PSA explored the lessons learned by three cities in Asia Society’s Global Cities Education Network—Denver, Colorado; Hangzhou, China; and Hiroshima, Japan; to design and test new strategies for developing students’ 21st-century competencies.
Read MorePSA profiled the lessons learned by education leaders in Denver (Colorado), Hangzhou (China), and Hiroshima (Japan) about approaches to support the development of 21st century competencies in students.
Read MoreRaising Readers, a collaboration between the National Book Foundation and the New York City and Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD), aims to spark love of reading among adults so that they can inspire young people to expand their own engagement in reading.
Read MoreThe Wallace Foundation elaborated on findings from PSA’s evaluation of the Principal Pipeline Initiative. In this blog, Leslie Anderson highlights implications of the findings for districts that want to develop, operate, and sustain principal pipelines.
Read MoreA new follow-up report on the Wallace Foundation’s Principal Pipeline Initiative by PSA’s Leslie Anderson and Brenda Turnbull found that seven years after committing to building policies and procedures to develop school leaders—and two years after the end of foundation funding—districts continue to support the pipelines on their own.
Read MorePolicy Studies Associates has launched an important study of Reading Partners AmeriCorps alumni. Focused on alumni who completed at least one year of service between 2010 and 2018, the study will help Reading Partners deepen their understanding of the quality of the Reading Partners service experience and its effects on their AmeriCorps alumni, including their educational and/or career pathways as well as their beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors toward community and civic engagement.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Education has released Leading Low-Performing Schools. This study—conducted by PSA and Westat—describes the implementation of the federal Turnaround School Leaders Program.
Read MorePolicy Studies Associates (PSA) partnered with the Office of Out of School Time Grants and Youth Outcomes in the District of Columbia (D.C.) Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education to gather the voices of parents and youth on afterschool and summer programming.
Read MorePSA is working with the Center for Global Education at Asia Society to learn how school systems create, test, and refine practices that strengthen students’ 21st-century competencies. In this blog, Christina Russell summarizes the approaches explored by three cities in the Global Cities Education Network: Hangzhou, China; Denver, Colorado; and Hiroshima, Japan.
Read MoreThe National AfterSchool Association (NAA) has selected PSA as one of NAA’s 2018 Most Influential in Research and Evaluation, recognizing our contributions to research and evaluation on youth and adolescent development. PSA is proud to have partnered with programs, intermediaries and policymakers at the national, state and local levels, and proud to have played a role in contributing to the growth and quality of afterschool opportunities for young people for more than two decades.
Read MoreCommunity context plays a critical role in the integration of externally-developed parent engagement models into schools. This report presents findings from PSA’s evaluation of the Children’s Aid Parent Leadership Institute (PLI) and describes lessons learned from parent engagement coordinators’ efforts to balance the PLI’s core components with parents’ interests and principals’ visions for parent engagement in their schools.
Read MorePSA's evaluations of the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development's Cornerstone Mentoring program examine strategies to improve youth engagement in learning and to recruit and support mentors.
Read MorePSA's Christina Russell will be focused on the role of evaluation in strengthening programs in an invited panel session on "putting ideas to work" at the National Afterschool Association Annual Convention. PSA will also bridge research and practice in discussions about our research brief on digital learning and afterschool, written for NAA with support from Google.
Read MoreAfterschool programs are poised to play a key role in reducing the inequities in digital access and digital use. This brief for the National Afterschool Association, with support from Google, examines the research and recommends strategies for strengthening the capacity of afterschool professionals.
Read MorePSA's Leslie Anderson presented on the art and wisdom of developing a Leader Tracking System at the 2018 AASA National Conference on Education, based on the findings from our recent research for The Wallace Foundation.
Read MoreImproving on-the-job supports for principals was the most common school leadership priority for a large group of states involved in an effort to boost school leadership.
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Leader Tracking Systems: Turning Data Into Information for School Leadership
Read MorePSA’s review of 25 years of evaluations of afterschool programs was featured in the
National Afterschool Association’s summer 2017 issue of AfterSchool Today
Six large school districts aiming to develop a larger corps of effective school leaders have made major strides in building pipelines to the principalship.
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