Book Review of Gettin' My Word Out: Voices of Urban Youth Activists by Leoisa Ardizzone
The publication of Gettin' My Word Out is timely for two reasons. It is apt that the 40th...
The involvement of parents and other caregivers in schools is increasingly viewed as not only a complement to the work of educators, but a as critical and essential support for the academic, psycho...
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This eNews highlights the publication of Evaluating the Performance of Philadelphia Charter Schools, a recent working paper written in collaboration with RAND Corporation and Mathematica P...
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This eNews focuses on the Learning to Learn from Data research project. Also indludes a list of RFA presentations at the 2008 AERA annual meeting.
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Under NCLB, educators are experiencing increased pressure to use student performance data to improve achievement. Despite attention to this data, we know little about how schools actually make mea...
Charter schools, publicly funded schools that operate autonomously outside the direct control of local school districts and generally enroll students through the choices of their parents rather tha...
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This eNews focuses on the portfolio of schools approach to district-wide high school reform.
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In the School District of Philadelphia in 2007-08, almost one third of high school students attend one of the district's 32 small high schools. Of these, 26 have been newly created or significantl...
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SPECIAL EDITION - Commentary 'Guiding Principals to Aid Schools' appears in Philadelphia Inquirer
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This eNews focuses on national small schools research and on 'Going Small', RFA's study of Philadelphia small schools.
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This eNews focuses on the release of A Philadelphia Story: Building Civic Capacity for School Reform in a Privatizing System
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Following the 2001 state takeover of the School District of Philadelphia, a new governance structure was established and an ambitious set of reforms went into effect, generating renewed public conf...
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Following the 2001 state takeover of the School District of Philadelphia, a new governance structure was established and an ambitious set of reforms went into effect, generating renewed public conf...
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The Executive Summary to the Making a Difference: Year Two Report of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative. This report examines the implementation of the second year of three for the P...
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This eNews highlights the year two report of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative.
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This report examines the implementation of the second year of three for the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative (PAHSCI). Funded by the Annenberg Foundation, this initiative focuses on li...
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RFA's October 2007 eNews highlights RFA's evaluation work.
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This eNews highlights the question facing the SRC at the beginning of the school year.
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Research for Action (RFA) conducted an evaluation of Need in Deed (NID)'s work with teachers during the 2006-07 school year. The mixed method evaluation aimed to learn more about the impact of the ...
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