This spotlight takes a look at the history of Title I, how the program has changed over time, and how it affects children, schools, families and education policy. Experts weigh in on the program's past and future in interviews, briefs, and blogs.
The AIR Economic Evaluation of Policies and Programs (EEPP) Methods Hub focuses on three types of economic evaluations: cost analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and cost-benefit/return-on-investment analysis. We use our expertise to promote and conduct rigorous economic evaluations for projects led by AIR and our external partners. ...
AIR is developing a benchmarking tool as part of the World Bank’s System Assessment and Benchmarking for Education Results project that will allow countries to analyze their progress in implementing curriculum-based learning standards. The tool will be developed in conjunction with extensive research on the conditions and policies needed to ...
Of the approximately 175 countries on the World Bank’s Human Capital Index, Burkina Faso scores among the lowest, with more than 40 percent of the country’s population living below the national poverty line. In response to recurrent food crises, high levels of malnutrition, and low and unequal levels of education ...
Over the past three decades, charter schools have become the most popular form of school choice, especially in urban school districts. Using data from Florida, this study investigates the degree to which differences in teacher quality explain the effectiveness of charter schools.
The Honduran education system, although free and compulsory for nine years, faces many uphill challenges. The MIDEH project supports the government of Honduras to improve education quality by building and sustaining national standards-based educational reform. Through a collaborative effort between USAID and the Secretariat of Education in Honduras, the project ...
Despite efforts by the Mozambican government to improve access to pre-primary education, many challenges remain in the education system overall and in pre-primary education. AIR conducted a mixed-methods experimental evaluation of a pilot program being implemented to improve children’s educational outcomes through a pre-primary intervention in target districts and communities ...
AIR experts played a key role in producing America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2015, a biennial report focusing on children up to 17 years old. The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics released the report. The report uses data from nationally representative, federally sponsored surveys, grouped ...
Now in its fourth phase, Global Communities is focusing on strengthening the capacity of program stakeholders to sustain previous Food for Education program achievements in 231 schools in the Dodoma and Mara regions of Tanzania. AIR is conducting the project evaluation for the fourth phase of the project (2022-2027). ...
Through AIR’s Scholars and Leaders Award – a part of AIR’s Equity Initiative – our team is excited to examine whether – and to what extent – structural inequities to access to education in a child’s own language impacts learning outcomes for children in India.