Table of contents

1. Foreword
2. Contents
3. About the Editors
4. Introduction
5. Part I Local Democracy Within Bureaucracy: Critical Perspectives
6. Chapter 1 Curriculum Development in Alternative Schools: What Goes on in Alternative Schools Stays in Alternative Schools
7. Chapter 2 Alpha Alternative School: Making a Free School Work, in a Public System
8. Chapter 3 Tracing Tensions in Humanization and Market-Based Ideals: Philadelphia Alternative Education in the Past and Present
9. Chapter 4 Alternative Schooling and Black Students: Opportunities, Challenges, and Limitations
10. Chapter 5 Reverberations of Neo-Liberal Policies: The Slow Dilution of Secondary Alternative Schooling in the Toronto District School Board
11. Part II Historical Perspectives
12. Chapter 6 Private to Public: Alternative Schools in Ontario 1965–1975
13. Chapter 7 Looking Backward and Forward: Fifty Years of Alternative Schools
14. Chapter 8 From the Release of the Hall–Dennis Report to the Founding of Alpha II Alternative School—My Personal Journey
15. Chapter 9 An Administrator’s Perspective on the Politics of Alternative Schooling in Toronto
16. Part III Teaching
17. Chapter 10 Learning to Teach and Becoming a Science Teacher at City School
18. Chapter 11 New Beginnings
19. Chapter 12 Notes on Big Ideas and Incremental Change
20. Part IV School Stories
21. Chapter 13 Contact—An Alternative School for Working-Class and Racialized Students
22. Chapter 14 Inglenook: A Cozy Place by the Fire
23. Chapter 15 The Name Unspoken: Wandering Spirit Survival School
24. Chapter 16 The Triangle Program: Canada’s Only High School Program for LGBTQ Students
25. Chapter 17 Credit Factory or Alternative Education for Adults? Student Re-Engagement Through Multi-Media Arts and Social Justice Education: A Transdisciplinary Pilot Project
26. Chapter 18 Resistance: Student Activism, SEED Alternative School, and the Struggle Against Streaming
27. Part V Epilogue
28. Chapter 19 Some Last Words
29. Epilogue
30. Further Reading
31. Index