The Snapshot explores challenges facing transitional housing programs serving survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and examines underlying issues, contributing factors, and diverse approaches taken to address those challenges.
While there are many interventions aimed at boosting young children’s language and literacy skills, there are fewer aimed at improving math learning for young children, and even fewer that target children younger than preschool or kindergarten age. AIR and its partners developed the Math4Littles program to help parents and caregivers ...
Rebecca Zumeta Edmonds is a managing researcher at the AIR in Washington, DC, where she serves as the co-director of the National Center on Intensive Intervention, and as project director for an Investing in Innovation and Improvement (i3) Development Grant. She previously coordinated services for the Response to Intervention Center ...
Samuel E DeWitt is a senior researcher at AIR. Previously, he spent 7 years as a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s (UNC Charlotte) Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology. During his time at UNC Charlotte, Dr. DeWitt served as a co-PI for a National Institute ...
Alka Arora is a senior researcher at AIR with more than 15 years of experience in large-scale comparative studies of educational achievement. In her current position, she provides technical and psychometric support for the development of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) across all NAEP subjects. Additionally, she provides content ...
Experts from AIR will be featured prominently at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, being held April 5-9, 2019 in Toronto, Canada. AIR is the platinum sponsor for the event. Built around the theme “Leveraging Education Research in a 'Post-Truth' Era: Multimodal Narratives to Democratize Evidence,” the ...
The Guide for Reflecting on Instructional Depth, or GRID, helps teachers reflect on their instruction, identify areas where they can be more student-centered. The four-part video GRID series provides step-by-step guidance for determining students’ depth of mathematical justifications and who is driving those justifications. ...
The Every Student Succeeds Act shifts accountability for English learners from Title III to Title I—so now the law will hold schools, not just districts, accountable for educating English learners. School systems in six states plus the District of Columbia have a 10 percent or higher English-learner population, and the ...
Contributing and working alongside Native Nations, AIR has a deep commitment to engaging communities, fostering shared vision and values, building capacity, and developing strategic alliances to achieve sustainable systems change in Indian Country.
In 2013, the State of Indiana addressed prison overcrowding by adopting legislation providing alternative sentencing for lower-level nonviolent felonies, and increasing the proportion of offenders under correctional supervision in the community. The new law allows many sentences to be fully suspended, but is tougher on violent offenses by increasing the ...