Standards for Effective Service-Learning Practice

Service-learning organizations and practitioners have been working together for more than a decade to develop standards of effective practice for Pre-K-12 service-learning. Discover what decades of educational research and the experience of seasoned service-learning practitioners and participants have come to understand about what attributes of service-learning best foster academic, civic, and social gains for students.

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Can Service-Learning Help Reduce the Achievement Gap?

New Research Points Toward the Potential of Service-Learning for Low-Income Students
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2005
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Peter Scales
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Eugene Roehlkepartain

The Generator, August 2007

Reflection

This issue of The Generator inaugurates a new format that helps teachers and other service-learning practitioners make better use of current service-learning research. Articles include an update on translating the Principles of Effective Practice for K-12 Service-Learning into national standards, a research summary on how reflection facilitates high-quality learning for students, and a description of a method young children can use to select service-learning projects. more »

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Publication year: 
2007
Authors: 
Caryn Pernu
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Wokie Weah
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Maddy Wegner
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Nate Schultz
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Marybeth Neal
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Siddarth Damania
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Nate Schultz