Youth Service-Learning and Community Service Among 6th-through 12th-Grade Students in the United States: 1996 and 1999 (Statistics in Brief)

摘要

Involving America's students in community service activities is one of the objectives established under the third National Education Goal for the year 2000, which seeks to prepare students for responsible citizenship. Over the past 10 years, legislative initiatives have responded to and galvanized a growing national emphasis on increasing students' involvement with their local communities and linking this service to academic study through service-learning. Although definitions of sevice-learning vary, for the purposes of this Brief, it is defined as 'an educational activity, program, or curriculum that seeks to promote students' learning through experiences associated with volunteerism or community service'.