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 ...

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...

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 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...

RFA has been contracted by City Year Miami and the Knight Foundation to conduct a two-year mixed-method evaluation study of City Year's Whole School Whole Child (WSWC) model. The program components...

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...

RFA worked with PEN to continue their research on the role of Local Education Funds (LEFs) in shifting the education landscape in their communities. It provided public education stakeholders with a...

RFA conducted a three-year evaluation of MicroSociety and examined the impact of the project as a comprehensive school reform model. MicroSociety is a whole school reform model in which teachers, s...

RFA conducted a three-year evaluation of the KSN, a project of The Franklin Institute of Philadelphia. KSN’s goal is to create a professional learning community in eastern Pennsylvania, which pro...

The Talent Development High School is a national high school comprehensive reform model developed at Johns Hopkins University's Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk (CRES...

NAEC, funded by the Getty Foundation and the Annenberg Foundation, seeks to catalyze and support whole school reform through an integrated approach to arts education. Each of NAEC’s six regional ...

Taking Stock/Making Change was a collaboration between RFA and the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Urban Ethnography which supported study teams in five Philadelphia elementary and middle s...

RFA worked with Concerned Black Parents in Lower Merion to conduct qualitative research into the educational experiences of African-American students at Harriton High School and Lower Merion High S...

The Gratz Connection, a Pennsylvania Department of Education demonstration site for dropout prevention, requested a process evaluation of its program. RFA designed a collaborative action research p...

The Five School Study: Restructuring Philadelphia Comprehensive High Schools assessed the long-term, district-wide effort to restructure Philadelphia’s comprehensive high schools. It examined two...

The New York City Mathematics Project requested an evaluation of the impact of the implementation of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards on urban schools and students. RFA des...

Partners in Change/Crossing the Boundaries were two middle school renewal projects sponsored by PATHS/PRISM as part of its work with the School District of Philadelphia and funded by The Pew Charit...

Science Resource Leaders (SRL) was a project of the School District of Philadelphia and PATHS/PRISM funded by the National Science Foundation. Its goal was to provide professional development for m...

An evaluation of a school based program that used the Parents as Teachers curriculum to support youg mothers' knowledge about and ability to nurture their baby's social, emotional, and cognitive de...