...Stephanie Strom of The New York Times asked “Does service learning really help?” It’s a good question. Ms. Strom, whose beat for theTimes is philanthropy, focused mainly on the question of whether the students engaged in service learning are really benefitting the nonprofit service organizations they are trying to assist. Not surprisingly, some of her respondents who run the nonprofits were not so sure that their student volunteers were worth the effort that necessarily goes into supervising them.
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