RFA's study on high school choice builds on the Learning from Philadelphia's School Reform study and turns RFA's attention to the improvement of Philadelphia's high schools - a focus that ...
Southeastern Pennsylvania has been selected as one of four sites for funding from Communities for Public Education Reform (CPER), a national philanthropic collaborative aimed at increasing student ...
Need in Deed, a Philadelphia-based organization, prepares and supports teachers as they integrate service-learning into their classroom practice. RFA is currently conducting a one-year outcomes eva...
RFA is evaluating a partnership between Rutgers University and surrounding school districts. In this partnership, graduate students in mathematics and science team up with middle school teachers wi...
MetroMath is a partnership among Rutgers, University of Pennsylvania, and City University of New York, funded by the National Science Foundation, with the goal of developing a new generation of lea...
RFA is analysing the campaigns of two Philadelphia youth organizing groups, the Philadelphia Student Union (PSU) and Youth United for Change (YUC), to transform their neighborhood high schools into...
RU-STEPed Up for Success, funded by the National Science Foundation, seeks to increase the student retention rate in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors. It offers a ser...
RFA is a subcontractor to the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) on this three-year research project, which addresses the question: Does feedback on instruction provided in conjunct...
The National Constitution Center is currently in the 4th year of a partnership with the School District of Philadelphia. During those four years they have been involved in planning, designing, and ...
The College Access Foundation (CAF) is a California-based foundation which seeks to expand the opportunities for students with financial needs to attend college. CAF does this work by supporting co...
RFA is partnering with Youth United for Change (YUC), a local youth organizing group, in a participatory action research (PAR) project focused on high school student engagement and dropout. Many P...
SYTE is a tuition guarantee program that provides students and families from low-income neighborhoods with college or other post-secondary training. RFA is collaborating with the SYTE staff to cond...
RFA has been contracted by City Year Miami and the Knight Foundation to conduct a two-year mixed-method evaluation study of City Year's Whole School Whole Child (WSWC) model. The program components...
Research for Action is engaged in an evaluation of the Camden Middle Grades Initiative. The Rutgers Institute for Improving Student Achievement (RIISA) and the Center for Evidence-Based Education ...
RFA is conducting an action research project at West Philadelphia High School to address several crucial questions: What is West Philadelphia High School (WPHS) currently doing to address the needs...
RFA is conducting evaluation research for City Year Greater Philadelphia in 2009-2010. This research has two major purposes. (1) summative research uses survey and student outcome data to address p...
The William Penn Foundation funds Center for Literacy's Integrated Literacy Model (ILM) at West Philadelphia High School and hired RFA to conduct an evaluation of the model. This pilot project aims...
RFA is evaluating a grant that the Donor’s Education Collaborative (DEC) in New York City has awarded to a set of advocacy and organizing groups. The grant is supporting the development of a coali...
CONGRESO is a non-profit social service organization in Philadelphia that has a long history working with children and youth in the Philadelphia School System as well as the Juvenile Justice system...
Philadelphia Youth Network (PYN) manages 11 Student Success Centers (SSCs) that are housed in Philadelphia public high schools, to help equip students with 21st-century workforce skills and ensure ...
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