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.
Reading Apprenticeship is a professional learning program for middle and high school teachers to help students be successful readers in content areas. AIR, as a sub to WestEd, and funded by U.S. Department of Education, is implementing an impact and implementation evaluation of a SEED grant over the course of ...
The Enhanced Reading Opportunities (ERO) study is a demonstration and rigorous evaluation of two supplemental literacy programs that aim to improve the reading comprehension skills and school performance of struggling ninth grade readers.
Title I, Part D of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act allocates funds to states and school districts to improve educational services for neglected and delinquent youth. This study, prepared by AIR for the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, was designed to better ...
IMPAQ conducted randomized controlled trial (RCT) impact evaluations to examine the effects of interventions aimed at combating child labor in Costa Rica, Ecuador, India, Malawi, and Rwanda. (IMPAQ was acquired by AIR in 2020.)
The 2014 Attorney General’s Advisory Committee report on American Indian/Alaska Native Children Exposed to Violence proclaimed the need for a re-imagined and re-created tribal juvenile justice system focused on prevention, treatment, and healing. AIR and its partners seek to serve and support the vision of promoting the health and well-being ...
Improving the quality of instruction through the development of content standards is a critical step in developing effective curriculum and meaningful assessment to enhance student learning. In adult education, many programs do not use standards to guide their programs. The Adult Education Standards and Assessment Warehouse initiative was created in ...
The growing frequency of weather shocks like hurricanes and droughts, as well as other extreme events, is increasingly and disproportionately impacting vulnerable households in low- and middle-income countries that lack sufficient safety nets for when calamities occur. In recent years, Malawi has experienced multiple adverse events. To increase the understanding ...
Empowering youth to address structural barriers to adolescent health and well-being within schools and communities is an important part of realizing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) vision. Schools and communities are stronger when youth develop essential life skills, work together, ...
UNICEF Kenya contracted AIR to conduct a mixed-methods formative evaluation of the Nutritional Improvements through Cash and Health Education program, part of Kenya’s initiative to enhance access to social and economic inclusion services within safety nets for poor and vulnerable households.