PSA’s Derek Riley and Christina Russell summarized system-level strategies for advancing educational equity, based on lessons learned from a learning cohort of 10 districts convened by the Center for Global Education and Asia Society.
Read MorePSA worked with CCSSO to develop a reading resource intended to help improve national student reading performance. The resource builds on a discussion with state chiefs, reading experts, policy experts, and other stakeholder groups at the CCSSO’s 2020 Literacy Summit (CCSSO Hosts Literacy Summit | CCSSO).
Read MoreCo-edited by PSA’s Christina Russell and featuring a chapter by Jason Spector, Measure, Use, Improve! Data Use in Out-of-School Time (Information Age Publishing, 2020) shares the experience and wisdom from a broad cross-section of out-of-school time professionals, ranging from internal evaluators, to funders, to researchers, to policy advocates. Measure, Use, Improve! offers a guide for building a system of evaluation, with resources and ideas for evaluators and out-of-school organizations just getting started on their data journeys, and for those seeking to build and apply new knowledge to program improvement.
Read MoreNew PSA study finds that Reading Partners fosters the professional skills of its AmeriCorps members as well as informs their educational and career pathways, and influences their beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors related to civic engagement. See study overview, executive summary, and reports here.
Read MorePSA evaluated a drop-in, library-based out-of-school time (OST) program in Philadelphia, with support from the William Penn Foundation. Our evaluation of LEAP (Literacy Enrichment Afterschool Program), operated by the Free Library of Philadelphia, explored the program’s contribution to the City of Philadelphia’s comprehensive OST system.
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