CBAM is a conceptual framework that provides tools and techniques for facilitating and assessing the implementation of new innovations or reform initiatives. The underlying premise of CBAM is implementing a new initiative requires more than the provision of materials, resources, and training; it requires the understanding that each person involved ...
The Wisconsin Reading Excellence and Demonstration of Success (READS) initiative was launched by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction in 1999–2000 in an effort to positively affect student reading achievement and reduce the number of referrals to special education in READS-funded schools through the implementation of comprehensive reading programs. This ...
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The Salvadoran, Guatemalan, and Honduran economies face multiple labor market barriers, including economic stagnation, labor market inefficiency and segmentation, and gang violence. Through this U.S. Department of Labor-funded project, AIR worked with each country to produce reliable, comprehensive, and high-quality labor market information. ...
Today’s economic climate mandates and rewards cost-effective, performance-driven management. Performance management—a data-driven process to help improve services and outcomes—provides a structure that promotes the development and delivery of high-quality products and services.
Cambium Learning Group, Inc. , a leading provider in education software and portfolio company of Veritas Capital, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of AIR Assessment, the student assessment division of AIR, one of the world’s largest behavioral and social science research organizations. The new business unit brings ...
AIR, one of the world’s oldest and largest behavioral and social science institutions, is announcing two significant changes to its leadership. Jessica Heppen, a researcher and national expert on education policy and practice, is AIR’s new president and CEO. Lawrence D. Bobo, the dean of social science at Harvard University, is ...
This report presents data from the School District Finance Survey for School Year 2004-05 (fiscal year 2005, or FY05). The School District Finance Survey is a district-level survey that consists of data submitted annually to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) by state education agencies (SEAs) in the 50 states and the ...
Little is known about the most effective and accessible ways to engage people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in remote, virtual research. The purpose of this work is to conduct research toward the development of rigorous research methods and approaches that can be used in virtual environments to enable ...