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RFA Op-Ed Featured in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
…student test scores. RFA researchers Mark Duffy, Della Jenkins, and Adam Schott penned an op-ed that appeared in the Sunday, December 6 edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in which they…
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Pennsylvania’s Voluntary Student Retention Due to COVID-19 Learning Disruptions
…field and research is, not surprisingly, mixed and nuanced. For example, retention criteria and the services students who were retained received varied across studies; less research has been conducted for…
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Reimagining College Admissions
…commitment to community-engaged research and working cooperatively with those whose lived experience will intersect with the decisions that result from our research, the Reimagining College Admissions project will convene advisory…
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Saxon Nelson
Director of Community Engagement snelson@researchforaction.org 267-738-9945 B.A. in Marketing: Chestnut Hill College 1 Saxon Nelson serves as RFA’s Director of Community Engagement. He provides leadership, strategic planning, and visioning to…
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David Lapp
Senior Fellow, Policy Research dlapp@researchforaction.org 267-295-7761 2 David Lapp serves as RFA’s Director of Policy Research where he oversees a range of projects at the nexus of education research and…
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The State of Higher Education Finance During the COVID-19 Pandemic
…the pandemic? Our latest project with the Gates Foundation, State Responses to COVID-19 – Implications for Outcomes-Based Funding and Promise programs, examines how funding for Higher Education programs and policies,…
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The Philadelphia Education Research Consortium (PERC)
1 Launched in August 2014 to provide research on some of the city’s most pressing education issues, the Philadelphia Education Research Consortium (PERC) is a currently partnership between Research for…
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RFA Featured in Education Week
This week’s edition of Education Week is focused on the opt-out movement, and features an interactive section called “Inside Opt-Out: The Pushback Against Testing.” An RFA commentary piece, authored by…
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RFA Releases New School Closing Analysis
Research for Action’s analysis of the School District of Philadelphia’s revised school closing plan is intended to inform the current conversation by providing a comparison of closing and receiving schools…