Experts with AIR developed and wrote a planning guide for educators aimed at promoting positive school climates and ending disparities in administering student discipline. The guide was released during a Rethink School Discipline event at the White House. Addressing the Root Causes of Disparities in School Discipline, An Educator’s Guide, ...
While there are many interventions aimed at boosting young children’s language and literacy skills, there are fewer aimed at improving math learning for young children, and even fewer that target children younger than preschool or kindergarten age. AIR and its partners developed the Math4Littles program to help parents and caregivers ...
Through our Meet the Expert feature, get to know some of AIR’s key staff, learning what drives and keeps them going, the work they find most meaningful, and even a little bit about how they spend their personal time.
AIR education finance experts will present on a variety of topics at the 47th annual Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) conference, March 17-19 at the Hilton Denver City Center in Denver, Co. This year’s conference theme is “Assessing the Responses of Education Finance and Policy to the Dual ...
States embraced Common Core State Standards partly to establish more rigor and uniformity in what students should know to be on track for college or career as they approach high school graduation. But a new AIR study finds that achievement standards among states still vary widely, with only a handful ...
Practitioners and researchers agree that social and emotional learning (SEL) is essential to academic achievement and well-being in school, as well as success in college and career. Above and beyond the free supports that AIR’s federal technical assistance centers provide, SEL Solutions at AIR offers an approach to keep social ...
AIR CARES recognizes that employment interventions have a positive impact on addiction treatment outcomes and employment can be an effective addiction prevention and recovery strategy. Moreover, evidence points to higher rates of unemployment often preceding increases in substance use.