This article presents an analysis, based on School District data, of the rates of teacher turnover between June and September 2002 at schools assigned by the School Reform Commission to…

…and believe that urban students, communities, and schools need additional resources in order to achieve educational equity. This paper is drawn from Research for Action’s evaluation of the Urban Systemic…

…A primary finding was that communications and decision-making became both complicated and confusing. Many principals felt like they were ‘serving two masters,’ which resulted in both duplication of tasks and…

Based on their research with community-organizing groups, Eva Gold and Elaine Simon from Research for Action and Chris Brown from the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform describe four…

…are staffed by the least experienced, least trained teachers. According to Research for Action’s research, a joint program of the School District of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Education Fund, called…

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…of the School District of Philadelphia, with some tentative conclusions about the first year under the diverse providers model. content-module 1 View the Publication Download the Publication Visit Original Source…