Dr. David Osher, a vice president at AIR and an expert on children's mental health, behavioral and development issues, will join other leading experts on school violence at a news briefing on Capitol Hill on Thursday, April 8, 2010. The briefing is sponsored by the American Educational Research Association and ...
Evidence suggests that increasing young people’s SEL competencies can improve behavioral, academic, and life outcomes, but SEL programs and strategies have been critiqued for failing to attend to contexts of inequity. AIR has brought together a team of experts in SEL, school violence prevention, and research synthesis to understand the ...
Getting a job is about more than academic performance. In this blog post, Kimberly Kendziora discusses the growing body of research on the importance of social and emotional skills, such as self-management, social awareness, and relationship skills.
The science of learning and development (SoLD) is a body of knowledge that describes how people learn and develop. For the SoLD Alliance, AIR has developed a planning tool to assist educators in implementing the Guiding Principles for Equitable Whole Child Design.
AIR developed a systematic, transparent, evidence-based protocol to review and translate the extant research about juvenile drug courts and related interventions into comprehensive, reasonable, actionable, understandable, and measurable guidelines.
Christal Ramos is a managing director in the health division. She has over 16 years of experience implementing and studying policies and interventions to improve health equity, particularly for people with Medicaid or who are uninsured, and for communities of color. She is experienced in leading mixed-methods research, evaluation and ...
Competency-based education is an educational approach that focuses on mastery of an expanded set of competencies—rather than seat time—as a measure of student learning. This brief explores how states and districts can define learner competencies that reflect the full range of knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary for students to achieve ...
More than 12 million people are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. Because they tend to have greater health needs and lower incomes than other Medicare beneficiaries, dually eligible people often experience challenges with care delivery and integration between Medicare and Medicaid. With support from Arnold Ventures, AIR aimed to ...
Between 2018 and 2020—before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic—Burkina Faso experienced multiple shocks, leading to prolonged school absences even after the pandemic ebbed, increasing the risk that youth not attending school could be recruited into violent extremist organizations. AIR is assisting Save the Children in focusing on support for ...
What makes a school a place where Alaskan students want to be and want to do well? Why do students stay in school or drop out? And what do Alaskan students believe that schools can do to help them succeed? Researchers at AIR present the answers, provided directly by students, to these questions.