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This is the executive summary of RFA's report, Making the Most of Interim Assessment Data: Lessons from Philadelphia. Under No Child Left Behind, urban school districts have increasingly turned to...

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Under No Child Left Behind, urban school districts have increasingly turned to interim assessments, administered at regular intervals, to help gauge student progress in advance of annual state exam...

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At the request of the Accountability Review Council, Research for Action identified effective organizational practices used by better performing schools serving substantial numbers of low income mi...

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Research for Action's third and final report completes a three-year evaluation study of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative (PAHSCI). This report presents lessons from the PAHSCI model...

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The Executive Summary to Research for Action's third and final report, completing a three-year evaluation study of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative (PAHSCI). This report presents le...

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This paper draws on district interviews and meeting observations to understand (1) the accountability, organizational, and instructional context for benchmark assessments in Philadelphia and how th...

Charter schools, publicly funded schools that operate autonomously outside the direct control of local school districts and generally enroll students through the choices of their parents rather tha...

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This book chapter focuses on the role of political leadership and entrepreneurship in establishing early legitimacy for and confidence in a reform agenda in Philadelphia's public school system betw...

This report examines the implementation of the second year of three for the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative (PAHSCI). Funded by the Annenberg Foundation, this initiative focuses on li...

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The Executive Summary to the Making a Difference: Year Two Report of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative. This report examines the implementation of the second year of three for the P...

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This letter to the editor responds to a June 25 editorial about the RAND/Research for Action report on student outcomes in Philadelphia's privately managed schools.

This paper was presented at the American Education Research Association's 2007 annual conference. While there is a great deal of enthusiasm for collection and use of student data by educators, litt...

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This letter to the editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer responds to a February 23 commentary by Charles Zogby.

This article responds to a February 23 editorial about the RAND/Research for Action report on student outcomes in Philadelphia's privately managed schools.

This commentary sets the record straight following extensive media coverage of the release of RAND and RFA's report, 'State Takeover, School Restructuring, Private Management, and Student Achieveme...

This article describes the private sector involvement in Philadelphia public schools under the state takeover. This is a case study that focuses on the political and institutional context in which ...

Following a state takeover of the Philadelphia public schools in 2002, 45 schools were turned over to private managers, making Philadelphia the site of the nation's largest experiment in the privat...

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Following a state takeover of the Philadelphia public schools in 2002, 45 schools were turned over to private managers, making Philadelphia the site of the nation's largest experiment in the privat...

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This report examines the implementation of the first year of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative. Funded by the Annenberg Foundation, it is an on-site professional development initiat...

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