Uneven Playing Field: Demographic Differences and High School 'Choice' in Philadelphia Mar 2010 Deborah Good, Eva Gold, Shani Adia Evans, Clarisse Haxton, Holly Plastaras Maluk, Cecily A. Mitchell, Elaine Simon

Every fall, eighth graders participate in the School District of Philadelphia's high school application and admissions process, vying for spots in a tiered system of public high schools across the ...

Transition to High School: School 'Choice' and Freshman Year in Philadelphia Feb 2010 Eva Gold, Shani Adia Evans, Clarisse Haxton, Holly Plastaras Maluk, Cecily A. Mitchell, Elaine Simon, Deborah Good

The School District of Philadelphia's tiered system of selective, nonselective, and charter high schools, and the process for high school choice, has created real variation in the degree to which h...

Challenges to Freshman Year Interventions in Philadelphia Feb 2010 Eva Gold, Shani Adia Evans, Clarisse Haxton, Holly Plastaras Maluk, Cecily A. Mitchell, Elaine Simon, Deborah Good

Philadelphia made early investments in reforms designed to address the challenges of large neighborhood high schools, including supports for the critical ninth grade transition year. Well over a d...

Context, Conditions, and Consequences: Freshman Year Transition in Philadelphia Jan 2010 Eva Gold, Shani Adia Evans, Clarisse Haxton, Holly Plastaras Maluk, Cecily A. Mitchell, Elaine Simon, Deborah Good

This policy brief focuses on the School District of Philadelphia's high school selection process and the ways in which it reinforces and compounds inequities that already exist among the District's...

Blueprint for Secondary Education in Philadelphia: The Planning Process, 2006-2008 - 2 page summary Sep 2009 Eva Gold, Shani Adia Evans

Between fall 2006 and spring 2008, the Philadelphia Education Fund (the Ed Fund) and the School District of Philadelphia (the District) co-convened a planning process for secondary education reform...

Blueprint for Secondary Education in Philadelphia: The Planning Process, 2006-2008 - Executive Summary Sep 2008 Eva Gold, Shani Adia Evans

Between fall 2006 and spring 2008, the Philadelphia Education Fund (the Ed Fund) and the School District of Philadelphia (the District) co-convened a planning process for secondary education reform...

Blueprint for Secondary Education in Philadelphia: The Planning Process, 2006-2008 Sep 2008 Eva Gold, Shani Adia Evans

Between fall 2006 and spring 2008, the Philadelphia Education Fund (the Ed Fund) and the School District of Philadelphia (the District) co-convened a planning process for secondary education reform...

Gettin' My Word Out: Voices of Urban Youth Activists May 2008 Eva Gold

Book Review of Gettin' My Word Out: Voices of Urban Youth Activists by Leoisa Ardizzone

The publication of Gettin' My Word Out is timely for two reasons. It is apt that the 40th...

Philadelphia Story: Building Civic Capacity for School Reform in a Privatizing System Dec 2007 Eva Gold, Elaine Simon, Maia Cucchiara, Cecily A. Mitchell, Morgan Riffer

Following the 2001 state takeover of the School District of Philadelphia, a new governance structure was established and an ambitious set of reforms went into effect, generating renewed public conf...

Philadelphia Story: Building Civic Capacity for School Reform in a Privatizing System - Executive Summary Dec 2007 Eva Gold, Elaine Simon, Maia Cucchiara, Cecily A. Mitchell, Morgan Riffer

Following the 2001 state takeover of the School District of Philadelphia, a new governance structure was established and an ambitious set of reforms went into effect, generating renewed public conf...

Making Progress: Longitudinal Outcomes Evaluation of the Say Yes to Education Program Kindergarten - 5th Grade May 2007 Herbert M. Turner, Jason Schoeneberger, Tracey A. Hartmann, Eva Gold, Herbert M. Turner III

Say Yes to Education (SYTE) is a scholarship guarantee program that pledges to young children from disadvantaged backgrounds a fully paid, post-secondary education along with academic and social su...

Blurring the Boundaries: A Case Study of Private Sector Involvement in Philadelphia Public Schools Feb 2007 Eva Gold, Jolley Bruce Christman, Benjamin B. Herold

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 ...

What's the 'Diverse Provider Model?' How Did We Get It? Is It Here for Good? Sep 2006 Eva Gold

This article provides a brief history and description of the School District of Philadelphia's 'diverse provider model.' It touches on the emergence of the model in which private outside providers...

Privatization 'Philly Style': What Can Be Learned from Philadelphia's Diverse Provider Model of School Management (Updated edition with important new information and findings) Jun 2006 Jolley Bruce Christman, Eva Gold, Benjamin B. Herold

This edition of Privatization 'Philly Style' updates the 2005 publication of the same name, providing important new information and findings. Philadelphia's diverse provider model is an interventio...

Home to School: Numeracy Practices and Mathematical Identities 2006 Diane Downer Anderson, Eva Gold

Drawing on a perspective of mathematics as situated social practice, we focus on 4 children in an urban preschool classroom and follow those children between home and school sites to shed light on ...

Children and Families First: An Evaluation of the Philadelphia Say Yes to Education Program - Executive Summary Nov 2005 Eva Gold, Tracey A. Hartmann, Kristine S. Lewis

This is an executive summary of the evaluation report Children and families first: An evaluation of the Say Yes to Education program. This evaluation is an evaluation of the Say Yes to Education pr...

Children and Families First: An Evaluation of the Philadelphia Say Yes to Education Program Nov 2005 Eva Gold, Tracey A. Hartmann, Kristine S. Lewis

This report is an evaluation of the Say Yes to Education program cohort of students in Philadelphia beginning in the fall of 2002. This cohort started kindergarten as Say Yes students. All but a fe...

Time to Engage? Civic Participation in Philadelphia's School Reform Sep 2005 Eva Gold, Maia Cucchiara, Elaine Simon, Morgan Riffer

Philadelphia is at the forefront of a national trend towards privatization in education, making school reform in Philadelphia a topic of national and local consequence. The Philadelphia school dist...