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| Executive Educator | 2 |
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| Natale, Jo Anna | 1 |
| Splitt, David A. | 1 |
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| Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
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Natale, Jo Anna – Executive Educator, 1994
The Alan Shawn Feinstein High School for Public Service in Providence, Rhode Island, has high-minded curricular goals, despite its rough beginnings. Students and staff are excited about Feinstein's communitarian emphasis, extended class periods, small classes, advisory program, and portfolio assessment process. Hopefully, start-up difficulties…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Services, High Schools, Nontraditional Education
Splitt, David A. – Executive Educator, 1996
Service learning is not immune from legal problems. In 1993, the third Circuit Court of Appeals quashed a lawsuit claiming a school's mandatory public-service requirement violated the 1st and 13th amendments. The most recent case was pursued against a New York district whose modest public-service requirement supposedly forced students into…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Graduation Requirements, High Schools, Learning Activities
