Linking Service Learning & Standards

This issue of Service-Learning Network explores the connection between service learning and standards-based education. In the lead article, Service Learning and Standards: Are they Compatible?, Brian Loney, an educator from Golden, Colorado, applies his extensive experience with Active Citizenship Today, a successful social-studies service-learning program, to a representative set of content standards.

Program Profiles features several innovative classroom- community projects that link service learning to standards-based assessment. Review Corner also takes up the service-learning-to-standards challenge with descriptions of two publications that link or assess service learning in the context of standards-based education.