The First 5 LA Family Literacy Initiative is a comprehensive program to promote language and literacy development, parenting knowledge and skills, and economic self-sufficiency among low-income families in Los Angeles County. Findings from the eight-year evaluation of this Family Literacy Initiative have shown significant growth in language and literacy skills ...
AIR's research on disability and employment not only highlights workplace challenges that adults with disabilities and employers face, but seeks to offer solutions. Michelle Yin provides an overview of AIR's work on this topic.
Join AIR on Thursday, October 12 from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. ET for a discussion where AIR and external experts will explore linkages between socioeconomic indicators and climate change vulnerability.
Sudhanshu ‘Ashu’ Handa, a distinguished expert on poverty, health, and human development in sub-Saharan Africa, has joined AIR as an Institute Fellow. Handa is AIR’s first full-time, internationally based Fellow, working out of the Institute’s office in Nairobi, Kenya.
The Plan, Do, Study, Act Process is central to the improvement of instructional routines. Watch one of the Better Math Teaching Network members in real time and in a real classroom setting introduce the Plan, Do, Study, Act, or PDSA, process.
Since 2006, AIR has been working with the Microsoft Corporation and Puget Sound Educational Services District (PSESD) to improve instruction and increase rigor in middle school math throughout eight school districts in Washington.
With transitional kindergarten now fully implemented in California, AIR has published a new report examining program features, including teacher qualifications, classroom structure and instructional content.
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 ...
The Integrated Multi-Tiered Systems of Support Fidelity Rubric (IMFR) is a tool to assess an elementary school’s implementation of Integrated Multi-tiered Systems of Support (I-MTSS). I-MTSS is a model where academic and social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) supports are strategically combined to improve student academic (e.g., reading and/or math) and ...
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the long-time barometer of the nation's academic achievement. In this video interview, Fran Stancavage, AIR managing researcher, talks about the relationship between NAEP and the Common Core State Standards and the challenges of measuring academic progress over time as instruction changes. ...