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Student Participation in Community Service Activity / Acknowledgments



Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Ethel Sanniez and Susan Gilmore of Westat as well as Amanda Miller of the Education Statistics Services Institute for their research assistance. We would also like to thank James Kielsmeier of the National Youth Leadership Council and the University of Minnesota for his invaluable insights on the subject of community service and his careful reading of early drafts of this report.

We are grateful for the encouragement provided by Martin Orland at the to expand upon earlier analysis. Maureen Treacy, also at the Center, and Gerard Devlin and Philip Carr at the Office of Educational Research and Improvement deserve special mention for helping to assure that publication remained on an expedited schedule.

The report was reviewed by the following staff members of the : Marilyn McMillen, Mary Frase, Jeffrey Owings, Steven Kaufmann, Michael Cohen, and Daniel Kasprzyk. The report was also reviewed by Mary Jane Turner of the Close Up Foundation, Lisa Hicks of Jobs for the Future, and Saundra Murray Nettles of the University of Maryland. The authors appreciate the thorough reading and thoughtful suggestions provided by these reviewers. Their input substantially improved the publication. Any remaining errors or problems are the sole responsibility of the authors.



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