Document Type
Report
Publication Date
3-2006
Abstract
This brief is the second in the Youth Helping America Series, a series of reports based on data from the Youth Volunteering and Civic Engagement Survey, a national survey of 3,178 American youth between the ages of 12 and 18 that was conducted by the Corporation for National and Community Service in 2005 in collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau and the nonprofit coalition Independent Sector.
The survey collected information on teen volunteering habits, experiences with school-based service-learning, and other forms of civic engagement. While the first brief in the Youth Helping America Series focused on youth volunteering and social institutions, this brief focuses on participation in school-based service — service opportunities made available or required by schools — among middle school and high school aged youth. We pay particular attention to the extent to which youth participate in service-learning courses, which integrate school-based service opportunities into the academic curriculum such as those programs supported by Learn and Serve America.
Recommended Citation
Spring, Kimberly; Dietz, Nathan; and Grimm, Robert Jr., "Youth Helping America - Educating for Active Citizenship: Service-Learning, School-Based Service and Youth Civic Engagement" (2006). Civic Engagement. 42.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/slceciviceng/42