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Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are bringing about a paradigm shift in what it means to be a reader, and in how education systems must be restructured to support children’s acquisition of comprehension and critical reading skills. AIR is providing the Ministry of Education in each country with a set of measurable, ...
This series of modules Using CBM in a Response to Intervention Framework, provides information about how student progress monitoring, specifically Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM), can be used to determine a student’s response to an intervention.
In 2016, the Office of Correctional Education in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation embarked on a process of implementing professional learning communities (PLCs) in all 35 California state prisons. AIR provided professional development and consulting on the PLC process.
The Center on Advancing Measurement and Assessment + experts use well-established approaches to measurement and assessment from a broad range of projects across AIR’s Human Services and Health divisions.
William Kamkwamba was able to bring free electricity to his village in Malawi by building a windmill that was based on information from a donated book sent to a local library by the Malawi Teacher Training Activity (MTTA), a program funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and ...
The Southeast Comprehensive Center assisted the Georgia Department of Education through technical expertise and support to the Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education staff in the implementation of career pathways. Also, SECC and the College & Career Readiness & Success Center supported the implementation of employability skills and quality work-based learning ...
Educational attainment is negatively related to unemployment and to working part time involuntarily. The National Center for Education Statistics released a new Data Point report entitled Relationship Between Educational Attainment and Labor Underutilization. This report examines the relationship between educational attainment and the rates at which adults are unemployed or ...
American Institutes for Research (AIR) recently received two prestigious awards for excellence in Communications and Social Marketing. An upbeat music CD produced to encourage physical activity among Hispanic populations at risk for developing Type 2 Diabetes received the Communicator Awards top honor, the Crystal Award of Excellence. Performed by a ...
AIR will lead and participate in several presentations at the 2022 Council for Exceptional Children’s Convention & Expo, one of the nation’s largest gatherings of special education researchers, policymakers and practitioners. AIR’s presentations will cover a wide array of topics including investigating interventions for students with emotional disturbance; trends in ...