After test scores on a state language arts assessment at P.S. 52 Sheepshead Bay School in Brooklyn were unsatisfactory, the school's principal searched for a way to improve academic outcomes for his students. Partnering with AIR, the school used response to intervention, a research-based framework that uses data-based decision-making and ...
This five-year resource center is a partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to extend the reach of existing NSF investments and build career opportunities related to fundamental STEM education research.
The Tribal Defending Childhood Initiative supports four federally recognized tribes—the White Earth Nation (Minnesota); the Winnebago Tribe (Nebraska); the Northern Arapahoe Tribe (Wyoming); and the Southern Ute Tribe (Colorado)—as they develop or continue developing trauma-informed practices and procedures across juvenile justice and related child-serving systems. ...
An AIR study of the efficacy of using online course material to recover Algebra I credit after failing the course found that students using this method had lower pass rates and lower scores on an end-of-course assessment than students assigned to a traditional face-to-face classroom. The study is the first ...
The Simulated Instruction in Mathematics Study is a pilot study of a new professional development program which leverages new technologies for virtual classroom simulation and tests its use in professional development to support strong instructional practice in middle school mathematics.
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.
A key component of the Chicago Public Schools' Community Schools Initiative is ensuring that the needs of the school community are identified, and that high-quality programming and services are provided that address these needs, particularly the academic, social, and emotional needs of students enrolled in Initiative schools. In 2011, CPS ...
On October 4, 2012, the Family Court of the District of Columbia held its 11th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference. This year’s topic focused on ways that professionals in the juvenile justice system can provide supports that are culturally appropriate and inclusive of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth and their ...
School districts around the country are increasingly looking to community schools as models to both respond to ongoing youth and family needs made more poignant by the COVID-19 pandemic and as a platform for providing opportunities for positive youth development that accelerate equitable student outcomes in education, health, and employment. ...
Although youth incarceration rates have declined in the past 20 years, African American and Latinx young people still experience disproportionately high rates of detainment and incarceration nationally and within San Francisco. San Francisco’s Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (DCYF) is committed to meeting the needs of the city’s ...