Suzanne (Sukey) Blanc

Suzanne (Sukey) Blanc is a senior research associate at Research for Action. She is the co-author of the major report From the Ground Up: The Logan Square Neighborhood Association's Approach to Building Community Capacity. She is the author of numerous reports in the areas of mathematics and science education and is interested in the relationship between urban school reform and equity issues. Sukey is also a Research Director on the project, "Learning from Philadelphia's School Reforms: A Research and Public Awareness Project." She can be reached at sblanc@researchforaction.org.

Jolley Bruce Christman

Jolley Bruce Christman is a founder and Principal at Research for Action. She has published in the areas of urban school reform, students' perspectives on their educational experience, civic engagement and urban school reform, evaluation methodology, and feminist theory and research methods. Dr. Christman recently completed a five-year evaluation of Philadelphia's systemic reform effort, Children Achieving, and authored the reports: Powerful Ideas, Modest Gains: Five Years of Systemic Reform in Philadelphia Middle Schools and Civic Engagement in Urban School Reform: Hard to Learn Lessons from Philadelphia and, with Tom Corcoran, The Limits and Contradictions of Systemic Reform: The Philadelphia Story. Currently, Jolley is a research director of the "Learning from Philadelphia's School Reform" project. She can be reached at christman@researchforaction.org.