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Youth Movement Loses Global Leader
The youth service movement lost a founding leader when Donald Eberly, founder of the nonmilitary service movement and the National Service Secretariat, ended a longstanding battle with illness on Dec. 25, 2011. Eberly was born in Cortland, New York, and educated at MIT and Harvard.
Project Ignition Students Share Youth Perspective in Washington D.C.
On Monday, Jan. 9, 2012, student representatives from 10 Project Ignition National Leader Schools spent the day at the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) in Washington, D.C., to share how they and their classmates are positively impacting teen driver safety in their communities.
Twenty-Five High Schools Receive Project Ignition Grants to Promote Safer, Smarter Driving
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, auto crashes are the number one cause of death for teens in this country. Project Ignition is a youth- and schools-led response that connects academic goals to address the issue of teen driver safety through service-learning. The grants will support student-designed and student-led campaigns aimed at preventing car crashes in their community.
NYLC Research Director Named Vice Chair of International Service-Learning Research Organization
Dr. Susan Root, Research Director at the National Youth Leadership Council, has been named vice chair of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement. This past November, IARSLCE held its 11th annual conference, Research for Impact Scholarship Advancing Social Change, gathering hundreds of researchers focusing on service-learning from K-12 to post-secondary education in Chicago, Ill.
