The Lead Article  |   Talking Points   |   Project Profiles   |   FYI  

Spring 2006, Vol. 12, No. 1

In this issue,  Service- Learning NETWORK explores how—and why—the juvenile justice system is borrowing from service learning and other school-based methodologies. The Lead Article, “Introducing Community Service Learning,” explores the connection between court-mandated community service, youth courts, and school-based service learning. Talking Points features a chart that underscores  the connections between the goals and objectives of court-based balanced and restorative justice and those of school-based service learning. In Project Profiles, we feature two youth courts, one in New York, one in California, that have integrated service-learning components deep into their programs. FYI looks at “The California Survey of Civic Education,” a study of the civic knowledge, skills, and commitments of graduating high school seniors throughout the state.