The COVID-19 and Equity in Education Community is a collaborative network of emerging, established, and local researchers dedicated to advancing equity in education through focused research and engagement on the pandemic and pandemic recovery experiences of Black and Latino students and/or students experiencing poverty. ...
Student learning objectives (SLOs) are emerging as one measure to assess teachers' contributions to student growth in educator evaluation systems. To support states and districts in developing and implementing SLOs, the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders is curating a searchable collection of SLO resources. ...
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 ...
The Miami-Dade County Public Schools Project Lead Strong was designed to develop leadership capacity in chronically low-performing schools. Assistant principals and principals in higher performing schools are formally trained to lead turnaround schools by participating in professional development and job-shadowing experiences. AIR is conducting an evaluation of this initiative, tracking ...
AIR partnered with Fisk and Vanderbilt Universities to research and disseminate information about the Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to-PhD Bridge Program, an initiative that supports diversity and inclusion in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) postsecondary programs.
Education finance experts from AIR will present on a variety of topics at the 48th annual Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) conference, March 23-25 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Denver, Co. AEFP is dedicated to the promotion of research and partnerships that can inform education policy and ...
When the 2017 NAEP Mathematics TUDA (Trial Urban District Assessment) results were reported and it appeared that student performance trends on the NAEP were not similar to student performance trends on the state assessments that were aligned to college and career ready standards, a reanalysis study was designed to explore ...
When teachers learn, students learn. For decades, AIR has conducted studies of teacher professional learning and helped practitioners use evidence to develop, implement, test, and scale professional learning programs.
A quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) is a voluntary state assessment system that uses multidimensional data on early childhood education programs to rate program quality, support quality improvement efforts, and provide information to families about the quality of available early childhood education programs. This report describes three versions of ...
The foster care system was already overburdened before the coronavirus pandemic hit. Now, it faces even more challenges. AIR early childhood expert and licensed foster mom Ann-Marie Faria discusses these challenges and potential ways to address them in the latest podcast episode.