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.
A new study co-authored by AIR expert Mark Schneider finds that 51 percent of Hispanic college students earn an undergraduate degree in six years, compared with 59 percent of white students. Hispanic students graduate at lower rates than their white peers across similarly ranked institutions – from the nation's least ...
The Wind River Elementary Computer Science Collaborative is team of teachers, professional development providers, and researchers working together to bring culturally relevant computer science education to Indigenous elementary school students who live on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.
There is a growing consensus among researchers that lifelong learning skills (LLS) are discretely identifiable and actionable levers of support for college and career readiness and success objectives. This policy brief provides a synthesis of the key takeaways from the annotated bibliography and describes policy considerations for integrating LLS into ...
Big data has entered the field of education increasingly over the last decade. The most important factor for this increase is the introduction of online/digital learning and assessment environments. AIR is working with NCES to maximize the potential of this data to deepen our understanding of student behavior and assessment ...
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.
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 ...
Thomas Snyder is a managing director at AIR, with over 40 years of experience in working with the federal statistical system. He serves as a project advisor and reviewer for the Data Analytic and Evaluation Studies project for the Department of Education Office of the Chief Data Officer and directs ...
This contract is part of the development of the Guide for Selecting and Adopting Evidence-Based Practices for Children and Adolescents with Disruptive Behavior Disorders, funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for Mental Health.