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Service Learning
This series of research products addresses how service-learning opportunities in schools can foster engagement among youth.
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When Civic Skill Development Translates to Broader Youth Development: A Program Profile
As part of CIRCLE’s focus on closing civic learning and opportunity gaps among youth, we form partnerships with youth-serving and youth-led groups to help build knowledge and increase our impact. The following post explains one such partnership. It focuses on skill development for college, career, and civic life, and involves sustained programming, respect, and youth Read More >
#YouthTruth: Civic Skills Crucial at Election Time – But Are these Skills Taught to Youth?
An effective actor needs civic skills. That is evident every election season, when citizens must navigate state voting laws, assess various policies and positions, and make important choices about whom and what to support. And it’s at this time of the year that the conversation about candidates, policies and issues reaches its height . Citizens Read More >
CIRCLE Helps Plot New Youth Mapping Software
From November through January 2008, CIRCLE piloted new software for community-based research and service-learning in a Baltimore city public high school. The development of this software, called YouthMap, is funded by a Small Business Innovation Research contract with the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education through a grant to Community Knowledgebase, Read More >
Live Streaming Audio: Peter Levine Panelist at Public Forum on Service-Learning Research and Implications for Public Policy
SERVICE-LEARNING RESEARCH AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC POLICY: A PUBLIC FORUM FOR RESEARCHERS AND PRACTITIONERS INTERESTED IN SERVICE-LEARNING, CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT The 2008 Service-Learning Works-in-Progress Seminar is presenting this public forum, which will feature a panel of nationally recognized youth, civic engagement and, service-learning researchers reflecting on the lessons they believe policy makers Read More >
Federal Policies for Civic Education and Service
by Emily Hoban Kirby, Peter Levine, and Brent Elrod June 2006 Describes current federal laws and appropriations. Download “Federal Policies for Civic Education and Service.”