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...

RFA worked for 4 years evaluating the Trenton School District's Leadership for Education Achievement (LEAD) initiative. LEAD is a program supported by the DeWitt Wallace Foundation which builds sc...

RFA's 2005 Action Research Summer Camp, under the direction of Diane Brown, was supported by a grant from the Goldsmith Greenfield Foundation. The five-day camp was for high-school-aged students in...

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...

STAR, RFA’s first foray into girls programming, was an after-school literacy and leadership development program for low-income early adolescent and teenage girls (ages 9-18) in North Philadelphia...

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 ...

RFA conducted exploratory research of the early implementation of the White Williams Scholars’ Peer Academic Development (PAD) standardized curriculum. Later, during the 04-05 school year, RFA co...

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,...

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...

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...