Displaced workers are a critical and growing concern in our rapidly changing economy; the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic challenges have exacerbated these issues. PROMISE Center researchers are developing a proactive knowledge- and field-building agenda to discover and significantly expand the availability of effective supports for displaced workers. ...
The New York City Department of Education contracted with AIR to evaluate the extent to which the Common Core curriculum has been implemented in schools and to examine the impact of professional development.
New York State Education Commissioner John B. King, Jr. today announced that American Institutes for Research (AIR) has been awarded a contract to develop methodologies and measures for the student growth component of the State's new teacher and principal evaluation system.
A relatively new college funding model designed as an alternative to loans is unlikely to help most students, particularly poor students who need it most, according to a new study. The AIR study examines the potential of income share agreements, which essentially allow investors to buy stock in students, to ...
CBAM is a conceptual framework that provides tools and techniques for facilitating and assessing the implementation of new innovations or reform initiatives. The underlying premise of CBAM is implementing a new initiative requires more than the provision of materials, resources, and training; it requires the understanding that each person involved ...
The National Center for Healthy Safe Children offers resources, training, and technical assistance to support states, tribes, territories, and local communities as they promote overall wellbeing for students and their families.
This paper traces the evolution of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) program with an emphasis on the concurrent evolution of NAEP’s primary and secondary purposes. The most detailed treatment is given to the modern era, with the author devoting separate sections to the legislation governing NAEP, the schedule ...