Authors

Luke F. Frazier

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 1999

Publication Title

educational HORIZONS

First Page

171

Last Page

172

Abstract

It's almost 9:20 on a February morning and the parking lot at Edmondson-Westside High School is mostly quiet. Only a faint thump-thump-thump of the latest urban anthem wafts from a Nissan Sentra double-parked at the entrance. The sky threatens rain as our visiting group of Chicago educators steps from the van and hurries inside. The Chicagoans are here to examine urban service learning in all its glory. And although we have carefully selected sites for our visitors based on their reputations, I am still nervous. Nervous about the quality of what they will see. Nervous that the students won't really be articulate. Nervous that the service learning activity will be soft and not rigorous. Nervous.

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