Volunteers in Public Schools (1990) / Chapter Skim
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Despite increasing interest in using volunteers to enhance the education of American youths, attempts to study their contributions to pupils and teachers, to the schools, and to the community have been largely local studies focusing on specific projects. These data from local school districts and anecdotal information gathered by the committee suggested considerable growth in the numbers of volunteers over the past several decades.
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The committee found a great variety of services provided by volunteers, including: tutoring students in need of special help with such skills as reading, writing, and mathematics; listening attentively to children who "need a special friend"; working to develop English-language skills in children who are immigrants to the United States; acting as mentors and role models, and providing career guidance for disadvantaged youths; enhancing students' appreciation of arts and literature through lectures and demonstrations and helping in hands-on application of arts and crafts; organizing and operating computer labs; accompanying choral and other musical events; helping students organize science fairs, school newspapers, and dramatic events; and serving as guest lecturers on topics in which volunteers have experience and expertise. The committee also observed programs in which volunteers serve as surrogate grandparents in intergenerational programs that try to overcome stereotypical separations between young and old.
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It includes people who participate in some aspect of instruction as well as those who help with clerical or other support activities. This definition with minor modifications in wording is used by the National Association of Partners in Education, the major professional organization with which directors of school volunteer services, volunteer coordinators, and volunteers are affiliated.
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Although such legislation, if enacted, could make a big difference in the numbers and types of volunteers available to the schools, it would not affect our definition. Such volunteers would still provide unpaid services to schools, even though they would receive stipends from federal, state, or local gov ernments.
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In Chapter 5, we analyze the committee's 13 site visits to exemplary volunteer programs, including a description of the criteria by which the sites were chosen, the protocols followed, a discussion of each of the programs observed, and a summary of findings. The factors that the committee believes foster or inhibit successful programs are reviewed in Chapter 6, including a brief discussion of the findings from this study that might be helpful to the Congress as it considers possible legislation with respect to a national voluntary youth service program.
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