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 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...

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 ...

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 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...

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 ...

RFA recently concluded Learning from Philadelphia’s School Reform, a comprehensive, multi-year study of Philadelphia's complex and radical school reform effort following the Pennsylvania ...

RFA examined the planning and early implementation of the School District of Philadelphia’s small schools strategy for high school reform, focusing especially on the significant role of public/priv...

RFA's study on the use of data focuses on low-performing urban elementary and middle schools that are under significant pressure to improve student achievement and to use student data to accomplish...

The Accountability Review Council (ARC) commissioned Research for Action to conduct a qualitative study that would shed light on the kinds of practices used in relatively successful Philadelphia sc...

The Philadelphia Education Fund and the School District of Philadelphia are partnering to convene a broad-based planning process to design a five-year blueprint for the redesign of Philadelphia's h...

The Parent Leadership Academy (PLA) was an initiative of the School District and the William Penn Foundation to increase parent involvement and leadership in schools and communities. PLAs were regi...

The School District of Philadelphia has contracted with RFA to conduct an evaluation of its Faith Partnerships program. This study will explore schools’ perspectives on their partnerships with reli...

RFA is assisting researchers at Johns Hopkins University who are principal investigators in an NSF-funded project to study long term trends in mathematics and science reform in the middle grades in...

NSCC is an Americorps National Service Program. Full-time NSCC participants implement academic and other support programs in public schools during the school day; they also carry out after-school a...