Contributing and working alongside Native Nations, AIR has a deep commitment to engaging communities, fostering shared vision and values, building capacity, and developing strategic alliances to achieve sustainable systems change in Indian Country.
October 2013 is Connected Educator Month, a celebration of online communities of practice and networks in education. During this month, educators will be able to participate in online activities designed to improve teacher and leader effectiveness and enhance student learning. More than 240 free events have ...
The COVID-19 and Equity in Education: Longitudinal Deep Dive project in creating an in-depth view of how states, districts, and their communities—especially those with higher percentages of Black and Latino students and students experiencing poverty—responded to the pandemic's effect on K-12 learning opportunities. ...
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.
A major theme addressed by President Obama is improving low-income students’ access to the nation’s most prestigious campuses. This goal is wrapped in “undermatching”—the idea that low-income students are not applying to the more selective colleges they could attend. But, as this blog post explains, perhaps the more important goal ...
Two experts from AIR are being recognized by their peers for their excellence in and contributions to education research. Michael Garet and David Osher have been selected as American Educational Research Association (AERA) Fellows, joining 22 other scholars and experts from around the country to receive this honor. ...
This study addresses a significant shortcoming in the delivery of behavioral health services to children, namely, the large socio-economic and ethnic disparities between children who utilize services and those children who do not utilize services.
The federal Race to the Top competition provided significant impetus for states to adopt “value-added” models as a part of their teacher evaluation systems. This study examines how teacher evaluations are affected by incorrectly attributing changes in student's test scores to the value-added of teachers in spring classrooms, and explores ...
An American Institutes for Research (AIR) study looking at Zambia’s cash transfer program has been selected by UNICEF as one of the best research studies of 2014. AIR principal researcher David Seidenfeld was the lead co-author of Zambia’s Child Grant Program: 24-Month Impact Report.
AIR is a key member of the Education Statistics Services Institute Network, a network of companies that provide the National Center for Education Statistics with expert advice and technical assistance. AIR contributes expertise to NCES’ national and international activities in statistical methodology research, analysis and reporting, survey ...