AIR, as a partner in the California Comprehensive Center at WestEd, worked with the K-12 Innovation and Improvement Office (formerly the Middle Grades Improvement Office) at the California Department of Education to conduct a study on student transitions from the middle grades to high school.
With support from the AIR Equity Initiative, AIR’s PROMISE Center is partnering with Year Up to expand its nationwide program to develop essential career readiness and business skills, build foundational technical capabilities, and complete an immersive, work-based learning experience with a leading employer partner. In this Q&A, Christina Curnow, managing ...
Opinions on how to address sexual health issues are diverse, reflecting the wide-ranging values of individuals and groups seeking solutions. AIR worked closely with CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention to develop and test a new evidence-based communication framework for sexual health. ...
States, districts, and schools use research-based indicators to identify students at risk of failing to meet key educational milestones such as reading at grade level, on-time graduation, or college readiness and college persistence. By identifying students early, educators can target interventions and supports to help students to achieve readiness and ...
The Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA) program is designed to help unemployment insurance claimants return to work more quickly. AIR, in partnership with Actus Policy Research, is working with two states—North Carolina and Wisconsin—to design and execute rigorous evaluations of their RESEA programs. ...
Experts from AIR will present at several sessions during the annual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management research conference. AIR experts will discuss a variety of topics in the areas of education and workforce development, including educator licensing and deployment; transitions to careers among low-income youth; the impacts of ...
Since 2008, AIR has been a pro bono investment partner with Say Yes to Education, a national nonprofit organization committed to dramatically increasing high school and college graduation rates for our nation’s inner-city youth. AIR has produced three papers that look at districtwide education reform in Syracuse. ...
The Plan, Do, Study, Act Process is central to the improvement of instructional routines. Watch one of the Better Math Teaching Network members in real time and in a real classroom setting introduce the Plan, Do, Study, Act, or PDSA, process.
As ambulatory surgery becomes a more common alternative to inpatient hospitalization, this study identifies the realm of risk factors associated with surgical site infections at ambulatory surgery centers; and recommends interventions to reduce the likelihood of such infections due the most common risk factors: Infection control practices and communications ...