ABSTRACT
The principal then described their solution to the cheating. They decided to commit to mastering and implementing service learning and to do so in a comprehensive and thoughtful way. They investigated it, identified resources, and invested heavily in high-quality professional development for their staff. They designed a comprehensive school-wide adoption and integration of service learning. There is plenty of lamentation about the lack of transfer of scientific knowledge in education in general. This means that valuable theory and research about education does not adequately drive practice. Educators either do not know the theory or research or simply do not put it into practice. Values clarification was a wildly popular approach to exploring values in schools in the 1960s. It was a good example of the bandwagon effect in education, where educators gravitate enthusiastically to an untested approach. Values clarification was quickly criticized for its philosophy of ethical relativism, its developmentally inappropriate lessons, and finally its lack of evidence of effectiveness.
