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Alternative education, also known as non-traditional education or educational alternative, describes a number of approaches to teaching and learning other than traditional publicly- or privately-run schools. These approaches can be applied to all students of all ages, from infancy to adulthood, and all levels of education.

I do think alternative learning is very important. Not everyone learns the same. But at the same time I don't really agree with homeschooling for a child's whole life. Yes homeschooling may be necessary sometimes but I am a strong believer of social interaction and think it is very important.

I think it is really cool that they are coming up with multiple forms of education. It makes it so much easier to learn, and it takes some of the anxiety out of the learning process when you can find the best way that fits your learning needs.

Dr. Chopra writes this article for the AMA's Journal of Ethics as a practicing CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) Practitioner. Dr. Chopra relates errors in the research in Allopathic Medicine as well as the declining effect of medicine. He relates to Holistic and Allopathic Medicine as a divorces couple who are beginning to reconcile and to establish a new the relationship.

date 11/16/2010. editorial stating the writers views that only a small minority are complaining how the tsa conducts their searches without offering any constructive alternatives. The last paragraph of the editorial is important, the writer states " But before a vocal minority forces the issue, everyone needs to calm down and remember that the security-line indignities are a necessary byproduct of an era in which terrorists remain fixated on blowing jetliners out of the sky."

this a good source to learn about flat tax.  it would be a great alternative to are system that we have now  

This article speaks of a post 9/11 America that walks a fine line of social profiling in the name of stopping terrorist acts. It speaks of both the injustice of many Japanese-Americans during WWII in the past and the challenges of keeping America safe from terrorism in the present without making the same mistakes of racial inequality.

Should racial profiling be illegal and the alternatives that could be affective like ID cards

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Thank you, I have reviewed the articles and have become intrigued with learning more about childrens rights declaration.

With all the dangers that smoking cigarettes conjure, have we finally found a "safer" alternative? The electronic form is already banned in some countries (mainly for monetary purposes). It doesn't violate any laws.

Governments needs to help up save our plants better. There has to be new laws to protect out planet

The pros and cons of SOPA and PIPA are discussed in this article. There is also an alternative introduced in this website about the OPEN Act.

Media Privacy, copyright infringement is what PIPA and SOPA is about. they want to block certain domains like the pirate bay and mega upload from giving away movies and music. Even payperview fights are on the pirate bay. for example, if comcast or century link didn't want you to access piratebay.org they could block it but there is still a way to get to the website through other ways so PIPA and SOPA had to drop it.

This is a neutral article on the SOPA law. It describes what SOPA is, who is opposed and who is for the law, and what the outcome of voting for the law was. It also gives some alternative ideas to secure the internet from piracy overseas, but not invade the privacy of our people.

This site provides a pros and cons list to spanking. Also provides alternative methods to discipline and long term affects.

This article is pretty Lengthy. It discusses different views and reasonings to be pro choice on the topic of abortion. It talks about avaoiding abortion and the personal aspects of it.

This article covers a view on abortion from a pro-choice stand point. The author brings up alternatives to abortion, however they also address what makes the other options complicated if not impossible. The article also covers reasoning behind a person choosing abortion.

This site offers information about what goes into processed foods and how it can affect your health. It provides alternative solutions and ways to improve your diet. It also encourages you to take action in a variety of ways.

Very informative website encouraging ideas to eat healthier. I enjoy reading about new and changes ideas in the food culture because it is evolving just like everything else in the world. Maybe someday everything will be organic and I believe the world will be a much healthier place overall.

Provides state by state breakdown of government assistance given to recipients. Shows growth of tax money being used per year. Discusses solutions and alternatives used by different countries.

This site is about the harms of BSL not only to the dog but to the owner as well. It also provides information on how to take action against BSL and better alternatives to BSL.

This research presents a new twist in the argument over global warming and how we are responsible for the predicament that we are in today, as one international community. I believe that we need to start becoming more independent on our resources and need to reduce drastically on our outsourcing alternative fuel that we don't have, to use.

Individuals are finding another way to educate their children. As each state has an education law that requires children to but in school. With home education children have the ability to learn and embrace their interests.

In this article, the author talks about the public schooling system as a forced act on our society that actually makes the future of education worse for us. Instead of letting our children think for themselves, learn the trades they wish to learn, and force them to attend for a certain amount of time, we are taking away their personal freedoms of education. Many people are pushed to thinking that a set school rubric will help every child to get the education they need for their future, but according to the views of the author, they don't. The author's view is that society should be looking more into home schooling and trade schooling to help the United States grow to be more productive for the future. Every generation, school is seen more as a prison; molding our future to think as the way the government wants them to think. But if we were to give freedom to complete schooling outside of force, children will regain their excitement for learning and pursue to better our nation on their own free will.

An interesting article on the state of our education system and how the direction we have gone with it seems to be lacking. Lending itself to breaking the ideas that people have about how a child "must" learn, the article offers up that those ideas are not often the case.

Is spanking children an acceptable form of discipline? This article gives the pros, cons, discusses non-abusive spanking and alternate methods of discipline.

Some parents have the idea that allowing their teenagers and friends to drink in their private homes as opposed to attending unsupervised parties is a safer alternative. However, adults can end up legally liable or even in jail for supplying alcohol to other people's children.

The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom is a national organization committed to creating a political, legal, and social environment in the United States that advances equal rights of consenting adults who practice forms of alternative sexual expression. NCSF is primarily focused on the rights of consenting adults in the SM-leather-fetish, swing, and polyamory communities, who often face discrimination because of their sexual expression.