The Professional Learning Communities Facilitator's Guide is designed to assist teacher teams in applying the evidence-based strategies in the Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School educator's practice guide, produced by the What Works Clearinghouse. ...
Special education experts from AIR will present at the 2017 Council for Exceptional Children annual convention and expo, being held April 19-22 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA.
What we know about how people make decisions can be a powerful tool for rethinking how public programs should work. AIR, as a sub to Mathematica, supported the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) work to explore how insights from behavioral science can be used to improve the ...
For more than 15 years, AIR has led the National Reporting System for Adult Education for the Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE). AIR developed the adult education accountability system—the NRS—and from its inception developed a parallel line of technical assistance activities to ensure its effective implementation and use. ...
Partners United for Supportive Housing Cedar Rapids will work to retain family unity, provide stable housing, and improve family functioning and well-being for children who are in, or at-risk of entering, the child welfare system.
This story map is an overview of the work of the Texas Comprehensive Center, one of 15 regional comprehensive centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education for the October 2012–September 2019 grant cycle of the Comprehensive Centers Program.
With Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funding, AIR is working with the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission to evaluate the effects of the State of Maryland's modified payment structure for acute inpatient stays at non-federal hospitals.
Informing practice with the best research and making research more relevant to practice are easier said than done. Making a tangible difference in people’s lives is harder still. In this series of short commentaries, AIR experts reflect on ways to meet the challenge.
Child welfare systems in the United States are intended to ensure that children are safe, cared for within stable and loving forever families, and able to thrive in childhood and beyond. This work is both complex and critical, and these systems face a number of ongoing challenges. This blog provides ...
AIR experts recently examined a federal approach to address a growing shortage in primary care providers, finding its incentives were not equally effective in increasing provider supply across U.S. counties. They suggest further investigation into a number of factors that may be driving the shortage. ...