The U.S. has more guns and more homicide deaths per capita than any other nation in the world. In this video interview, Patricia Campie, AIR principal researcher, talks about what everyone can do to prevent gun violence.
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.
AIR created the Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice to bridge the gap between the body of research on improving services for children with emotional and behavioral problems, and the actual practice of serving them.
But implementing Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) can be challenging and there is limited research on how to measure and improve implementation. AIR has been awarded a federal grant to develop and test the Integrated MTSS Fidelity Rubric, a system that will provide useful data on MTSS implementation and will ...
On July 30, 2015 AIR hosted an event examining the ways economic inequality can constrain young children’s learning opportunities. Guest presenter C. Cybele Raver will review the neuroscience of early socioemotional development in the context of toxic stress.
Established by AIR nearly 20 years ago, the Center for Special Education Finance (CSEF) has assisted the federal government and many states in measuring special education costs and expenditures and in formulating fiscal policy.
Experts from AIR will present and discuss their latest research and best practices in preventing youth violence, reducing dating violence and creating behavior change though digital communications at the 143rd Annual Meeting & Exposition of the American Public Health Association, to be held October 31 to November 4 at McCormick ...
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) has issued a policy brief summarizing the findings of its research on structuring instructional resources and practices for full-day kindergarten programs to increase children's reading achievement and better prepare them for first grade.
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction contracted with AIR to provide a comprehensive evaluation of its Culturally Responsive Education for All: Training and Enhancement (CREATE) initiative during its first three years of implementation. AIR employed a qualitative case study design to assess program implementation and to determine the effect participation in ...
This presentation was given by AIR staff to stakeholders in Oakland in 2016. It describes a strategy for city leaders and stakeholders to expand access to quality programs to 3- and 4-year-olds in the city, identifying the areas of highest need.