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...

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...

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 evaluating a partnership between Rutgers University and surrounding school districts. In this partnership, graduate students in mathematics and science team up with middle school teachers wi...

RFA is assisting researchers at Johns Hopkins University who are principal investigators in an NSF-funded project to study long term trends in mathematics and science reform in the middle grades in...

RFA participated in a study of the impact of a mathematics curriculum reform in 10 districts in the Philadelphia area.

Supported by the National Science Foundation, USP was a systemic change initiative charged by the School District of Philadelphia to reform math, science and technology instruction and produce high...

LSNA in Chicago is guided by its Holistic Plan which includes improving local public schools, developing youth leadership, enhancing neighborhood safety, maintaining affordable housing and revitali...

RFA conducted a five year evaluation of USI. Supported by the National Science Foundation, USI is a systemic change initiative charged by the School District of Philadelphia to reform math, science...

The American Red Cross’s Partners for Youth program matches a major service organization with Philadelphia middle schools to provide an opportunity for young adolescents to explore goals, values,...

The SLN was a telecomputing project of The Franklin Institute in collaboration with Unisys Corporation and five other urban science museums and their partner schools. Funded by the National Science...

AAUW commissioned RFA to investigate how girls from a variety of racial and ethnic groups negotiate their school lives. RFA conducted qualitative research at six school sites across the country aut...

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 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...