An elementary school and a high school get together to their mutual benefit. (Editor)

In a student initiated experimental program, undergraduate students assumed full responsibility for planning, staffing, and running introductory psychology laboratories. They supervised six sessions demonstrating psychological principles. The results of post-session quizzes and questionnaires showed that students absorbed course material, enjoyed…

The continuum of service models presented here is a result of analyzing the various ways in which schools participating in cooperative endeavors relate their student-community involvement activities to the total academic curriculum. (Editor/RK)

Campus Compact: The Project for Public and Community Service is described. It is a national, action-oriented effort to increase student community service by centralizing and increasing access to public service information, heightening awareness of public service, and reducing the disincentives now discouraging students from volunteer work. (MLW)

Project SRS (Students Recruiting Students), a recruitment program developed by Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, is described. Student involvement in planning, directing, and implementing the program is discussed. (TE)

This directory provides information about 91 service learning initiatives taking place in Pennsylvania. It serves as a comprehensive guide to the individual programs put forth by each of the grantees. Introductory material includes tables showing the following: grant distribution by school district, year awarded, and type of grant; grants by…

A peer counseling program was instituted in a California high school to: (1) expand the guidance services of the school by utilizing trained students; (2) make school more meaningful for the peer counselors through personal growth and involvement; and (3) determine the feasibility of implementing peer counseling projects in other high schools in…

This document consists of a 1996-97 final report of Youth Works*AmeriCorps (YW*AC) and a supplemental report with information collected by the Minnesota Department of Children, Families, and Learning. The final report provides information on the third year of collaboration among the Minnesota Commission on National and Community Service,…

Claims that service learning can help middle-school counselors enhance students' self-esteem. Discusses service learning's increasing popularity and its purposes. Describes one such program's initiation in South Carolina which provides tutoring, working with the elderly, and helping the poor. Examines student perceptions of the program and the…

Suggestions are presented for the improvement of current educational programs in the state of New York through student involvement in "recycling" available local resources and the generation of new resources that may be used in cooperative programs involving the entire school and the local community. Benefits of the suggested approach…

The guide provides multiple experience-based activities for use by secondary social studies students as they examine occupational possibilities in their communities. The purposes of the materials are to help students evaluate themselves and their value systems, examine occupations, and become aware of the changing philosophy and value of work in…