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EDUCATION In recent years alternative educators and homeschooling families have looked beyond the routines and structures of the conventional educational system to develop more open-ended, community-based, collaborative programs for lifelong learning such as featuring introducing homeschool resource centers, democratic schools, Internet-linked distance learning programs and other pioneering efforts to redesign education for the twenty-first century. Since the late 1960s and early 1970s, Colleges and universities have been profoundly changed by the huge influx of "non-traditional" students who have increasingly characterized campuses--women, people of color, and part-time and older students. Projections suggest students will continue to increase in diversity far into the future. After more than a decade of marginally effective reform, diverse stakeholders are coming to the same conclusion: Demanding more from our schools is not enough--the system itself must be fundamentally changed. Systemic reform is proposed as an alternative to tinkering and add-on programs that, critics say, will not meet the demands of business, parents, communities, and students for fundamental change and significant improvement in schools. Although