The Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education’s (OCTAE) is engaged in ongoing efforts to ensure that all adult students, including English language learners (ELLs), can obtain the knowledge and skills necessary for employment and self-sufficiency. This project built upon tools and material developed by OCTAE to produce resources to ...
AIR, in conjunction with Carilion Medical Center, is developing a series of socio-technical probabilistic risk assessment (ST-PRA) models to evaluate the effectiveness of team training in health care.
On April 28, 2022, AIR will present Employment as a Social Determinant of Addiction, the third webinar in a series from AIR CARES. The webinar will focus on efforts to provide workplace accommodations for those with substance use disorder and best practices for retaining valuable employees irrespective of their drug ...
Interest in work-based learning has grown as a strategy for providing opportunities for students to learn and demonstrate career-readiness skills. This resource explores how states and districts can use intermediary strategies to build high-quality work-based learning systems.
New analysis by the American Institutes for Research finds that those with disabilities earn 64 cents to every dollar their colleagues make, a disparity on par with the gender pay gap. Considering that equal pay is vital to keeping those with disabilities financially independent and out of poverty, our panelists ...
Experts with AIR will explore topics in career and technical education at the “CareerTech Vision 2016” conference, being held Nov. 30 through Dec. 3 in Las Vegas. The conference is sponsored by the Association for Career & Technical Education, which is devoted to helping prepare youth and adults for a ...
Developing and implementing a national educational assessment system for monitoring and supporting quality of education is a key investment for ensuring that quality goals of education in Bangladesh will be reached as planned. AIR provides technical assistance to the Ministry of Education in Bangladesh in developing, analyzing, and reporting national ...
AIR is using a newly merged dataset to release the first-ever series of reports on the the Post-9/11 GI Bill outcomes for veterans across all branches of the military. Specifically, our reports will examine the extent to which eligible veterans are using benefits and the barriers to doing so.
The initiatives to enhance adult learning program accountability and assessment systems of the following states are described in this paper: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Oregon, Texas, Washington, West Virginia.
In this blog post, AIR Senior TA Consultant Abby Bandurraga describes how connecting apprenticeship professionals and supporting them in their work can promote the use of best practices and contribute to expanding and diversifying apprenticeship programs in the U.S.