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Dote, Lillian; Cramer, Kevin; Dietz, Nathan; Grimm, Robert, Jr. – Corporation for National and Community Service, 2006
To identify key trends in college student volunteering and to understand their implications for growing volunteering among college students, the Corporation has produced a new report, titled "College Students Helping America," the most comprehensive national report ever conducted on college student volunteering in the United States. The…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Volunteers, Part Time Employment, Student Employment
Lopez, Mark Hugo – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, 2004
Volunteering rates among young people are generally higher than they are among adults 26 and older. However, measuring volunteer rates among all adults is a difficult task. In recent years, efforts at measuring volunteering have produced widely different estimates, largely because of the methods employed to measure volunteering. For example, the…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Student Volunteers, Secondary School Students, College Students
Nolin, Mary Jo; And Others – 1997
A study used data from the 1996 National Household Education Survey, Youth Civic Involvement component, to determine how students in grades 6-12 were involved in community service activities and how schools might encourage community service participation and integrate it with classroom learning. Some of the results are as follows: (1) about half…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, School Community Programs
Melchior, Alan; Jastrzab, JoAnn; Bailis, Larry; Frees, Joseph W. – 1994
This report examines the first round of programs funded under the National and Community Service Act of 1990. It is based on aggregate data provided by commission grantees and their subgrantees at the end of the first year of operation and covers commission-funded programs operating between July 1, 1992 and June 30, 1993. Data were available for…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Community Services, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Brown, Kevin; Lipsig-Mumme, Carla; Zajdow, Grazyna – 2003
Volunteering is often seen as an essential element in active citizenship and community participation, and existing literature suggests that those who volunteer young are more likely to volunteer through later stages of life. Analysis of Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY), which identified factors that contribute to volunteering for…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship Responsibility, Community Involvement, Females
Canny, Priscilla F.; Cooke, Michelle Beaulieu – 2003
This report presents an overview of the most current data on the overall well-being of Connecticut's youth, offered to promote a shared sense of accountability in the state, to guide current funding and programmatic decisions, and to set a baseline against which to measure the impact of those decisions. This statistical portrait is based on widely…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accidents, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents