RFA designed a collaborative action research project for the Gratz Connection, a Pennsylvania Department of Education demonstration site for dropout prevention. The research involved teachers from a neighborhood high school and its 16 elementary and middle feeder schools. The project resulted in longitudinal case studies of 70 students’ educational experience as they moved from elementary to middle school and middle to high school.
A Participatory Evaluation of the Gratz Connection: School District of Philadelphia
Released January 1997