Provides services and technical assistance for students so they benefit from research-based curricula taught in safe environments.

Produces and disseminates information to provide motivation and tools to enable individuals to make informed decisions about health issues.

Develops and implements education testing programs that benefit students, parents and public officals.

Works with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the government's primary source for collecting and analyzing data about public education.

Helps to provide all children with access to a quality education, and empowers people, organizations, and communities to bring about social change.

Is committed to helping clients improve the effectiveness of their workforce through a wide range of management, organizational, and business improvement efforts.

Produces, maintains and disseminates systematic reviews of the effects of social and behavioral interventions.

Here are examples of the questions we help clients answer:

• How can the impact of Head Start programs be measured?
• What training and technical assistance strategies — and follow-up measures — will best help family literacy grantees to continually improve?
• How can states use results-based accountability systems to monitor child development programs?
• How can preschool learning and development guidelines be adapted for family child care?
• What strategies might more effectively involve parents as partners in the variety of activities offered by child development programs?

In support of efforts to address these and other key issues, AIR conducts early childhood and child development research in the Washington, D.C. and Palo Alto, California offices.

Studies have included evaluation of programs and policies, cost analysis, development of performance standards and measures, and training and technical assistance.

Projects have addressed areas such as early intervention; child health; child support enforcement; service integration; and program implementation, data management, and monitoring.