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FEATURED: Schoolwide Civic Intervention May Help to Increase Community Service Participation Among Students of All Backgrounds
By Hugh McIntosh, Sheldon Berman, and James Youniss March 2010 “CIRCLE Working Paper #70” describes a five-year evaluation of a high school program designed to encourage schoolwide democratic deliberation. The intervention involved, in part, organizing the school into clusters of 100 to 150 students that met for one hour each week to discuss governance and Read More >
Immigrant Youth Less Likely to Volunteer
September 2009 Young people who have immigrated to the United States or whose parents were born outside the U.S. are far less likely to volunteer than youth of U.S.-born parents, according to a new CIRCLE Fact Sheet. This cohort represents the fastest growing portion of the youth population. 22 percent of youth with U.S.-born parents Read More >
Youth without college education are less likely to volunteer: New CIRCLE report examines the correlation between college experience & volunteering
Tisch College, Tufts University —Despite the upward trend in youth volunteering, young adults with no college experience are half as likely to volunteer as their collegiate counterparts, according to a new report examining the relationship between youth volunteering and college experience. Roughly 43 percent of the 20-to-29-year-old population has not attended college. Download the fact Read More >
CIRCLE at National Conference on Volunteering and Service, San Francisco
CIRCLE will be represented at these two sessions Everybody Can Serve: Widening the Door to Volunteering Tuesday, June 23, 2009 from 3:30-6 PM Moscone West – Room 3001 CIRCLE speaker: Peter Levine Using social media to increase service-learning quality and reach (1158) Date and Time: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CIRCLE Read More >
Peter Levine at AERA
CIRCLE director Peter Levine will speak on a presidential panel at the American Education Research Association in San Diego. The panel title is “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Democratic Citizenship, Civic Learning, and Youth Political Participation.”
