The Kennedy Serve America Act directs the Corporation to contract with an independent entity to conduct a 10-year longitudinal study on the impact of the activities carried out under Learn and Serve America. The study should be designed to consider the impact of service-learning activities carried on by students participating in such activities, including the degree to which the activities:

1. improved student academic achievement;
2. improved student engagement;
3. improved graduation rates; and
4. improved the degree to which the participants in the activities engaged in subsequent national service, volunteering, or other service activities, or pursued careers in public service, in the nonprofit sector or government.

In carrying out the study, the entity shall examine the impact of the service-learning activities on the 4 factors described above, analyzed in terms of how much time participants were engaged in service-learning activities. In addition, they shall collect information on best practices concerning using service-learning activities to improve the 4 factors described above.