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Support For K-12 Service-Learning Practice: A Brief Review Of The Research, Shelley Billig
Support For K-12 Service-Learning Practice: A Brief Review Of The Research, Shelley Billig
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Each year, more K-12 schools and districts are adopting service-learning as an educational reform strategy to help students achieve :important educational goals. The National Center for Education Statistics estimates that service-learning is being practiced in. more than one-third of all public schools in the United States and in about half of all public high schools. The 1999 National Student. Service-Learning and Community Service Survey found that rates of participation in service-learning progressively increase across grade levels. Passion for the practice of service-learning sometimes reaches evangelical proportions. However, by its nature, the practice of service-learning varies widely, and even ardent practitioners …
A Way With Words: A Unique Approach To Literacy And Career Development, Allyson D. Brathwaite
A Way With Words: A Unique Approach To Literacy And Career Development, Allyson D. Brathwaite
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This article describes a unique collaboration between the Career Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia Public Schools and the community. A WAY WITH WORDS is an "America Reads" community literacy program that has enriched the educational experience of graduate, undergraduate and K-5 students since 1996. Teams of undergraduate volunteers led by graduate students in Counseling Psychology and Educational Leadership (ELPA) tutor local children in an effort to increase literacy. The teams interact and communicate with children, parents, teachers and principals as they serve during school and in after-school programs that they co create with school administrators and community members. …
Eleven Principles Of Effective Character Education, Tom Lickona, Eric Schaps, Catherine Lewis
Eleven Principles Of Effective Character Education, Tom Lickona, Eric Schaps, Catherine Lewis
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There is no single script for effective character education, but there are some important basic principles. The following eleven principles serve as criteria that schools and other groups can use to plan a character education effort and to evaluate available character education programs, books, and curriculum resources.
Executive Summary - The Philadelphia Freedom Schools Junior Leader Project, Shelley H. Billig
Executive Summary - The Philadelphia Freedom Schools Junior Leader Project, Shelley H. Billig
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The Philadelphia Freedom Schools Junior Leader Project is a bold initiative to foster leadership and civic engagement for young people in the Philadelphia School District. Beginning in 1999, the school district project was developed to help young African American and other high school students to become strong leaders in their schools and communities. The Junior Leader project recruited freshmen, sophomores, and juniors in high school to learn about their heritage; work with young children to help them gain academic skills; participate in meaningful dialogue about social justice; learn and engage in community action strategies; develop leadership skills; and create pathways …
Service As A Pathway To Political Participation: What Research Tells Us, Tobi Walker
Service As A Pathway To Political Participation: What Research Tells Us, Tobi Walker
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Historically, there has been a rich American tradition connecting service to political engagement. To test whether this pathway remains significant, research on the political outcomes of young people's service participation is reviewed. The author argues that most research operationalizes citizenship as a helping behavior, contributing to a perspective that service is an alternative to politics. The article Concludes with a set of recommendations for reinvigorating service to support more robust political participation.
Consortia And Institutional Partnerships For Community Development, Mitchell R. Williams
Consortia And Institutional Partnerships For Community Development, Mitchell R. Williams
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The need for effective community development to address social, economic, and environmental issues is perhaps stronger now than at any other time. Making communities functional and livable is critically important to our society. There is a renewed interest in using the resources of higher education to assist communities and regions through community development initiatives (Livermore and Midgley, 1998; Usnick, Shove, and Gissy, 1997), To illustrate the contribution of colleges and universities to building sustainable communities, this chapter examines the development of community leaders through institutional partnerships and consortia involving different types of institutions of higher education.