Service Learning

Education Schools Offering More Service Opportunities, Study Finds
Nearly two-thirds of the nation's public schools are coordinating community-service activities for their students, and one-third are providing service-learning programs, according to a federal report released last week.
Michelle Galley, October 6, 1999
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Teaching Kellogg Begins Program To Boost Service Learning
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation will spend $13 million over the next four years in an effort to broaden the use of service-learning curricula in schools.
Julie Blair, May 26, 1999
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Teaching Support for AmeriCorps Program Growing in Congress
Each year AmeriCorps has come before Congress for funding, there's been a knock-down, drag-out fight between Democrats who support the service organization and Republican conservatives who contend it's just another example of a bloated federal government.
Julie Blair, March 31, 1999
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Teaching Teens and Homeless Share Dinner, Discussion, Insight

Howard Juris, 69, admits he used to think of many teenagers as ruffians.

Julie Blair, March 10, 1999
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Teaching Requiring Students To Volunteer May Be Overkill
Schools don't need to force students to volunteer in their communities, new national data from the U.S. Department of Education suggest. The key to kindling a spirit of community service in a school may be simply to make those kinds of opportunities available.
Debra Viadero, December 16, 1998
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Teaching Opinion Community Problem-Solving 101
Launched in Boston a decade ago, the City Year program continues to be one of the best efforts in the nation aimed at providing young people with hands-on opportunities to engage in community-service work--and to grow and learn in the process.
John Shea, February 18, 1998
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Teaching Volunteerism Reduces Teen Pregnancy, Study Finds

A study showing that girls who are involved in community service are less likely to get pregnant and fail in school has sparked interest in volunteerism as an effective tool to help prevent adolescent pregnancy.

Jessica Portner, September 10, 1997
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Teaching Students Need Help Meeting Service Mandates, Study Says

Results from a new study promise to fuel the ongoing debate over whether schools should require students to perform community service.

Jeff Archer, May 14, 1997
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Teaching Seeking To Turn Summit Promises Into Service
The nation's corporate leaders, nonprofit officials, and past and present chief executives made scores of promises last week at the Presidents' Summit for America's Future, but it will fall on people like L. Nathan Hare to make sure they're kept.
Jeff Archer, May 7, 1997
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Student Well-Being & Movement Summit To Issue Call for Service in Name of Youths

With Philadelphia's historic Independence Hall as a backdrop, an impressive gathering of dignitaries is scheduled next week to issue a national call for more Americans to help the nation's youths.

Jeff Archer, April 23, 1997
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Teaching Md. Students Scurry To Fulfill Service Learning
Erin Neubauer spent a recent Wednesday afternoon serving ham, sweet potatoes, and broccoli at the Manna House soup kitchen in Bel Air, Md.
Jeff Archer, April 16, 1997
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Standards & Accountability Opinion Acting and Understanding
The last 15 or 20 years of the 20th century in America have seen a modest growth of interest in "service learning," along with an intense and almost rabid enthusiasm for additional "academic learning."
Harold Howe II, April 2, 1997
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Teaching Clinton Calls for Rewards for Community Service
Washington
Continuing a string of youth-related policy announcements, President Clinton has outlined a plan to reward students and schools that demonstrate a substantial commitment to community service.
Jessica Portner, May 22, 1996
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Teaching Opinion 'No Wonder Johnny Can't Read'
Once again, we have a new federal education plan: the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994. This time, the plan is jointly funded by the U.S. Departments of Labor and Education and is heralded as the savior of American education. Advocates of this federal program claim that it is the remedy for all of society's ills, from poor citizenship and lazy or illiterate workers to spoiled and undisciplined children.
Dani Hansen, May 1, 1996
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5 min read
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