The initiatives to enhance adult learning program accountability and assessment systems of the following states are described in this paper: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Oregon, Texas, Washington, West Virginia.
The purpose of this review was to identify key findings from research regarding mathematics and science educational reform that could inform Microsoft’s philanthropic investments as well as the reform agendas of other school districts.
The Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform (CEEDAR) Center’s primary objective is to partner with states to provide opportunities to learn for teachers and leaders.
This report compares three mathematics assessments conducted in 2003, and aims to provide information useful for interpreting and comparing results from the three assessments, based on an in-depth look at the content of the frameworks and items.
With funding from the Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy and Learning (TCALL) and the Texas Workforce Commission, AIR developed the Texas Leadership Excellence Academy (LEA) to help adult education administrators and instructional leaders more effectively lead themselves, their teams, and their organizations resulting in increased student outcomes and ...
The coronavirus pandemic of 2020 exposed additional costs as the virus claimed more lives among those with certain underlying conditions—such as obesity and diabetes—and disrupted the American economy to a grave extent. AIR worked with CDC and the Office of the Surgeon General to produce the Surgeon General’s Report, Community ...
Experts from IMPAQ, an affiliate of AIR will present during several sessions at AcademyHealth’s 2021 Virtual Health Datapalooza and National Health Policy Conference, February 16-18, 2021. AcademyHealth is a leading national organization serving the fields of health services and policy research and the professionals who produce and use it. ...
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) has met and exceeded the first year targets for the two Commitments to Action that were made at the 2008 annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). AIR was part of three commitments, which included joining forces with Deworm the World to help ...
The state of Nevada has put into place a system of adult basic education that addresses the needs of its adult learners. To support the education programs that serve adult learners, in 2017 the Nevada Department of Education enlisted AIR to manage and run its statewide system of adult education ...
For more than four decades, the National Assessment of Educational Progress has provided the best available information about the academic achievement and educational progress of the nation’s students. The influence of the Common Core State Standards on instruction suggest the need to examine the alignment between the content covered by ...