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Achieving universal literacy is one of the international community’s most engaging and admirable aspirations. AIR implemented the USAID-funded Teacher Citizen ...
How can research inform and improve literacy in the U.S. and around the world? In honor of International Literacy Day ...
The annual Condition of Education 2018 provides new insight into the costs and availability of child care options. Spotlight author ...
Like many other states, Tennessee is facing an opioid epidemic. As part of their Prevention for States activities, the Tennessee ...
The lack of easy data sharing between K–12 systems and teacher preparation may be costly, in terms of the quality ...
Since 2001, AIR has been working in Zambia, conducting multi-method impact and process evaluations across many sectors such as health, ...
The Minnesota Department of Education is developing several learning goals in the new Social and Emotional Learning Framework. The framework ...
Created in 2010 by the Kindergarten Readiness Act, transitional kindergarten (TK) offers younger children in California additional time to prepare ...
Recent research has demonstrated that when schools and districts focus on social and emotional learning (SEL), students’ academic achievement, prosocial ...
Through the national Comprehensive Centers Program and Regional Education Laboratories, AIR is building states’ capacity to support their districts and ...
Natural disasters such as hurricanes often are not one-time, discrete events but rather, the start of ongoing traumatic stresses. Survivors ...
Decades of research have shown the harmful effects of poverty on student performance. Title I schools in Texas face particular ...
With 100,000 English learners spread across more than 2,500 schools and more than 130 charter schools in 115 school districts, ...
Longstanding debate about how to ensure and measure excellent health care abounds. Increasingly health professionals, insurers, researchers and, indeed, patients ...
The Minnesota Department of Education administers about 65 surveys a year. These surveys help gauge needs, gather feedback, inform programs ...
Now that states have started submitting their Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plans, the hard work of implementation will soon ...
Colleges and universities are relying heavily on contingent faculty to increase flexibility and reduce costs. These resources explore this trend ...
Better schools help make better communities and improve students’ chances of success. But what does research tell us about what ...
Through AIR's work with the USAID's Quality Reading Project in Tajikistan, local fourth-grade teacher Guljahon Rahmonova received specialized in-service training. ...
More than nine million individuals are released from correctional facilities annually, and the transition home is not always easy. Many ...