ALTENATIVE EDUCATION

Alternative Education Alternative education caters to multifarious groups of students or unprofessional classified according to their needs and circumstances in life. Alternative education programs were designed because of pressures from concerned parents, teachers, students and government officials to ameliorate substandard education and dangerous environment in most public schools. Seeing its benefits, educators and educational institutions broaden the scope of this alternative to promote education and extend it to working adults to further their training and …

…at a rate faster than anything in our society, alternative education is more likely here to stay. The current voucher proposal hopes to further support and strengthen this new trend in education. References Unger, H. (1998). But what if I don’t want to go to college? (2nd ed.). New York: Facts On File Thomas, C. (1997, April 16). Alternative education, Retrieved August 22, 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://www.escambia.k12.fl.us/instres/alted/intro.html