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 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...

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...

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 ...