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The Yellow School Bus Project: Helping Homeless Students Get Ready for School.

Vissing, Yvonne – Phi Delta Kappan, 2003

Describes the Yellow School Bus Project, a community program jointly sponsored by religious, civic, fraternal, business, and nonprofit organizations in Durham, New Hampshire, to provide homeless children with supplies and clothes to help them succeed in school. (PKP)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Involvement, Community Organizations, Community Programs

Community Service Learning and School Improvement in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Anderson, Virginia; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1991

Educators in Springfield, Massachusetts, see connections between the current school reform agenda and their own program of Community Service Learning. Staff see the program as a way to increase student learning, enrich the curriculum, and foster the spirit of caring and lifetime service. (MLH)

Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs