The college admissions scandal that broke in March 2019 drew attention to the lengths that a few people go to cheat or pay their children’s way into these colleges, and to the way colleges make decisions about who gets accepted. Alexandria Walton Radford, a managing researcher at AIR and director ...
AIR developed this second edition of the National Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Children and Youth Who are Neglected, Delinquent, or At Risk’s Transition Toolkit.
As dual credit education has become a popular vehicle in Texas and other states to encourage students to earn degrees and credentials, policymakers have sought to understand the quality, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness of these programs. A two-part study was designed to explore these questions.
Very little is known about what resources are required to operate high-quality Out-of-School Time (OST) programs. The purpose of this study is to develop timely and relevant estimates of OST program costs and the funding necessary to support high-quality OST programs. AIR will use state-of-the-field methods for determining education program ...
This online training curriculum series is designed to guide school systems and community partnerships in establishing a strategic financing process to secure resources necessary to sustain comprehensive school mental health programs.
Career and technical education (CTE) continues to gain traction with state and national policymakers, researchers, and educators across the country—evidenced by the creation of a federally funded center investigating CTE programs: the Career and Technical Education Research Network. AIR is leading this research network partnership under the direction of principal ...
AIR will lead a federally funded network designed to increase the evidence base on career and technical education (CTE) programs. The Career and Technical Education Research Network is funded through the Institute of Education Sciences, with the goals of sharing information, building new knowledge, and assisting leaders and practitioners in ...
AIR and the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform (CJJR) at Georgetown University are partnering to offer the first School-Justice Partnerships Certificate Program: Fostering Success for Youth at Risk. AIR experts will serve as faculty along with CJJR instructors. The program will prepare school and district staff, law enforcement, juvenile justice ...
The purpose of this project is to plan, research, design, and execute the annual Indicators of School Crime and Safety, a flagship report co-sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.