Partnerships with Elementary and Secondary Education

The author proposes that higher education institutions must extend and enhance their partnerships with elementary and secondary schools to advance service-learning on both levels. The chapter examines higher education/K-12 partnerships, with an emphasis on how service-learning enhances partnerships. Policy implications, examples, challenges, strategies, and recommendations for moving partnerships to greater depth, scope, quality, and reciprocity are also covered. The chapter concludes with a view of the future based on the concept of partnerships beginning at the preschool level and extending beyond the baccalaureate.