The Time is Now: Youth Organize to Transform Philadelphia Schools Jun 2007 Gretchen E. L. Suess, Kristine S. Lewis

Through a study of public school reform in Philadelphia, Research for Action (RFA) has focused on youth roles in civic engagement. Two local youth organizations at three high schools have researche...

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 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...

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...

Cultural Leaders' Reflections on Cultural Participation and Preliminary Research May 2005 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...

Youth Leaders Carry on Campaign for Small Schools Mar 2005 Gretchen E. L. Suess, Kristine S. Lewis

This article describes the work of the student organizing groups Youth United for Change and Philadelphia Student Union as they campaign to have their neighborhood high schools turned into small sc...

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...