To become successful adults in a global 21st century, children and adolescents need a broad range of experiences to build their knowledge of the world and understand their place in it. AIR and the Asia Society offer a set of strategies and tools to help school leaders use the framework ...
To increase uptake of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality evidence reviews, AIR is working with a panel of 11 diverse learning health systems (LHS) to develop products and tools to help make these comprehensive evidence reviews more accessible to LHS executives and clinicians, with the goal of timely integration ...
The American Institutes for Research is hosting a two-day TeamSTEPPS Collaborative Conference on team training in health care on May 1-2, 2007 at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. The conference brings together early adopters of the TeamSTEPPS training program to create partnerships that will promote research and develop team training ...
Recent events such as those in Oklahoma, Boston, and Texas can leave people—especially children—feeling sad, angry, out of control, overwhelmed, and unsafe. The National Center on Family Homelessness developed a resource, Understanding Traumatic Stress in Children, to help.
The AIR Center for Addiction Research and Effective Solutions (AIR CARES) is offering a webinar series featuring experts in the addiction field and focusing on specific social determinants of health and their relationship to substance use disorder and overdose.
In this blog post, Peter Cookson discusses the problems faced in Newark, New Jersey when they attempted school reform, and suggests a smoother route by using principles such as listening to the community and developing a shared vision.
The Center on Aging at AIR held a kick-off conference, which focused on how researchers can engage in the policymaking process, and encouraged participants to think creatively, constructively, and in concert. Themes discussed were the challenges faced by lower-income workers and the importance of Medicare to seniors. ...
Many performance-based compensation systems use standardized test scores to calculate student growth, but for teachers of nontested grades and subjects (those without standardized assessments), alternative approaches may be needed. This report discusses different performance-based compensation structures that include teachers of nontested grades and subjects and explores different options for measuring ...
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.
What impact do Teach for America (TFA) members have on other teachers' performance? A strategy to "cluster" TFA members in high-need schools contributed to large gains in math achievement, but was found to have little effect on reading skills and no spillover effect on other teachers.