The Ohio Department of Education recently awarded AIR a contract to identify and cost out best practices for providing services to students with disabilities. In addition to informing Ohio on how its special education funding policy might be improved, this work also relies on AIR’s technical assistance expertise to support ...
Nearly 100 education experts from AIR will present current research findings during the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, being held April 27-May 1, 2017, in San Antonio, TX. This year’s meeting theme, “Knowledge to Action: Achieving the Promise of Equal Educational Opportunity,” is framed around historical and ...
Drew Atchison is a principal researcher at AIR. His primary responsibilities include quantitative analysis on a wide range of projects examining topics such as accountability, education finance, and educational equity. Dr. Atchison has led the quantitative analysis for several reports commissioned by the Department of Education including the Study of ...
Community Leaders in Health Equity (CLHE) was a community-based leadership program funded by The Colorado Trust and designed specifically to develop health equity leaders around the state. Out of a desire to continue supporting CLHE participants and nurturing their leadership skills, The Colorado Trust and Transformative Alliances developed the CLHE ...
Beth Howard-Brown is a principal technical assistance consultant at AIR. She is currently supporting the early warning and intervention and monitoring system project and the AIR social and emotional learning solutions group. Dr. Howard-Brown has over 25 years of experience leading and managing local, state and federal initiatives. She served ...
In February 2014, President Obama launched the My Brother’s Keeper initiative. This week, the president is announcing an additional $104 million in funding from new partnerships with public and private groups to address the opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color at critical stages throughout their lives. ...
Attaining some kind of college degree is the surest way to improve one’s earnings in the United States. But many college students earn credentials with little labor market value or don’t attain any credential at all. Many—especially in our community colleges—could get into better colleges than they end up attending. ...
Sam Rikoon is a senior researcher in the Youth, Family, and Community Development program at AIR. He has extensive experience applying quantitative methods to the development and validation of measures of social and emotional learning (SEL) and other hard-to-measure constructs for use with populations ranging from early childhood through those ...
Parents, teachers, schools, districts, states, and especially students all want schools that prepare graduates to thrive in the 21st century. In this blog post, Anne Mishkind asks what it means to be "college and career ready."
Many students rely on student loans as a way of covering college expenses and for many, loan repayments exceed their ability to repay, leading to financial distress or default. Income share agreements are an income-driven college financing option in which an investor provides a student with the funds required to ...