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Total number of Library Resources: 241
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This book has three major goals: 1. to introduce readers to the concept of resilience 2. to enable readers to understand how resilience can be both enhanced and acquired through the development of protective factors through service-learning 3. to demonstrate how service-learning can be implemented to purposefully strengthen resilience in youth (author)
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The Education Commission of the States recently updated a 50-state review of state policies that encourage student involvement in decision-making and policymaking. While many institutions of higher education, districts and schools have similar policies, this review was limited to identifying those opportunities codified at the state level in state statute and administrative code. This paper explores and discusses student participation in local...
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The National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) is the nation's leading advocate for civic participation and the only organization chartered by Congress to play that role. The NCoC created America's Civic Health Index to assess how the American people were performing on a wide array of indicators of civic health. Since America's Civic Health Index was first published in 2006, and featured in TIME Magazine, the NCoC has published annual reports to...
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This eighth volume in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series includes eight essays selected from manuscripts submitted by participants in the seventh annual conference of the International Association of Research in Service-Learning and Community Engagement, held in Tampa, Florida, in October, 2007. The volume builds upon the theme of that conference: "Sustainability and Scholarship: Research and the K-20 Continuum," bringing...
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The Corporation recognizes that racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, low-income youth, non-college educated individuals and the disabled may be underrepresented in service and volunteering programs as well as in other civic engagement activities. In response, the Corporation has decided to make increasing access to service and volunteering for individuals from disadvantaged circumstances one of its strategic focus areas. In order to pursue...
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Well-designed volunteer and service opportunities, such as those that the Corporation for National and Community Service supports, offer at least two sets of benefits. One set accrues to the individuals and communities served by these programs through the provision of valued and needed services and supports at no- or reduced- cost. The second set accrues to the individuals who volunteer and provide the service. That experience can play an...
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The Corporation for National and Community Service recognizes that racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, low-income youth, non-college educated individuals and the disabled may be underrepresented in service and volunteering programs as well as in other civic engagement activities. In response, the Corporation has decided to make increasing access to service and volunteering for individuals from disadvantaged circumstances one of its...
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The purpose of this project was to gain a better understanding of dimensions of trust and their inter-relationships during the adolescent years. Drawing from survey data collected at the beginning and end of a semester in eighty middle- and high-school social studies classes, the authors assessed the relationships between the following dimensions of trust: social trust, trust in elected officials, trust in the responsiveness of government to...
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In our study of high school civic opportunities, the authors found that a student's race and academic track, and a school's average socioeconomic status (SES) determines the availability of the school-based civic learning opportunities that promote voting and broader forms of civic engagement. High school students attending higher SES schools, those who are college-bound, and white students get more of these opportunities than low-income...
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Today in America, there are approximately 25 million parents who have children in American high schools. Their role in the educational achievement of their children is profound. Students with involved parents, regardless of their family income or background, are more likely to earn higher grades and test scores, enroll in higher level classes, attend school and pass their classes, develop better social skills, graduate from high school, attend...
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The aim of this report is to explore the attitudes and behaviors of youth from disadvantaged circumstances, particularly around their engagement in volunteering, to inform efforts around enhancing opportunities for these youth people to enter into the cycle of civic participation. The study found that youth from disadvantaged circumstances are less likely to have entered the cycle of civic participation, leading to lower rates of volunteering...
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This working paper is the result of a project whose goal was to produce a set of civic measures with good psychometric properties that are appropriate for use with young people ages 12-18. These measures tap aspects of adolescents civic behaviors, opinions, knowledge, and dispositions. These measures are easy to administer and can be used by educators, staff of community-based organizations, program evaluators, and scholars. The data used to...
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Growing to Greatness (G2G) is the first comprehensive national study of the state of service-learning in kindergarten through 12th grade. It documents the unfolding story of service-learning, providing information to improve implementation, inform public policy, and give a clear picture of the many ways young people contribute to society. This fourth year report follows the 2004 report (focus on impact on schools), the 2005 report (focus on...
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This is the fourth volume of Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearinghouse's collection of recent service-learning thesis and dissertation abstracts. This document includes citation information of 144 dissertations and theses from the years 2004-2006. This volume also provides a brief analysis of the collection of dissertations in order to provide a richer picture of the current state of service-learning research. The...
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This volume is the seventh in the Advances in Service-learning Research series, and presents a collection of papers selected from those presented at the Sixth International Service-Learning Research Conference, hosted by Portland State University in October 2006.
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This guidebook is designed to serve as an introduction for young people to the evaluation process. It is based on the principles of sound evaluation and explained in a way that should appeal to youth. It covers some of the basic processes, from formulating questions and a focus for study, to actually practicing some introductory skills in observing, interviewing, developing surveys, and conducting focus groups.
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Most of the limited research on service learning's ties to civic engagement has been done in primary and secondary school settings. It has been unclear whether there is a connection to civic engagement at the community college level. Discovering such a connection may allow service learning coordinators and faculty to foster greater awareness of how students, learning the curriculum through local service learning placements, can also become...
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Using panel data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS), this study empirically analyzes the relationship between two forms of civic engagement--student government and community service--and educational progress made after the eighth grade by addressing the following questions. Does civic engagement affect academic progress in mathematics, reading, history, and science? Does voluntary community service differently...
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The National Conference on Citizenship's 2007 Annual Conference on October 4, 2007 released the nation's second Civic Health Index. The principal findings are based on a comprehensive national survey conducted by Harris Interactive and various government data sources. The survey and data collected by the government suggest that there has been no recovery in 2007. In fact, there is evidence of further decline in some indicators, such as trust in...
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This eight-page brief introduces AACC's fifth national Learn and Serve America grant project and describes its grantee college programs. The goals of Community Colleges Broadening Horizons through Service Learning, supported by Learn and Serve America and administered by the American Association of Community Colleges, are to build on established foundations to integrate service learning into the institutional climate of community colleges and to...
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Growing to Greatness (G2G) is the first comprehensive national study of the state of service-learning in kindergarten through 12th grade. It documents the unfolding story of service-learning, providing information to improve implementation, inform public policy, and give a clear picture of the many ways young people contribute to society. This third year report follows the 2004 report (focus on impact on schools) and the 2005 report (focus on...
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This paper presents the School Citizenship Education Climate Assessment and examines its implications for the social studies. The assessment tool was developed from a variety of research fields and disciplines related to school and classroom climate and educational practices including civic education, educational psychology and service-learning. We begin with a brief examination of several key concepts underlying our assessment including school...
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Over the past decade, public attention on the importance of the civic development and education of youth has grown. To address these concerns, the East Bay Conservation Corps (EBCC) Charter School opened in 1996 with the explicit mission to prepare and engage students grades K through 12 as caring citizens who are capable and motivated to fully participate in our democracy. While content standards and assessments readily exist to articulate the...
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The purpose of this series of books is to advance the knowledge in the service-learning research field. More importantly, this research is to be used to transform the field. This transformation will come from realizing both the history of service-learning and trying to imagine what the future may look like. The chapters in this book all demonstrate just how far service-learning research has come. Researchers, practitioners, and students alike...
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The central message of this report is that while some students drop out because of significant academic challenges, most dropouts are students who could have, and believe they could have, succeeded in school. This survey of young people who left high school without graduating suggests that, despite career aspirations that require education beyond high school and a majority having grades of a C or better, circumstances in students' lives and an...
