Caitlin Dawkins, a principal technical assistance consultant at AIR, helped to develop the concept of Second Chance Month, with colleagues at Prison Fellowship. In this Q&A, Dawkins explains why successful reentry is hard to measure and dispels some misconceptions around reentry.
Research has shared ideas on how best to support the social-emotional health of students, and the AIR-developed resource, Supporting Student Well-Being and Learning: A Transition Tool, is designed to provide district leadership teams with the tools to implement effective approaches to addressing student mental health and learning. ...
The 2020‒21 school year has begun like no other in the recent history as millions of students are learning online and the services and supports that schools can offer are limited due to concerns about COVID-19. Educators, practitioners and policymakers are invited to join AIR and colleagues from across the ...
The science of learning and development (SoLD) is a body of knowledge that describes how people learn and develop. For the SoLD Alliance, AIR has developed a planning tool to assist educators in implementing the Guiding Principles for Equitable Whole Child Design.
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP) gave states an opportunity to permanently expand coverage from 60 days to 12 months postpartum through a State Plan Amendment (SPA) as of April 1, 2022. Building on work that started as part of the ARP National Evaluation, AIR summarized state uptake ...
AIR developed a systematic, transparent, evidence-based protocol to review and translate the extant research about juvenile drug courts and related interventions into comprehensive, reasonable, actionable, understandable, and measurable guidelines.
More than 12 million people are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. Because they tend to have greater health needs and lower incomes than other Medicare beneficiaries, dually eligible people often experience challenges with care delivery and integration between Medicare and Medicaid. With support from Arnold Ventures, AIR aimed to ...
Under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, CMS awarded 20 states planning grants to increase their capacity to provide community-based mobile crisis intervention services for Medicaid individuals. Building on work that started as part of the ARP National Evaluation, AIR summarized awardee state use of planning grants through a ...
To improve services to students and families, we need information on what districts and charter management organizations are doing and plan to do to address COVID-19. From mid-May through July 2020, we are asking school district and charter management organization leaders to respond to a nationally representative survey of school ...
The closure of school buildings and the sudden shift to virtual learning last spring due to the coronavirus pandemic created many challenges for school districts in how they serve all students, including those with disabilities and those who are English learners. New results from an AIR survey examine how school ...