Nearly five decades of research has demonstrated that the places where individuals live and learn have a dramatic impact on their opportunities and life outcomes. The College and Career Readiness and Success Center has collaborated with several state and local agencies to produce custom-designed maps using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) ...
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.
Preparing students for the careers of tomorrow requires policymakers and leaders to engage cross-sector stakeholders (e.g., education, workforce, industry) to create policy environments that support college and career readiness and opportunity for all students. The following resources from the CCRS Center highlight strategies such as using geographic information systems to ...
Parents and students want to know: Who or what is to blame for the skyrocketing (up 50 percent in 10 years) cost of a college education? In this blog post, Donna Desrochers delves into a new analysis from AIR’s Delta Cost Project that breaks down staffing and compensation changes ...
In providing professional development opportunities for adult educators, the goal of the California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project (CALPRO) is to enhance student learning gains and to help adult learners meet their goals as productive workers, family and community members, and lifelong learners. Beginning in 2001, the California Department of ...
States and districts can support successful transition from secondary to postsecondary education and career pathways by ensuring academic standards are meaningful for all students and aligned with postsecondary entrance requirements. The following resources from the CCRS Center highlight some strategies such as competency-based education that states and districts can consider ...
Higher Achievement closes the opportunity gap during the pivotal middle school years by leveraging the power of communities through rigorous year-round learning in a safe environment with caring role models and a culture of high expectations. Higher Achievement worked with a team from AIR to develop a series of social ...
AIR believes that personalized learning efforts must have critical foundational elements, build in the relevant essential hallmarks, and opportunities to amplify learning with technology. Our approach to personalized learning draws upon our rigorous research base and strong field experience in facilitating educational system change efforts across the nation and globe. ...
AIR is working with the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity and Accountability to examine a rarely studied aspect of higher education finance: how colleges and universities spend money.