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...

A 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...

A 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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Reframing Accountability for Urban Schools: Efforts from the Ground Up to Improve Public Education Apr 2005 Elaine Simon, Eva Gold

This paper, presented at the 2005 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) discusses the contributions of community organizing to current conceptions of accountability...

Blurring the Boundaries: Private Sector Involvement in Philadelphia Public Schools Apr 2005 Eva Gold, Jolley Bruce Christman, Katrina E. Bulkley, Elizabeth Useem

This paper focuses on the school district of Philadelphia following the state takeover. It explores the tensions between state pressures to shift power away from the district central office and tow...

A New Conception of Parent Engagement: Community Organizing for School Reform Oct 2004 Eva Gold, Elaine Simon, Chris Brown

This chapter provides an indicators framework for understanding the contributions of community organization to school reform and a theory of change model that shows the link between school improvem...

Bringing Community Organizing into the School Reform Picture Sep 2004 Eva Gold, Elaine Simon, Leah M. Mundell, Chris Brown

Community organizing is growing in importance as a means of achieving and sustaining urban school reform. The authors identify eight distinct areas in which community organizing groups are connecti...

Numeracy Practices and Classroom Imperatives: Chutes and Ladders Travels between Home and School Apr 2004 Eva Gold, Diane Downer Anderson, Rhonda Mordecai-Phillips

This conference paper reports on a one year pilot study carried out in an elementary school in Philadelphia, located in a low-income working class African American neighborhood. It discusses a youn...

Meanings of Cultural Participation at the Neighborhood Level: A Focus Group Analysis Apr 2004 Leah M. Mundell, Eva Gold, Elaine Simon, Gretchen E. L. Suess

This report was prepared for the Philadelphia Cultural Benchmark Project, a collaborative project between Research for Action, Audience Insight LLC, and the University of Pennsylvania's Social Impa...

Civic Leadership & State Takeover in Public Education: Conflict or Convergence Mar 2004 Elaine Simon, Eva Gold, Leah M. Mundell, Morgan Riffer, Maia Cucchiara

This paper was presented at the annual meeting of the Urban Affairs Association. In this paper, the authors explore the transition from the previous reform era in Philadelphia to a radically differ...

Public Accountability: School Improvement Efforts Need The Active Involvement of Communities to Succeed Jan 2004 Eva Gold, Elaine Simon

The Philadelphia-based Research for Action and the Chicago-based Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform recently conducted a national study that examines the work of community organizing group...

Reframing Accountability for Urban Public Schools Jun 2003 Eva Gold, Elaine Simon, Chris Brown

Based on their research with community-organizing groups, Eva Gold and Elaine Simon from Research for Action and Chris Brown from the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform describe four strat...