The U.S. Department of Education has invested substantial funds in turning around the nation’s lowest performing schools and has contracted with AIR to examine how schools’ receiving federal school improvement grants (SIGs) are changing over time.
Throughout the State of the Union address last night, there was a renewed emphasis on the link between career success and education—from Pre-K through college. This blog post highlights AIR's work in many of the areas highlighted by the President.
AIR's Center for Early Learning Systems offers practical tools, resources, and methodologies to assist with planning, implementing, and evaluating preschool and other school readiness programs.
AIR recently reviewed the approved Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) flexibility plans to identify policies and practices relevant to English learners, provided considerations based on our knowledge of research for the implementation of proposed reforms and described exemplary state and district practices. ...
The Reauthorizing ESEA Pocket Guides are written by AIR experts to assist policymakers and educators as they consider changes to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).
To improve services to students and families, we need information on what districts and charter management organizations are doing and plan to do to address COVID-19. From mid-May through July 2020, we are asking school district and charter management organization leaders to respond to a nationally representative survey of school ...
AIR has released an updated consumer guide rating the effectiveness and quality of 22 widely used comprehensive elementary school reform models. The new report, issued one year after the first guide was released, upgrades the ratings of two models to "moderate" on evidence of success in demonstrating positive effects on ...
Eighth-grade students who are "algebra ready" and take an online Algebra I course because their schools do not offer the class, outperform their peers in algebra knowledge and are twice as likely to take advanced mathematics classes in high school. The findings are in a rigorous new federally funded study ...
Every April marks Second Chance Month, an opportunity to recognize why reentry is important for individuals and communities. Learn how AIR is supporting the field of reentry and ensuring that all individuals have an opportunity at a second chance.
Over 60% of children from birth to age 5 in the state of California are dual language learners (DLLs). The First 5 California-funded Dual Language Learner Pilot Study seeks to identify the range and distribution of learning experiences for DLLs in California and to better understand how these experiences are ...