Many students around the world grow up and go to school in multilingual environments, yet there isn’t enough evidence about how to effectively promote reading acquisition in linguistically diverse contexts. The Facilitating Reading Acquisition in Multilingual Environments (FRAME) study addresses this gap by examining the predictors of biliteracy acquisition in ...
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 ...
Dean Gerdeman is a vice president at AIR, where he leads projects designed to build rigorous and applicable evidence for addressing problems in education. His experience includes leading and supporting high-profile and complex lines of work, experimental and quasi-experimental research, and researcher-practitioner partnerships. As director of the $38 million REL ...
The aim of the GOAL Plus project was to build on the success of the previous GOAL project to improve primary school girls’ retention, attendance, and enrollment in 60 schools in Bong, Lofa, and Grand Bassa counties. This final report shows that GOAL Plus was largely successful in meeting its ...
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.
Head Start, a leader for 50 years in preparing children from low income families for kindergarten and beyond, is about to undergo its first comprehensive overhaul since 1975. In this blog post, AIR's Yoni Farber talks about the importance of the change from intermittent workshops to intensive professional development for ...
Principal observation tools are used to accurately evaluate principal performance by helping principal supervisors and coaches improve instructional leadership. This piece describes how using the right tools is helping principals in the U.S. Virgin Islands develop such evidence-based coaching and performance evaluations. ...
The National Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Neglected or Delinquent Children and Youth served as a national resource center to provide direct assistance to states, schools, communities, and parents seeking information on the education of children and youth who are considered neglected, delinquent, or at risk. ...
Yinmei Wan is a senior researcher at AIR. She has expertise in designing and implementing rigorous educational research and evaluation projects. Dr. Wan has played integral roles in various research projects around educator quality. She works on the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Midwest team and leads the research effort for ...
State and federal governments have invested heavily in expanding, and improving the quality of early childhood education programs. AIR led a study to investigate the impact of the HighScope Preschool Curriculum on children’s learning and development and classroom quality.