This model is an attempt to integrate a number of developments into a new form of secondary education with a distinctive purpose, process, and context that will have a powerful and beneficial influence on the maturation of adolescents and their transition to adulthood. (Author)

Describes the Community Service Internship program at East Lyme (Connecticut) High School. The program is designed to help students understand the needs of various segments of the local population while allowing them to engage in community service for a substantial period. (IW)

Outlines steps that must be taken for a school to implement a Walkabout experiential learning program in a community. (IRT)

A "Walkabout" program for second-semester seniors at a public alternative school is described. Cited as keys to the program's effectiveness are staff commitment of one-half their workload and intensive and clearly defined student preparation. Students not participating engage in a similar but briefer independent learning project in the…

Suggests that European apprenticeship programs are successful in preventing juvenile delinquency and promoting effective vocational education. (DW)

Depicts adolescents' lively, voluntary involvement in constructive alternatives to the counterproductive teenage ventures filling the morning's newspapers. Successful youth organizations adopt a firm and flexible approach, empower rather than infantilize youths, and have clear goals and membership rules. Many out-of-school settings share features…

Chicago's Metro High curriculum is the city; its learning laboratory is the community; and its lesson is freedom, choice, and responsibility. (Author)

A review of the Department of Education's Secondary Schools Recognition Program shows that exemplary secondary schools often have formed collaborative links with their communities. The five ways schools do this are: recruiting volunteers, aggressive public relations, attracting financial resources, school members volunteering in the community, and…

Proposes that state legislatures require all high school students to earn academic credit through unpaid community service to gain an instinct for public service. Considers the impact of such a program on student attitudes, anticipates possible objections, and makes recommendations for implementation. (Author/WD)

Although adolescents face many potentially life-threatening choices, schools are ill equipped to offer comprehensive guidance for developing personal survival skills. This article outlines four conditions militating against schools' acceptance of this role, advocates collaboration between schools and community-based youth organizations, and…

Briscoe's article explains how PennServe, Pennsylvania's youth service program, converts young people from a problem to a community resource of which to be proud. Silcox explains various facets of a Philadelphia high school's PennServe program and shows how school-based service has changed attitudes, values, and relationships and enlivened…

Discusses the proposals of some American educational authorities who favor smaller, more diverse high schools with greater emphasis on action learning, career education, and alternative educational programs. (JG)

Young adults without a college education and their families are suffering declining economic status and diminished opportunities. Real incomes of males aged 20-24 years fell 25 percent between 1973 and 1986. Inspired by time-tested alternative paths to work and learning recommended by Howard Gardner, the Grant Commission on Work, Family, and…

In June 1992, 26 high school students and environmentalists left United States to participate in community service/experimental learning environmental project in Russia. Focus was environmental monitoring of Novgorod, Russia. Both U.S. and Russian students gained in scientific knowledge; Russian teens felt more empowered about community service.…

Discusses ten principles, evolving from the authors' experiences at South Boston High School, that form the core of a new view of schooling and its relation to the society it serves. (Author/WD)