"It's like a job. You have goals. You see results" -Yuriy, Experience Corps Member

AmeriCorps Study Shows Experience Corps Makes "Significant Difference" Survey finds that 97 percent of teachers agree or strongly agree that the members improve the learning environment, with three out of four reporting that students made significant academic progress as a result.

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Johns Hopkins University researchers document Experience Corps impact. In schools with Experience Corps, referrals to the principal for classroom misbehavior decreased by half; referrals in the other schools remained about the same.

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Experience Corps in Urban Elementary Schools: A Survey of Principals. Experience Corps boosts student academic achievement, according to an independent survey by Policy Studies Associates, and principals welcome the program into their schools.

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Better Together: Restoring the American Community
Robert Putnam's Better Together: Restoring the American Community devotes a chapter to Experience Corps to illustrate the "extraordinary power and subtlety of social networks to enable people to improve their lives." The Harvard professor cites Experience Corps as a "social-capital success story."

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