References

¹ Janet Eyler, Dwight E. Giles, and John Braxton, “Report of a National Study Comparing the Impacts of Service-Learning Program Characteristics on Post Secondary Students” (paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, 1997).

² Mary Prentice, “Service-Learning’s Impact on Developmental Reading/Writing and Student Life Skills Courses,” Community College Journal of Research and Practice 33 (2002): 270–282.

³ National Commission on Mathematics and Science, “Before it’s too late. A Report to the Nation from the National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century,” http://www.csl.usf.edu/Before%20too%20late.pdf

⁴ Ibid.,18

⁵ Business Higher Education Forum, “The American Competitiveness Initiative: Addressing the STEM Teacher Shortage and Improving Academic Readiness,” http://www.bhef.com/publications/documents/brief3_s06.pdf