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 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 one-year outcomes eva...

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...

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 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...

CONGRESO is a non-profit social service organization in Philadelphia that has a long history working with children and youth in the Philadelphia School System as well as the Juvenile Justice system...

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

GEAR UP is a national five-year initiative whose major goal is to increase significantly the proportion of low-income students successfully continuing their education at institutions of higher educ...

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...