Lawrence Jones

Taking Stock/Making Change is a series of reports generated during a collaborative action research project in which self-study teams from five Philadelphia schools sought to connect self-assessment to school restructuring. The five case studies each…

This article is based on a collaborative study between Philadelphia Student Union and Research for Action, which explores parents’ perceptions about parent participation in urban high schools. The link to the full report, Writing to…

For the past two years, RFA researchers worked with student members of Youth United for Change (YUC) and Philadelphia Student Union (PSU) on developing their social science research skills as they conducted studies of their…