Document Type
Report
Publication Date
3-2001
Abstract
Service-learning is a teaching method that combines service to the community with classroom curriculum. Service-learning is more than merely community service. It is a hands-on approach to mastering subject material while fostering civic responsibility. On a programmatic level, service-learning in America is thriving. Through funds from the Corporation for National Service, almost every state has resources and some level of a service-learning program. Although practitioners and other service-learning advocates have long regarded service-learning as a way to increase student achievement and student civic engagement and decrease a host of problems, such as drop-out rates and school crime and violence, there is now a growing interest from policymakers. They are beginning to wonder what service-learning policy looks like and what other states are doing with service-learning policy.
Recommended Citation
Anthes, Kathy, "Institutionalized Service-Learniing in the 50 States" (2001). Service Learning, General. 34.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/slceslgen/34
Comments
© 2003 by the Education Commission of the States (ECS).