The School District of Philadelphia has contracted with RFA to conduct an evaluation of its Faith Partnerships program. This study will explore schools’ perspectives on their partnerships with re...

RFA's study on high school choice builds on the Learning from Philadelphia's School Reform study and turns RFA's attention to the improvement of Philadelphia's high schools - a focus that ...

The Philadelphia Education Fund and the School District of Philadelphia are partnering to convene a broad-based planning process to design a five-year blueprint for the redisign of Philadelphia's h...

Southeastern Pennsylvania has been selected as one of four sites for funding from Communities for Public Education Reform (CPER), a national philanthropic collaborative aimed at increasing student ...

RFA is leading Learning from Philadelphia’s School Reform, a comprehensive, multi-year study of Philadelphia’s complex and radical school reform effort. RFA researchers are working wit...

Need in Deed, a Philadelphia-based organization, prepares and supports teachers as they integrate service-learning into their classroom practice. RFA is currently conducting a formative evaluation ...

RFA is examining the planning and early implementation of the School District of Philadelphia’s small schools strategy for high school reform, focusing especially on the significant role of publi...

MetroMath is a partnership among Rutgers, University of Pennsylvania, and City University of New York, funded by the National Science Foundation, with the goal of developing a new generation of lea...

RFA is evaluating a partnership between Rutgers University and surrounding school districts. In this partnership, graduate students in mathematics and science team up with middle school teachers wi...

RFA is conducting a comprehensive, mixed methods evaluation study designed to inform, support, and assess the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative, a partnership of the Pennsylvania Departm...

The Parent Leadership Academy (PLA) is an initiative of the School District and the William Penn Foundation to increase parent involvement and leadership in schools and communities. PLAs are region...

RFA's study on the use of data focuses on low-performing urban elementary and middle schools that are under significant pressure to improve student achievement and to use student data to accomplish...

RFA is analysing the campaigns of two Philadelphia youth organizing groups, the Philadelphia Student Union (PSU) and Youth United for Change (YUC), to transform their neighborhood high schools into...

RFA Annual Reports contain an overview of the past year's research, reports, conference presentations, along with a brief financial summary.

RFA eNews brings you the latest information about RFA including new reports and briefs and announcements of upcoming presentations and events. Published monthly, it provides links to our r...

RFA also provides consultant services primarily to non-profit organizations including the Education Law Center, the Liberty Science Center, Merck, Philadelphia Education Fund, Consortium for Policy...

RFA occasionally publishes work on varied topics of more general interest that defy classification under one project or area of focus. These include those listed below.

RFA is assisting researchers at Johns Hopkins University who are principal investigators in an NSF-funded project to study long term trends in mathematics and science reform in the middle grades in...

RFA worked for 4 years evaluating the Trenton School District's Leadership for Education Achievement (LEAD) initiative. LEAD is a program supported by the DeWitt Wallace Foundation which builds sc...

NSCC is an Americorps National Service Program. Full-time NSCC participants implement academic and other support programs in public schools during the school day; they also carry out after-school a...