Informing High School Choices: The Progress & Challenges of Small High Schools in Philadelphia Jan 2008 Tracey A. Hartmann, Holly Plastaras Maluk, Rebecca J. Reumann-Moore

In the School District of Philadelphia in 2007-08, almost one third of high school students attend one of the district's 32 small high schools. Of these, 26 have been newly created or significantl...

Making A Difference: Year Two Report of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative - Executive Summary Nov 2007 Diane C. Brown, Rebecca J. Reumann-Moore, Roseann Hugh, Jolley Bruce Christman, Morgan Riffer, Pierre L. du Plessis, Holly Plastaras Maluk

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...

Making A Difference: Year Two Report of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative Nov 2007 Diane C. Brown, Rebecca J. Reumann-Moore, Roseann Hugh, Jolley Bruce Christman, Morgan Riffer, Pierre L. du Plessis, Holly Plastaras Maluk

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...

'Going Small': Start Up and Early Implementation of Small High Schools in Philadelphia Apr 2007 Rebecca J. Reumann-Moore, Tracey A. Hartmann

The summary of findings from year one of Research for Action's study, 'Going Small: Public Private Collaboration in Restructuring High School Education in Philadelphia' provides a brief introductio...

Promising InRoads: Year One of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative - Executive Summary Sep 2006 Diane C. Brown, Rebecca J. Reumann-Moore, Roseann Hugh, Pierre L. du Plessis, Jolley Bruce Christman

Executive summary to the report that examines the implementation of the first year of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative. Funded by the Annenberg Foundation, it is an on-site profess...

Promising InRoads: Year One Report of the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative Sep 2006 Diane C. Brown, Rebecca J. Reumann-Moore, Roseann Hugh, Pierre L. du Plessis, Jolley Bruce Christman

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...

Six years of Philadelphia GEAR UP Feb 2006 Rebecca J. Reumann-Moore

This summary report draws on multiple years of research about Philadelphia Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) to assess GEAR UP's progress toward meeting thr...

Six years of Philadelphia GEAR UP - Executive summary Feb 2006 Rebecca J. Reumann-Moore

This executive summary gives an overview of major challenges, key outcomes for each goal, and recomendations after six years of Philadelphia GEAR UP. GEAR UP had three explicit primary goals: Enh...

Children at Play: An Evaluation of EW/NSCC's Socialized Pecess program - Executive Summary Jan 2006 Rebecca J. Reumann-Moore, Gretchen E. L. Suess

The Executive Summary for the report evaluating socialized recess programs conducted by Education Works/National School and Community Corps (EW/NSCC) school-based teams. It is intended to give EW/N...

National School and Community Corps 2005: Members' perspectives on service and its impact - An evaluation report for EducationWorks Jan 2006 Rebecca J. Reumann-Moore, Gretchen E. L. Suess

This report to EducationWorks on the National School and Community Corps presents an analysis of how corpsmembers' service experience affected their attitudes about civic responsibility and self, t...

National School and Community Corps 2005: Members' perspectives on service and its impact - Executive Summary Jan 2006 Rebecca J. Reumann-Moore, Gretchen E. L. Suess

Summary of a report to EducationWorks on the National School and Community Corps that presents data that speak strongly to the impact of service on corpsmembers, providing perceptions that enable a...

Children at Play: An Evaluation of EW/NSCC's Socialized Recess Program Jan 2006 Rebecca J. Reumann-Moore, Gretchen E. L. Suess

This report evaluates socialized recess programs conducted by Education Works/National School and Community Corps (EW/NSCC) school-based teams. It is intended to give EW/NSCC deeper insights into t...

Reduced Class Size/Balanced Literacy initiative helps with staffing issues: Homegrown program succeeds in teacher recruitment, retention Dec 2003 Rebecca J. Reumann-Moore, Rachel Mausner

Nationally and here in Philadelphia, finding and keeping effective urban teachers is an urgent priority and an ongoing challenge. Too often, urban schools serving the highest proportions of low-inc...

Friends for School Purposes: Learning Communities and their Role in Building Community at a Large Urban University Aug 1997 Rebecca J. Reumann-Moore, Eva Gold, Thea Renda Abu El-Haj, Tabatha Abu El-Haj

An analysis of the Learning Communities program at Temple University in Philadelphia, launched in 1993 with funding from the Pew Charitable Trusts. The program was created with the aim of improving...

An Evaluation of the Regional Environmental Education Program Middle School and High School Curriculum Oct 1996 Rebecca J. Reumann-Moore, Steve Gulkus

An evaluation of the Regional Environmental Education Program (REEP) developed by the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education (SCEE) to promote awareness of environmental issues among schoolc...