What percentage of school-age students engage in service-learning?
Today, schools in all 50 states have service-learning programs. A 1999 survey released by the National Center for Education Statistics found the 32% of all public schools organize service-learning as part of their curriculum, including nearly half of all high schools. A recent report from the University of Minnesota examined the progress of service-learning from 1984-1997. The report documents the dramatic increase in the number of students involved in service programs 900,000 in 1984 to 12,605,740 in 1997. The percentage of all high school students involved in service-learning activities rose from a mere two percent in 1984 to nearly 25 percent in 1997.
