Here Comes Growing to Greatness 2005
g2g 2005
NYLC's Growing to Greatness: The State of Service Learning Project culminates its first two years documenting service-learning's unfolding story and young people's contributions to society, with the publication of "Growing to Greatness 2005." The report features a host of articles by service-learning experts, along with profiles of community-based organizations and service-learning activity in 21 states. The report will be released on Friday, March 18, at the National Service Learning Conference in Long Beach, Calif.
This year's highlights include
- Howard Gardner on the ways young professionals become committed to quality work and ethical standards.
- Rob Shumer on the seminal service-learning studies that have advanced the field.
- The Search Institute on links between service-learning and academic achievement in high-poverty schools.
- Richard Bradley on studies that capture service-learning's scale, scope, and impact on the state level.
- Lori Vogelgesang, of the UCLA Higher Education Research Institute, on the most recent findings of the Freshman Survey, one of the few longitudinal studies that measure the longer-term impact of service-learning.
- A special 15th-anniversary look at Learn and Serve America.
Growing to Greatness is the first comprehensive national study of the state of service-learning in kindergarten through 12th grade. A radical change in perspective, G2G measures indicators of how youths are valuable to society, instead of the more common approach of measuring their shortcomings. In doing so, it not only highlights the field of service-learning, but also recasts the ways young people are viewed by society.
Following its release, the 2005 report will be available at the conference and through this website. Supplementary materials will also be available online.
Growing to Greatness is sponsored by the State Farm Companies Foundation.
