Recent Publications by Diane C. Brown
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Making A Difference: Year Two Report of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative – Executive Summary
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 Pennsylvania High School Coaching…
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Promising InRoads: Year One of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative – Executive Summary
Executive summary to the report that examines the implementation of the first year of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative. Funded by the Annenberg Foundation, it is an on-site professional development initiative that employs instructional…
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Girls in the Middle: Working to Succeed in School
Middle schools are in a position to empower girls through educational reforms that directly address issues of gender equity. This study, commissioned by the American Association of University Women Education Foundation, reports on research in…
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A Report to the Alliance Organizing Project on its Work with Parents
This report documents the experience of parents as they form parent leadership teams at their local schools and build relationships with administrators and teachers.
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Up-Close and Personal: An Evaluation of the American Red Cross Partners for Youth Program
This report is an evaluation of the American Red Cross’ Partners for Youth program as implemented in twelve Philadelphia middle schools. This program is based on the principle that service learning can be an empowering…
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Locating Local Education Funds: A Conceptual Framework for Describing LEF’s Contribution to Public Education
This report presents the findings of RFA’s intitial literature review of research and other writings and documentation on local education funds as well as other education reform nonprofits working within communities at the local level.…
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Crafting a Civic Stage for Public Education Reform: Understanding the Work and Accomplishments of Local Education Funds
This report is based on research focusing on understanding and assessing how Local Education Funds (LEFs)carryout their mission and demonstrate success. It offers a conceptual model for understanding the decisions that LEFs make as they…
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‘Placing Everything on the Table’: A View of the White-Williams Scholars’ Peer Academic Development Standardized Curriculum
In this memo we report the findings from an evaluability study of the implementation of the Peer Academic Development (PAD) standardized curriculum.
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Promising InRoads: Year One Report of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative
This report examines the implementation of the first year of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative. Funded by the Annenberg Foundation, it is an on-site professional development initiative that employs instructional coaches using Penn Literacy…
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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 Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative (PAHSCI). Funded by the Annenberg Foundation, this initiative focuses on literacy and math coaches providing support to…
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Links to Learning and Sustainability: Year Three Report of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative
Research for Action’s third and final report completes a three-year evaluation study of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative (PAHSCI). This report presents lessons from the PAHSCI model of school-based instructional coaching and mentoring as…