AIR works alongside the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion to support public health professionals, health care providers, and policymakers in adapting and applying dietary and physical activity guidelines in their work.
Battle Creek Public Schools engaged AIR in fall 2017 to conduct an evaluation of a district transformation process, which began with a grant from the W. K. Kellogg foundation. AIR is sharing some findings from the transformation process, the first half of which was pre-pandemic, and the second half ...
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, teachers, principals, and students have had to quickly adjust to distance learning or e-learning. Although data were gathered before the pandemic, the results of the spring 2020 release of Volume 2 of the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) offer insights about teachers and principals ...
The Programme Haitien d'Appui à la Réforme de l'Education (PHARE) in Haiti is a USAID-funded, deliverables-based contract with AIR. PHARE is USAID's response to the Government of Haiti's effort to restore, sustain, and expand education and health services. PHARE's main objective is to reinforce the capacity of the Ministry of ...
The First 1000 Most Critical Days program was designed to provide women in Zambia with a host of maternal and infant health supports. In this Q&A, Hannah Ring provides insight into how the program worked and the challenges of bundling multiple interventions.
In a rare occurrence, PISA, TIMSS, and NAEP assessments are releasing science and math results in the same year. Chances are the results from the various assessments won’t all tell the same story. So what do you need to know to make sense of this bumper crop of assessments? In ...
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a system of international assessments that focuses on 15-year-olds' capabilities in reading literacy, mathematics literacy and science literacy.
The Bridges Collaborative provides a unique opportunity to explore desegregation and integration efforts in diverse contexts and address some of the gaps in the research. Through this work, we sought both to address gaps in the research and to serve the needs and interests of Bridges Collaborative members. ...
Researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and funders are increasingly aware of the powerful potential for summertime experiences and the need to design, implement, and continuously improve summertime experiences for all.
In the wake of the pandemic, there is an urgent need to address national disruptions in student achievement and help educators boost student engagement, particularly among students from marginalized groups and among those who struggled prior to the pandemic. The PreK–12 Research on Education Strategies to Advance Recovery and Turnaround ...