This report compares the way the School District of Philadelphia goes about hiring and placing teachers in schools with the practices of other districts. We did this to inform the…

…schools, 51 charter schools, and 10 special admission schools. Research for Action (RFA), a Philadelphia-based nonprofit education research group has been monitoring the effects of these changes in the Philadelphia…

Anthropology prepares researchers for many aspects of evaluation work, but academic training provides insufficient preparation for four roles expected in evaluation research: organizational consultant, negotiator, project manager, and knowledge disseminator….

This report was prepared for the Philadelphia Cultural Benchmark Project, a collaborative project between Research for Action, Audience Insight LLC, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Social Impacts of the Arts…

This report is based on research focusing on understanding and assessing how Local Education Funds (LEFs)carryout their mission and demonstrate success. It offers a conceptual model for understanding the decisions…

…students. All but a few were in the third grade when the evaluation began. This evaluation examines the effect and the outcomes of the program on children and their families….