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Clearinghouse on Educational Policy and Management Trends and Issues: School Choice--Alternative Schools An overview of alternative schools in America from the late 1960s. http://eric.uoregon.edu/trends_issues/choice Alternative Schools: Diverted but not Defeated Dr. Kathy Emery’s comprehensive historical overview of alternative schooling in America concludes rather pessimistically: “as long as corporate financed institutions promote standardized testing and support alternative schools only if those schools submit to externally imposed standardized aims, then no true alternative school movement can exist.” A MUST-READ http://www.educationanddemocracy.org/Emery/Emery_AltSchoolsPaper.htm