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Murray  \nCarleton R. Holt  \nUniversity of Arkansas  \nThe purpose of this study was to explore the elements of the alternative education experience significant to successful completion of the program. This phenomenological paradigm provided the framework for all aspects of the qualitative study. Students, parents, administrators, and staff members of two alternative programs in the southeast Kansas area were the pool used to draw the participants. Criterion involved in selecting the student participants were those who were or had been enrolled in the middle level or high school alternative education program in two southeast Kansas districts, currently 18 years of age or older, and who had successfully completed one or both programs. Qualitative methods used to accomplish the research design were: (a) formal, semi-standardized, open-ended interviews with 12 current or former alternative education students, eight parents of program completers, and 10 alternative education staff members; (b) evaluation of student journals from the middle school alternative school; and (c) obtrusive and unobtrusive classroom observations.  \nIntroduction  \nIt is apparent that some students fail to prosper in the traditional classroom setting. Debate has occurred throughout the years as to the source for ensuring academic success for all students. Is it the public school system? Is it the student? Can it be the parents? What about all stakeholders? The blame game focuses attention on the problem, not the solution. The system, the students, the parents, and all additional stakeholders own accountability to effectively educate all students.  \nNCPEA Education Leadership Review of Doctoral Research, Vol. 1, No. 1 – March 2014 ISSN: 1532-0723 © 2014 National Council of Professors of Educational Administration  \nThis manuscript may not be used commercially or edited. When quoting portions of this text, attribution  \nto the author/s is required.  \nPublic school design plus academic, social, and personal concerns are responsible for students failing in school and failing to graduate. A few of the most frequently noted causal issues are:  \n(1) schools that disregard various student learning styles;  \n(2) irrelevant curriculum;  \n(3) inadequate counseling services;  \n(4) delayed intervention;  \n(5) habitual truancy;  \n(6) substance abuse;  \n(7) single-parent home;  \n(8) one or both parents are high school drop outs;  \n(9) one or both parents are substance abusers;  \n(10) one or both parents have been, or are currently incarcerated;  \n(11) extreme poverty;  \n(12) teen parent;  \n(13) unsuccessful in traditional school model;  \n(14) below grade level performance in core content areas;  \n(15) high mobility;  \n(16) involvement in foster care system;  \n(17) raised by grandparents ;  \n(18) verbal, physical, or sexual abuse;  \n(19) neglect;  \n(20) credit deficient ;  \n(21) gang affiliation;  \n(22) behavior/discipline issues;  \n(23) low self-esteem; and  \n(24) lack of social group or appropriate social skills (Bridgeland, Dilulio, & Morison, 2006) .  \nConsidering the complexity of the academic, social, and emotional challenges facing America’s youth, it is difficult for schools to know how to address this critical situation. Time, personnel, effective approaches, resources, and funding are all obstacles that prevent schools and programs from intervening in an appropriate manner.  \nTheoretical Framework  \nThe early alternative schools movement was primarily supported and developed from the basic tenets of the progressive education theory, generated from the progressive education movement in the United States between the 1890s to the 1930s. 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