Connecting Students to Communities.

The article presents various papers about service learning projects, social studies projects, research and collaborative efforts of teachers and universities to enrich the education of adolescents, and other ideas that can be adapted to the middle school environment in the U.S. One of the papers reports that the Division of Continuing Education of Bank Street College of Education, New York City, is working to change the lives of inner city children, their families, and communities by emphasizing collaboration.