Terris Ross leads the AIR Equity Initiative’s education portfolio, with an emphasis on improving opportunities for communities segregated by race and place. In this Q&A, she discusses her career in education equity.
AIR is pleased to announce that Dr. Diane August, an education expert with extensive background in the development of language and literacy in second-language learners, is joining AIR as a managing researcher and will guide the organization's English Language Learners (ELLs) efforts.
The question of whether single-sex schooling is preferable to coeducation for some or all students continues to be hotly debated. This paper evaluates several hypothetical reasons why one has been proposed to be more beneficial than the other.
While there are well-established links in the literature on domestic violence and homelessness, integration of the two systems in policy and practice is still emerging. This toolkit was created to address the gap between domestic violence and homeless service systems.
Hundreds of thousands of veterans return from conflict having experienced trauma; many struggle with PTSD and some are at risk for homelessness. We can serve veterans better by developing the best trauma-informed care practices, engaging families, and making the physical and mental well-being of service men and women a priority. ...
AIR partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to write, design, and publish the first comprehensive government manual on best practices in crisis and emergency risk communication.
American education is undergoing considerable change from improvements in information technology to increased efforts to tie teacher performance to student achievement. This thought paper proposes steps to embrace that change, primarily through fundamentally reconsidering the teacher’s role in education. ...
The initiatives to enhance adult learning program accountability and assessment systems of the following states are described in this paper: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Oregon, Texas, Washington, West Virginia.
Stockton’s strategies are typical of California districts that were most successful in pushing up their graduation rates over that period, according to a new study by researchers at AIR and the California Dropout Research Project. The study’s authors identified the ten districts in California with the largest increases in high ...