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The Community Is Their Textbook: Maryland's Experiment With Mandatory Service For Students, Suzanne Goldsmith
The Community Is Their Textbook: Maryland's Experiment With Mandatory Service For Students, Suzanne Goldsmith
School K-12
At its best, service learning enriches both students and their communities. But creating good programs isn't easy.
Community Service: Mandatory Or Voluntary?, Diane Loup
Community Service: Mandatory Or Voluntary?, Diane Loup
School K-12
School districts struggle to find the best approach for bringing a real-world aspect to learning.
The Effects Of "Mandatory Volunteerism" On Intentions To Volunteer, Arthur A. Stukas, Mark Snyder, E. Gil Clary
The Effects Of "Mandatory Volunteerism" On Intentions To Volunteer, Arthur A. Stukas, Mark Snyder, E. Gil Clary
Special Topics, General
With the widespread emergence of required community-service programs comes a new opportunity to examine the effects of requirements on future behavioral intentions. To investigate the consequences of such “mandatory volunteerism” programs, we followed students who were required to volunteer in order to graduate from college. Results demonstrated that stronger perceptions of external control eliminated an otherwise positive relation between prior volunteer experience and future intentions to volunteer. A second study experimentally compared mandates and choices to serve and included a premeasured assessment of whether students felt external control was necessary to get them to volunteer. After being required or choosing …
The Constitutionality Of Public School Community Service Programs, Marie Bittner
The Constitutionality Of Public School Community Service Programs, Marie Bittner
Special Topics, General
The Third Circuit has affirmed the constitutionality of mandatory community service programs for students in public schools. The ruling came in the Steirer case where two students in Bethlehem, P A, challenged the right of their school to require them to perform community service work.
Demanding Good Deeds Breeds Performance Anxiety: Students And Families Who Are Challenging Requirements To Perform Voluntary Community Services, Eric Felton
Special Topics, General
Students are beginning to challenge in court school districts that force children to work in community projects as part of the requirements for graduation. They object on grounds of involuntary servitude stipulated in the 13th amendment and on moral principles of mandatory giving.
Service Learning Requirements In The High School, Elizabeth Anne Skelton
Service Learning Requirements In The High School, Elizabeth Anne Skelton
School K-12
Thousands of high school students across the nation perform some form of community service everyday. They tutor younger students, care for elderly people, assist physically challenged peers and aid in local government offices. Students involved in these projects openly testify to the many benefits possible from service learning activities. Recent qualitative studies also indicate that students gain a greater sense of self, increase their concern for fellow human beings, demonstrate better problem solving abilities, and integrate classroom learning more readily with real-world needs (Conrad and Hedin, 1982). Former Maryland State Superintendent David Hornbeck so firmly believed in the power and …
Immediato V. Rye Neck Sch. Dist., United States District Court Southern District Of New York
Immediato V. Rye Neck Sch. Dist., United States District Court Southern District Of New York
Special Topics, General
Plaintiffs, Daniel Immediato, a Rye Neck high school student and resident of Mamaroneck, New York in this district, together with his parents, Diane and Eugene Immediato, filed this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 challenging the constitutionality of a mandatory community service program ("the Program"), described below, established by Defendants Rye Neck School District and Board of Education. Plaintiffs contend that the Program violates the students' rights under the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as the parents' rights to direct the upbringing and education of their children under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Mandated Service And Moral Learning, Robert K. Fullinwider
Mandated Service And Moral Learning, Robert K. Fullinwider
Special Topics, General
Recently the Maryland State Board of Education added a new condition for getting a high school diploma: students must perform 75 hours of "service." The activities that count as "service" will be determined by individual districts, and may include everything from tutoring younger students and visiting nursing home residents to working with nonprofit community organizations. The new requirement builds on an already existing voluntary student service program supported by the Maryland Student Service Alliance, a public-private partnership. Although some municipal school systems in the U.S. impose similar requirements, the Maryland school board is the first to adopt a statewide policy.
A Mandate For Liberty: Requiring Education-Based Community Service, Benjamin R. Barber
A Mandate For Liberty: Requiring Education-Based Community Service, Benjamin R. Barber
Special Topics, General
The extraordinary rise in American interest in community service has inspired widespread participation by the nation's young in service programs. It has also provoked a profound and telling debate about the relationship of service to voluntarism on the one hand, and to civic education and citizenship on the other. Two complementary approaches to service have emerged that are mutually supportive but also in a certain tension with one another. The first aims at attracting young volunteers, particularly students, out of the classroom and into service projects as part of a strategy designed to strengthen altruism, philanthropy, individualism, and self-reliance. The …