This spotlight takes a look at the history of Title I, how the program has changed over time, and how it affects children, schools, families and education policy. Experts weigh in on the program's past and future in interviews, briefs, and blogs.
Female entrepreneurs tend to have lower levels of education, less access to relevant business information, and face higher childcare and household demands, restricting their ability to attend traditional training and networking activities. The Innovations in Financing Women Entrepreneurs project seeks to pilot, scale up, and evaluate new approaches to empowering Ethiopia’s ...
In partnership with the Population Council and Stanford University, AIR is conducting a systematic review to synthesize findings from experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations and linked process evaluations or qualitative research to examine the theories of change, enablers and barriers associated with achieving health outcomes through women’s groups that integrate economic ...
Findings by experts for the American Institutes for Research is serving as the basis for information being used by leaders and the public in New York as they address the issue of adequate state funding for public school children.
Karen Francis is a vice president and the Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer at AIR. Dr. Francis leads AIR’s overall DEI efforts through the implementation of the DEI framework and strategic pillars focused on workforce and work environment; cultural and linguistic competence; identity, brand, and thematic research; and growth ...
After five years of effort, states have implemented most of the test-based accountability requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and now must focus their efforts on improving poor-performing schools that ...
On October 26, 2023 AIR hosted a webinar exploring innovative and effective approaches to addressing women’s issues in forced displacement settings. A panel of experts from AIR, academia, and NGOs presented various programmatic models and policy approaches and engage in a crucial discussion about emerging topics and continued challenges. ...
The IKEA Foundation-funded Sustainable Market Inclusive Livelihood Pathways to Self-Reliance (SMILES) program aims to address rural refugee livelihood challenges in Uganda with a goal of graduating 16,000 extremely poor refugee and Ugandan households in Kikuube and Kyegegwa districts from conditions of food insecurity and fragile livelihoods into self-reliance and resilience. ...
Ellen Cushing is a principal TA consultant and policy analyst with more than 13 years of experience supporting systems change at the national, state, and local levels on education reforms, including college and career readiness, educator evaluation, and educator talent management. She is the deputy director for the Region 1 ...
Some of the nation’s lowest-performing schools implementing a school intervention model funded by a School Improvement Grant (SIG) used more practices intended to improve student achievement than similar schools that didn’t implement a SIG-funded model. However, there was no evidence that SIG directly led to greater use of practices or ...