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Librarian » Blog Archive » ADULT EDUCATION ACT of 1966. 12.21. 206. No. 247.
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Restoring the balance between academics and civic engagement in public schools [WorldCat.org]
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Visions of Service: The Future of the National and Community Service Act.
This publication contains 36 short essays on the reauthorization of the National and Community Service Act. It begins with two introductory papers: "Visions of Service: The Future of the National and Community Service Act" (Sagawa, Halperin) and "Historical Background: An Overview" (Sagawa). Section I, Why Service?, contains 15 essays: "A Mandate for Liberty" (Barber); "The Challenge of Community Building" (Dirks); "Large-Scale Community Service: Two Considerations" (Etzioni); "A Source of New Leaders" (Myers); "How the National and Community Service Act Can Help Advance Education Reform" (Gomez); "Needed: A More Compelling Mission and Stronger State Organizations" (Kielsmeier); "It's a Worrisome Thing..." (Parsons); "Making Service-Learning the Center of the Debate on School Reform" (Townsend); "Moving in from the Margins" (Wutzdorff); "Our Vision of Youth Service" (Young People for National Service); "America 2000 and Service-Learning: A Promising Partnership" (Youth Service America Interns); "Youth Service: Pervasive, Local, Empowered, Positively Driven, Personally Invested" (Calhoun); "Youth Service Is Also about Changing Adults" (Halperin); "Educating for Service" (Hesburgh); and "The Heroic Search" (Sawyer). Section II, What Is Service?, has three essays: "What Is Wrong with This Picture?" (Chi); "The Critical Link between Service and Advocacy" (Hausner); and "Youth Service: The Best Solution-Strategy Around" (Wolf). Section III, Who Shall Serve?, consists of four essays: "Community Service and Student Financial Aid" (Gupta); "Linking Young and Old through Intergenerational Service Programs" (Scannell); "A Vision of Opportunity and Diversity" (Schmiegelow); and "Challenging Conventional Wisdom about Racial and Social Class Integration in Service Programs" (Stoneman). Five essays are found in Section IV, Where Are We Headed?: "Summer and Service: Transforming Youth Service into a Movement" (Briscoe); "Youth Service: Building Community" (Burkhardt); "Toward National Service as an Institution" (Eberly); "Comm
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What's Wrong with Youth Service? Occasional Papers.
The resurgence of national interest in youth service is due, in large part, to the national organizations that have grown so vigorously in recent years. Some explanations for the almost sudden reappearance of youth service as a nationwide issue are: (1) many Americans are fed up with narcissism, personal gratification, and me-centered pursuits; (2) Americans have discovered that they are no longer number one in the world; (3) the nation's leaders in industry, government, and the media have faced the potentially disastrous shortage of productive young people; (4) children and youth suffer from deficits in learning skills and self-esteem; and (5) a growing body of research shows again that education should include both schooling and experience. Along with the growing interest in and popularity of youth service go a number of pitfalls of which leaders in the youth service movement need to be aware. Service should not be seen as a way of "privatizing" the financing and provision of major public services. Service is not cost free but requires the outlay of additional dollars even though it creates tax savings and public savings. Service programs must be quality programs. Youth service must become an integral part of the formal education process. Finally, service should not be viewed as little more than another form of philanthropy or social responsibility. Every young person is a potential contributor. (YLB)
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Emerging Educational Policy Issues in the Federal City: A Report from Washington. Occasional Paper No. 42.
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Block Grants or Categorical Aids? What Do We Really Want--Consolidation, Simplification, Decentralization?
Much of the contention and rhetoric would lessen if there were more federal money for existing block grants and fewer categorical programs; if the federal money were made available in a timely fashion; if Congress would simplify existing programs and attempt less regulation; and if an effective system of coordination and joint human services were implemented. Rather than get hung up in the tired rhetoric of choosing between block grants and categorical aid, it would be better if educators considered what the objectives of federal aid are. With objectives more closely understood, the means to attain them should be discerned more easily than in today's muddled atmosphere. (Author/IRT)
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First Principles - The Treasonous Clerk: Reviving the Culture Wars, Again
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FEATURE: Alternative Education Models
School reform expert Chester Finnon what Americans can learn from foreign schools.
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Just What Are Schools to Do? The Aims and Purposes of Education
"Schools are never just about education. For that matter, education is never just about education. The school as an institution is founded and supported as a means to some end."
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ADF Alliance Alert » Albert Mohler: Just What Are Schools to Do? The Aims and Purposes of Education
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American Education, Panel 1 206212-1 : C-SPAN Video Library, Created by Cable. Offered as a Public Service.
Economists and Educators debated the economic implications of the state of american education.
9:00 - 9:20 Welcome: Librarian of Congress, Dr. James H. Billington
9:20 - 10:30 Interpreting the Data with Andreas Schleicher, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and Gary Phillips, American Institutes of Research
The forum "Remaining Competitive in a Flat World," held at the Library of Congress, was sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Bill Bennett on American Education 206212-2 : C-SPAN Video Library, Created by Cable. Offered as a Public Service.
10:45 - 11:15 Keynote Speaker: Former Education Secretary, William J. Bennett
The forum "Remaining Competitive in a Flat World," held at the Library of Congress, was sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Pure Church: Another Reason "Race" Makes No Sense
"In 1904, the Mexican-American family shown here adopted white orphans from New York through the Catholic church in their Arizona mining town. These families conformed to religious, but not to racial matching. Armed white vigilantes removed the children and placed them in white Protestant families instead. Transracial adoptions might occur when children of color were inadvertently placed with white parents, but the reverse was unthinkable and intolerable."
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SPARE THE ROD, SAY SOME | National Center for Policy Analysis
"The Council of Europe, a 47-country body, has recently launched a campaign to abolish physical punishment, says The Economist."
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