The National Service-Learning Partnership is proud to announce its newest publication,

Information for Action: A Journal for Research
on Service-Learning for Children and Youth - Winter 2008 Issue

The Winter 2008 issue includes the following articles:

• Table of Contents
  

• Introduction
  

• Creating a Generation of Problem-Solvers: A Cognitive Perspective on Service-Learning
  Lisa Bardwell & Stephen Kaplan

• Does Participation in Quality Academic Service-Learning, Signature Service-Learning Positively Impact Students’ State Achievement Test Scores?
  Mary H. McCarthy

• Service-Learning Impacting Citizenship: A “SLIC” Way to Raise the Civic Aptitude and Behavior of High School Students?
  Jeffrey L. Brudney, Ph.D. & Colleen Kassouf Mackey, M.P.A.

• Taking the University to the People: Experiential Education via Oral History
  Kimberly K. Porter
  
  
• Youth Organized for Disaster Action: Why Youth Voice Matters, Kathia Monard-Weissman
  Joan Liptrot & Julia Wagner

• Embracing Our Singapore Community: The Rafflesian Way
  Chew Yoke Tong and Cheryl Yap

• Reinventing Approaches to Reading: The Buddy Reading Programme. A Service-Learning Initiative
  Anish Kumar Hazra, Marvin Loh, Christopher Fang, Zhuang Changzhong & Dai Donglun

• Reaching Out to Extension Scouts
  Ling Chun Ang Norris Neo Yue Zheng, Ng Jun Jie & Udomkichdecha Sarun

• Book Review, A Practical Guide to Service Learning: Strategies for Positive Development in Schools
  review by Robert Shumer