Since 2021, AIR has supported the Illinois Workforce Innovation Board’s (IWIB) efforts to champion equity within the Illinois workforce system and ensure that all customers are on pathways to success. AIR served as the lead facilitator for the IWIB’s Equity Task Force in 2021 and 2022; this work culminated in ...
Gretchen Sullivan is a senior technical assistance consultant in the Workforce Program Area at AIR. She has over 20 years of experience in the public workforce development system, spanning work at the federal, state, and regional/local levels. In her role at AIR, she works closely with state and regional/local clients, ...
Decades of research show that whole child approaches to learning, which emphasize a positive school climate; an integrated approach to social, emotional, and academic learning; and wraparound services are essential to students' academic and life success and can reduce the negative effects of poverty on achievement. Speakers at this briefing ...
AIR is strengthening its efforts to diversify the fields of behavioral and social science research through a partnership with three large universities across the country. The AIR Pipeline Partnership Program seeks to address a persistent lack of racial and ethnic diversity in the BSSR fields and ensure that individuals from ...
This spotlight takes a look at the history of Title I, how the program has changed over time, and how it affects children, schools, families and education policy. Experts weigh in on the program's past and future in interviews, briefs, and blogs.
In early warning systems, educators systematically identify students who show signs of being at risk for dropping out of school. This video series, a collaborative effort by the Great Lakes Comprehensive Center and the Michigan Department of Education, covers the process of installing the Early Warning Intervention and Monitoring System ...
States with Race to the Top (RTT) grants from a $4.35 billion Obama Administration initiative enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 used more of the RTT-promoted policies and practices designed to improve K-12 student achievement, according to a new report by Mathematica Policy Research, ...