Principals are second only to classroom teachers when it comes to impact on student learning. The George W. Bush Institute and AIR collaborated on a two-year study that looks at effective ways to evaluate principal preparation and describe policies to get, support, and keep great principals.
Join the American Institutes for Research for a webinar discussion on cultural competency through the lens of the Native worldview. Presenters will share perspectives of Native life experiences in the United States—past, present, and future.
Experts from AIR will present several posters about their health research work at the upcoming Academy Health 2024 Annual Research Meeting, June 30-July 2 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore. AIR is a Bronze sponsor of this year’s meeting, which carries the theme, “Valuable Evidence. Vibrant Community. Vital Conversations.” ...
The National Center for Healthy Safe Children offers resources, training, and technical assistance to support states, tribes, territories, and local communities as they promote overall wellbeing for students and their families.
Effective education technology is more than just dropping off the right equipment. In this blog post, Tracy Gray talks about the importance of leadership, infrastructure, and training in using technology in the classroom to transform student learning.
In this brief, AIR researchers offer a potential pathway to understanding how learning and development happen in quality afterschool and summer programs. This pathway emphasizes three key competencies—relationship skills, a sense of agency, and identity development—that research suggests can facilitate learning and development in other areas. ...
The Center for Economic Evaluation is committed to rigorous and transparent economic analyses that generate evidence-based insights for more efficient and equitable systems, policies, and practices.
Have you ever wondered what social and emotional skills look like in practice? If so, watch this whiteboard animation that follows a student throughout her day and ways in which she applies her social and emotional skills.
More than 20 policy experts from AIR will present at the annual conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management from November 12-14 in Miami at the Hyatt Regency Miami Hotel. The conference’s theme, “The Golden Age of Evidence-Based Policy,” is grounded in federal efforts to capitalize on ...
AIR staff helped create Keep the Beat™ Recipes: Deliciously Healthy Family Meals, an exciting new cookbook from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) featuring 40 kid-tested recipes that parents and children can enjoy together as well as time-saving tips and helpful resources for busy families. ...