New Service-Learning Fact Sheets Added

Posted by on February 21, 2003

New NSLC Fact Sheets Added!

Check them out at http://www.servicelearning.org/library/fact_sheets/index.html

The new ones have red “New” images beside them. You may visit them individually at:

Why Districts, Schools, and Classrooms Should Practice Service-Learning
Source: RMC Research Corporation, January 2003. This fact sheet highlights some key reasons why districts, schools and classrooms should practice service-learning.
http://www.servicelearning.org/library/fact_sheets/why_sl.html

Citizenship and Service-Learning in K-12 Schools
Source: RMC Research Corporation, January 2003. This fact sheet provides a very brief discussion of several of the emergent issues discovered in the research and provides extended abstracts of a few key studies.
http://www.servicelearning.org/library/fact_sheets/citizenship.html

Risk Management and Liability in Higher Education Service-Learning
Source: Tanis V. Mihalynuk and Sarena D. Seifer, Community Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH), February 2003. This fact sheet provides background information and a describes a systematic approach to establishing a safe, minimal risk environment for all involved participants-students, faculty, supervisors, transporters, community agency representatives and others.
http://www.servicelearning.org/library/fact_sheets/risk_he.html

Denise Lee
Program Manager
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
“America’s Source for Service-Learning”
http://www.servicelearning.org
Toll-free 866-245-7378, ext. 139
denisel@etr.org