Despite its benefits in preventing opioid overdoses, stigma and fear have prevented naloxone from being more widely distributed, and the drug is in short supply in the U.S. The time is right to think about how we can strengthen distribution of this necessary medication, and this piece describes a few ...
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 ...
Researchers from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) are making numerous presentations at the 2008 conference of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) being held April 3-5, 2008, at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
The 114th Congress needs to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act—but this time, no silver bullets or artificial deadlines. As Sara Wraight argues in this blog post, real education reform will take many years, and it’s time to go long.
Students in low-performing schools in Massachusetts that received state School Redesign Grants demonstrated greater academic improvement in English language arts and mathematics than students in comparison public schools, according to a new study by AIR. A companion implementation study, using qualitative data from current and past SRG recipient schools, offers ...
The PROMISE Center, Promoting Resilience, Opportunity, and Mobility in Support of Equity, is committed to uncovering the most effective strategies to build a 21st century workforce development ecosystem that helps all people succeed and thrive.
Social science research targets interdisciplinary problems. Integration of data from a broad array of sources can illuminate important relationships across these issues. Our record linkage approach leverages emerging computational techniques for data integration and is especially useful when primary identifiers are not available or shared across data sources. ...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) investment in the World Modelers program created the opportunity to develop sophisticated, near real time, integrated modeling infrastructure to help policy makers quickly respond to or prevent humanitarian disasters.
Community Leaders in Health Equity (CLHE) was a community-based leadership program funded by The Colorado Trust and designed specifically to develop health equity leaders around the state. Out of a desire to continue supporting CLHE participants and nurturing their leadership skills, The Colorado Trust and Transformative Alliances developed the CLHE ...
Parents, teachers, schools, districts, states, and especially students all want schools that prepare graduates to thrive in the 21st century. In this blog post, Anne Mishkind asks what it means to be "college and career ready."