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PSA 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.

The 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. 

Community 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.

PSA'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.

PSA'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.