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...

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 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...

SYTE is a tuition guarantee program that provides students and families from low-income neighborhoods with college or other post-secondary training. RFA collaborated with the SYTE staff to evaluate...

The Philadelphia Cultural Participation Benchmark Project, funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, was a collaboration of the University of Pennsylvania’s Social Impact of the Arts ...

The Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform and RFA have completed the development of the Indicators Framework, which is being used to document the impact of community organizing for school ref...

Philadelphia’s Please Touch Museum developed and distributed science kits – prepackaged materials and activities – for pre-schoolers and provided professional development for preschool teache...

From 1997-2000, RFA conducted an evaluation of two projects sponsored by PNC Bank to create educational partnerships between four elementary schools in Philadelphia's Norris Square neighborhood and...

BLRTN, funded by the DeWitt-Wallace Reader's Digest Fund, provides professional development to rural middle and high school English teachers. BLRTN emphasizes the use of telecomputing as a catalyst...

AOP was a Philadelphia-based group working to organize parents for new roles in their local schools for the purpose of supporting and sustaining school reform. RFA worked with AOP to assess how par...

Maryland Cares is a project of the National Council of Jewish Women and the Maryland State Department of Education. Maryland Cares works with two school communities to develop parent, community and...

RFA examined the establishment of five new Urban League Parent Councils across the country.

The Learning Communities program at Temple University aimed to improve the first semester experience and the retention of Temple freshmen. RFA investigated Learning Communities in three different s...

An evaluation of a school based program that encouraged young mothers to persist to graduation by providing a supportive environment and extra academic support.

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...

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...

RFA carried out an eighteen-month formative evaluation of two family centers, the West Philadelphia Family Center (located at the Barry School) and the McKinley Family Center for Child Development ...