a petition to have New Directions closed down, Tessa discovers something worth fighting...
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2017.
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English
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Falling for a young man who has accepted a job at a hippie Quaker school, Flora leaves her elite prep school to join him, but must make the most of the situation when he fails to show up, in a story told through letters, emails, and news stories.
10) In the hive
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Entertainment One
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Xtra Keys lives by a few simple rules, all rooted in a world of brazen retaliatory violence. Only his infant son is excluded from his hard-shell persona. Xtra hopes to raise his son better than his boozy, razor-edged mother raised him and his younger siblings and he just might get his wish when he's thrust into the world of the HIVE, an unorthodox alternative school full of other discarded boys.
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U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Educational Resources Information Center
Pub. Date
[1997]
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English
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Alternative schools are defined in this report as schools or programs targeting students who are unsuccessful in the traditional school environment. These schools often see their mission as one of dropout prevention. Certain features are usually associated with alternative schools, including a clear mission, a small enrollment, a more personal relationship between students and teachers, clear rules, high standards, and a flexible schedule. A number...
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ABC-CLIO
Pub. Date
©2002
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English
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Presents resources on alternative education and its history, including a chronology, biographies, a bibliography, a directory of organizations, descriptions of school types and programs, and tools for organizing and evaluating a school or program.
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Paradigm Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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This is an in-depth examination of public school alternatives to traditional educational models in the US. This book analyses how urban education can respond to a system growing increasingly standardised and privatised. As an example, Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS), a public alternative schooling model, successfully served predominantly low-income and minority students. It also changed the New York City public school system while promoting...
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U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Educational Resources Information Center
Pub. Date
[1999]
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English
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This report discusses the discipline of students with disabilities in schools, and new provisions in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (idea) that allow school personnel to order a change in a student's placement to an interim alternative educational setting (iaes) under certain circumstances. The first section provides a brief historical perspective on discipline for students with disabilities and the emergence of the iaes concept....