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Library Resources by Series: "ECS Issue Paper"
Total number of Library Resources: 6
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The Education Commission of the States recently updated a 50-state review of state policies that encourage student involvement in decision-making and policymaking. While many institutions of higher education, districts and schools have similar policies, this review was limited to identifying those opportunities codified at the state level in state statute and administrative code. This paper explores and discusses student participation in local...
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This issue paper describes 10 high schools in nine school districts across the country where students are given many opportunities to develop citizenship skills. The schools differ in the kinds of civic knowledge, skills and dispositions fostered by their programs. The paper concludes with a look at promising citizenship education strategies and a summary of policy implications for states, local governments, districts and schools.
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This report examines the "line of sight" between state policy and school practice of citizenship education through the efforts of 14 school districts. The report argues that district practice could improve by explicit articulation of the connection between the civic knowledge, skills and dispositions acquired in school on the one hand, and the obligations of citizenship on the other.
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This issue paper has been designed especially with the community partner in mind. From the school perspective, what can be done to encourage and support the emergence of the agency or organization as a partner? From the agency or organization perspective, what are the significant considerations involved in establishing successful service-learning partnerships? This paper highlights effective strategies, using best practice examples to...
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Well-structured service-learning partnerships are vital to the community college conscience in many ways. Community colleges make up a vast network that can provide critical support to schools and the national effort to train teachers for the 21st century. Through service-learning, tomorrow's teachers can be helped to value civic democracy and civil diversity and to have the human touch, learned and nurtured through service.
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This issue paper examines why administrators support service-learning as a key element in school improvement, what questions they may need to address and how administrators can support and strengthen service-learning in their schools.
