Service-Learning

Service-learning integrates the accomplishment of a needed task with educational growth

Service Experience and Educational Growth

What the Establishment can\u27t grasp is that you can get a better education from two years with VISTA or the Peace Corps than from four years in your major universitie

A Call for National Service

There is a growing interest in a national youth service for this country. A Gallup poll conducted earlier this year revealed a positive response (77 percent) by young people in the 18- to 24-year-old age group to a system of voluntary national service, which would offer them an opportunity to serve in the military or do nonmilitary work for one year

National Service: A Forty-Three-Year Crusade

National Service is the cause to which Donald Eberly has dedicated his life: all of his professional positions have been related directly or indirectly to that cause

National Youth Service: A Developing Institution

Twenty years ago, it was rare to find students integrating community service with their formal education. The phrase service learning had been born only a few years earlier, and was not yet in common usage. Today, service learning is fairly common in high schools and their surrounding communities. Many high schools and a few school systems have made it a requirement for graduation. And the federal government now supports service learning both with exhortation and with dollars

National Service Literature

President Bill Clinton declared on the night of his election that he would make national service one of his top priorities

National Service: An Issue For the Eighties

As SURELY AS Social Security is an issue in I984, national youth service will be a major issue before the end of this decade. A combination of powerful forces is certain to place the debate about universal service on the nation\u27s agenda

National Youth Service

A national youth service program could attack two of the most serious urban problems-the lack of needed services and the excessive levels of unemployment among restless young people

Youth Socialization Via National Service

As a frame of reference for this paper, I have chosen the 1977 keynote address given by Harry Silberman to the Society for Experiential Education. At that time he outlined five major arguments against using work experience as a vehicle for the socialization (of youth) to adulthood

National Service: Its Rationale and Design

Compulsory is a pejorative word today. Unless we intend to damn American education, we speak of universal, rather than compulsory, education