Assessing the Effects of Voluntary Youth Service: The Case of Teach for America

by Cynthia Brandt and Doug McAdam

This book uses survey data from all accepted applicants to Teach for America 1993-98 to assess the longer-term effect of youth service on participants' current civic attitudes and behaviors. While TFA "graduates" score higher than the two comparison groups - "dropouts" and "non-matriculants" - on a broad range of attitudinal items measuring civic commitment, these differences appear to be less a byproduct of the TFA experience than a reflection of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807899283
• ISBN13: 9780807899281
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 9.0" x 6.0"