{"id":5569,"date":"2008-11-17T21:47:47","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T21:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5569"},"modified":"2008-11-17T21:47:47","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T21:47:47","slug":"service-learning-shrinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5569","title":{"rendered":"service learning shrinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Des Moines, IA) I&#8217;m here to talk to teachers, students, and nonprofit leaders about service-learning: the intentional combination of community service with academic work. This is a big deal&#8211;24% of schools offer it. But the prevalence has declined, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cns.gov\/about\/role_impact\/performance_research.asp\">new study<\/a> by the Corporation for National and Community Service&#8211;down from 32 percent in 1999.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peterlevine.ws\/images\/prevalence.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s my sense that the movement for service-learning has reached a crisis point. It isn&#8217;t included in federal education law; it isn&#8217;t a priority in an era of concern about reading and math; the federal funding has been cut (in real terms) since 2001; and the quality of programs is so uneven that outsiders could be reasonably skeptical about its value. On the other hand, the best programs are superb; they fit the outlook of the incoming administration; and there is strong support for service-learning in the Kennedy-Hatch Serve-America bill that both Senators McCain and Obama promised to sign. That bill would direct most resources to poor districts, which today are much less likely to offer service-learning. So we could be poised for improvements in quality, quantity, and eqaulity. Or else service-learning could falter if Kennedy-Hatch isn&#8217;t fully funded and the grassroots movement continues to shrink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Des Moines, IA) I&#8217;m here to talk to teachers, students, and nonprofit leaders about service-learning: the intentional combination of community service with academic work. This is a big deal&#8211;24% of schools offer it. But the prevalence has declined, according to a new study by the Corporation for National and Community Service&#8211;down from 32 percent in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}