Southeastern Pennsylvania has been selected as one of four sites for funding from Communities for Public Education Reform (CPER), a national philanthropic collaborative aimed at increasing student ...

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 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...

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...

NSCC is an Americorps National Service Program. Full-time NSCC participants implement academic and other support programs in public schools during the school day; they also carry out after-school a...

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 evaluated the RCS/EBL initiative designed and implemented by a partnership of PEF and the School District of Philadelphia. Full-time Literacy Intern Teachers in the early grades work alongside ...

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...

Educating Children for Parenting, a Philadelphia-based group, developed curricula that teach children about the responsibilities of parenting, young children's growth and development, and the impor...

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...