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Community-Based Learning: A Study Of A Model Dropout Prevention Program, Robert D. Shumer
Community-Based Learning: A Study Of A Model Dropout Prevention Program, Robert D. Shumer
School K-12
Dropout prevention is a major concern of school districts throughout the country. In Los Angeles it is estimated that 39% of students fail to graduate from high school. Nationwide, the rate is not too much different, especially in inner city communities where large numbers of Hispanic and African-American youth attend school. While dropout rates have been traditionally high for decades, people continue to ask, why? Many billions of dollars have been spent trying to answer this question and many programs have been developed which attempt to address some of these problems. No one has come up with a comprehensive answer …
Educating For Social Responsibility, Sheldon Berman
Educating For Social Responsibility, Sheldon Berman
Service Learning, General
Schools must help students fight their feelings of powerlessness by developing their sense of community and their confidence that they can make a difference in the world.
Democracy's Next Generation, Donna Fowler
Democracy's Next Generation, Donna Fowler
Civic Engagement
A recent study conducted for People For the American Way recommends three ways schools can help students develop the values and habits of responsible citizenship.
Youth Policy: The Monthly Report On National Youth Programs And Issues (October/November 1990), Youth Policy Institute
Youth Policy: The Monthly Report On National Youth Programs And Issues (October/November 1990), Youth Policy Institute
Special Topics, General
This report features California Gets a "D"; 90% of American Students Don't Pass?; Volunteerism Up; Is Poverty a Reality in America?; and Girl Scouts: Programs Help Youth at Risk.
Student Service Learning And Student Activities -- A Perfect Fit, Deborah Craig
Student Service Learning And Student Activities -- A Perfect Fit, Deborah Craig
Higher Education
"A thousand points of light ... Lifetime national service ... Be part of the solution ... The volunteer initiative ... Corporate volunteerism ... " These and other slogans have become popularized during the past few years as the "Me Generation" is being replaced by the "We Generation." Yes, volunteerism is once more in vogue, but the issues of the '80s and '90s arc different from those of the '60s. Vietnam and civil rights versus illiteracy and homelessness. Today's issues are less personal for today's typical college students. Very few of them have personally experienced illiteracy or having been homeless. But …
Teaching Twenty-First Century Citizenship: Social Psychological Foundations, Allan R. Brandhorst
Teaching Twenty-First Century Citizenship: Social Psychological Foundations, Allan R. Brandhorst
Civic Engagement
Effective American (U.S.) citizenship in the Twenty-first century may require a shift in the value orientation which currently characterizes American life. Two components of the American value system are becoming increasingly dysfunctional. American social science, and accordingly the social studies curriculum, has become narrowly focused on an economic model of human decision-making. Such a one-dimensional model of man, because it invalidates by omission justice-based models of decision-making, leaves American society with a reduced capacity for addressing social dilemmas, particularly commons-type problems. Secondly, American cultural life has been dominated by a heavy and one-sided commitment to primary control. Such an imbalance, …
Comprehensive And Integrative Planning For Community Development, Ronald Shiffman, Susan Motley
Comprehensive And Integrative Planning For Community Development, Ronald Shiffman, Susan Motley
Partnerships/Community
Over the years, both the public and nonprofit sectors have moved away from comprehensive, community-based planning strategies, lured by "quick fix" of a project-by-project development strategy. Unquestionably, these projects have directly benefited some poor individuals and families. More often than not, however, they do little to increase the economic vitality of the community in which the project is developed. To deal effectively with the issues of community disorganization and poverty and to broaden participation in the community renewal process, we must examine in today's light the originally envisioned community development corporation model and its principles. We need to plan, initiate, …
Youth Service: From Youth As Problems To Youth As Resources, Bonnie Benard
Youth Service: From Youth As Problems To Youth As Resources, Bonnie Benard
School K-12
New Paradigm "Youth as problems, or youth as resources? Communities with problems or communities with resources?" These opening sentences to Reaching Out. a recent book on establishing community service programs for youth, encapsulate a critical issue I see confronting anyone relating to or working with young people, whether as parents, teachers, community folk, or prevention advocates and other helping professionals: the framework or perspective from which we view youth in our society today. Whether we view youth as problems or as resources determines not only our expectations for our youth and our actions towards them, but also the type of …
Social Interactions Of Secondary-Aged Students With Severe Handicaps: Implications For Facilitating The Transition From School To Work, Janis Chadsey-Rusch
Social Interactions Of Secondary-Aged Students With Severe Handicaps: Implications For Facilitating The Transition From School To Work, Janis Chadsey-Rusch
Disabilities
The social interactions of a group of 10 students with severe handicaps attending a junior high school campus were described with the use of narrative recording procedures. The students were observed when they arrived at school, during lunch, and when they were engaged in vocational training. In addition, teacher perceptions of behavior were measured, and parents were interviewed regarding their childrens' future vocational opportunities and their social relationships with their peers. The results from this study indicated that (a) these youth of transition age were involved in more task-related than nontask interactions, (b) they were engaged in more interactions with …
Legal Issues In Combining Service And Learning, Michael B. Goldstein
Legal Issues In Combining Service And Learning, Michael B. Goldstein
Special Topics, General
A basic guide to the legal issues involved in programs that combine educational goals with direct involvement in the community - essential reading for any program administrator. The term "school" is used throughout to indicate any educational institution -elementary, secondary, or postsecondary, public or private - which may sponsor a student service-learning program. The term "agency" denotes any public or private community-based organization which may provide work opportunities or training or supervision of students at work sites. Portions of this analysis of legal issues in internships and experiential learning first appeared in Legal Issues Resource Booklet, by Michael B. Goldstein …
Service-Learning Advances School Improvement: A Position Paper From The International Service Learning Initiative, Barbara Gomez
Service-Learning Advances School Improvement: A Position Paper From The International Service Learning Initiative, Barbara Gomez
Special Topics, General
The base on which the United States is built is participatory democracy -achieved only when all citizens are included in choice and decision-making. Nothing could be worse for our nation than to have our children feel alienated from the communities in which they attend school. For more than 200 years the rest of the world has been watching our progress, and as we have succeeded they have made efforts to emulate our sense of individual freedom and collective responsibility for governance.
Bringing Old And Young Together, Jane Angelis
Bringing Old And Young Together, Jane Angelis
Intergenerational
"I just can't get it all done!" It is the classic lament of the teacher stretched too thin by the demands of the classroom. Imagine what educators could accomplish if we only had enough help...
Intergenerational Programs: A Manual For Success, Ramona Frischman
Intergenerational Programs: A Manual For Success, Ramona Frischman
Intergenerational
Although there are always social issues which much be faced by educators and by society, three issues in particular demand attention in the 1990s. Racism, sexism, and a third "ism" - one relatively new to our vocabulary - ageism. Referring to the discrimination against a group or an individual because of age, ageism is most often practiced against members of two distinct groups in our society: those over 60, and those under the ago of 18.
Training Student Organizers Curriculum (Revised Edition), Michael Zamm, Robert Ortner, Beverly Deangelis
Training Student Organizers Curriculum (Revised Edition), Michael Zamm, Robert Ortner, Beverly Deangelis
Curriculum
This second edition of the Training Student Organizers Curriculum has been written to reflect the project organizing experiences of students, teachers and staff participating in the Council on the Environment of New York City's Training Student Organizers Program (TSO) since the first edition of the curriculum was published in 1983. We have expanded the lessons/narratives in Part I to include more information on environmental issues and have also added lessons and/or narratives for specific environmental action projects. The "how to's" of project organizing are described, step by step, in specific improvement projects in Part I, and reviewed as a total …
Differences In Interpersonal Values Among Students Involved In Volunteer Service, R. Thomas Fitch
Differences In Interpersonal Values Among Students Involved In Volunteer Service, R. Thomas Fitch
Higher Education
A study of college students involved m. community service volunteer activities found that students' interpersonal values differed relative to whether they were involved through religious, Social Greek, or service organizations.