This website is devoted to helping users redefine who has the expertise to: 1) produce knowledge to our world, 2) provide skills in inquiry, evidence and presentation that are important to young people’s development as student agents of positive change, 3) generate findings that provides insights into issues faced by young people that they themselves experience, and 4) promote young people’s sociopolitical development and empowerment such that they understand the roots of problems facing their communities. With PAR you can evaluate programs, policies, and practices that affect young people.
Related Resources

Requesting Data from Your District
Every two years, the federal Civil Rights Data Collection gathers data from every public school district, including charter schools, juvenile justice facilities and alternative schools. The latest data available on ... MORE

Participatory Action Research: Understanding your Districts Discipline Data
What are the opportunities to use data for greater leverage toward systemic change? This video/training explores a dialogue that complicates our relationship with data and goes beyond traditional inquiries into ... MORE

Education Not Deportation: Impacts of New York City School Safety Policies on South Asian Immigrant Youth
This report from Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) is based on a Participatory Action Research (PAR) project that documents South Asian youths’ experiences with police, school safety officers, and ... MORE