Children Achieving: Philadelphia Urban School Reform Evaluation Data

Philadelphia's Children Achieving initiative was a systemic reform of the city's school system evaluated between the 1995-1996 and 2000-2001 school years. The Consortium for Policy Research in Education and Research for Action conducted the evaluation, which involved interviews with hundreds of stakeholders, classroom observations, teacher surveys, and analysis of test scores. The dataset likely contains qualitative and quantitative findings from this multi-year study.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the implementation of systemic education reform based on interview and observation data.
• Evaluating policy outcomes based on independent analyses of district test results and performance indicators.
• Studying stakeholder perspectives on decentralization and accountability from teacher, principal, and parent interviews.

Strengths

• Evaluation conducted over five school years (1995-1996 to 2000-2001).
• Data collection involved hundreds of interviews and two systemwide teacher surveys.
• Analysis included independent review of district test scores and performance data.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The underlying data files, formats, and size are unknown.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) at the University of Pennsylvania and Research for Action (RFA).

Collection Method

Interviews, meeting observations, classroom observations, systemwide surveys, and analysis of district records.

Time Range

1995-1996 to 2000-2001 school years

Geography

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA