For 75 years, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) has been working to improve lives by connecting research and practice, and championing the use of evidence to create a better, more equitable world. Our new logo and brand are a visual representation of our ongoing commitment to work with clients ...
More than 40 percent of the 1.8 million adults served by the national adult education program are English language learners (ELLs). Often, these learners begin with English as a second language classes and then transition to adult basic or adult secondary programming to further their academic skills. In 2008–2011, AIR ...
This spotlight takes a look at the history of Title I, how the program has changed over time, and how it affects children, schools, families and education policy. Experts weigh in on the program's past and future in interviews, briefs, and blogs.
Systems can work together to align their actions and decisionmaking. One way is through shared measurement: using a common set of measurable goals that reflect shared priorities across systems and with community members. With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, AIR explored how shared measurement helps systems and communities ...
The progress of new programs is often measured by how well they are being executed. This approach tends to ignore a critical actor—the person charged with implementing the innovation. The Stages of Concern process helps keep the people doing the work at the center of the change process.
Dr. Manuel Pastor, a professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and an expert on immigrant integration and the social conditions facing low-income urban communities, has been unanimously elected to the Board of Directors of the American Institutes for Research (AIR), one of the world's ...
This research brief explores the research and practice evidence on strategies intended to support opportunity youth and identifies a researcher-practitioner learning agenda to support opportunity youth on a path to thriving.
In 2014, the Equity Project at AIR hosted its first Research Roundtable. There, some of the nation’s top educational researchers drafted a research agenda addressing some of the long-term challenges facing American public schools educating students from low-income and minority families. Leaving micro-reforms to others, we asked tough questions that ...
AIR, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, is seeking qualified entities to provide training and implementation support for high school programs to help prepare youth with disabilities to achieve success after completing high school. The selected provider(s) will participate in a large-scale evaluation project conducted by ...