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

Adult Education & Literacy Children's Mental Health District Consulting Education Evidence & Indicators Early Childhood Education Finance Education Technology Higher Education School Reform Special Education

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

Communications & Social Marketing Research & Policy Analysis Conference Services, Technical Writing & Clearinghouse/Call Center Management Technical Assistance & Training Informatics, Web Site Development & Information Management

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

State Student Testing Computer Statistical Services

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.

Equity Analysis Organizational Performance Skills Assessment Team Performance Usability Engineering

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

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AIR staff members help to address many our nation’s most pressing school reform and improvement issues through research, evaluation, and technical assistance. Our projects support the effective implementation and study the positive impact of federal, state, and local school reform programs, policies, and initiatives.

The range of topics we address includes:

• Accountability
• Education Technology
• High School Transformation
• Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act
• Professional Development and Teacher Quality
• Reading , Mathematics and Science Instruction
• Standards-based Reform
• State and District Systemic Reform

People

Dan Aladjem, Principal Research Analyst Bea Birman, Managing Research Scientist George Bohrnstedt, Senior Vice President for Research Bruce Christenson, Principal Research Scientist Steve Fleischman, Vice President Mike Garet, Managing Research Scientist Tracy Gray, Managing Director Rita Kirshstein, Managing Research Analyst Kerstin Le Floch, Senior Research Analyst Meredith Ludwig, Principal Research Analyst Jennifer O’Day, Managing Research Scientist Tom Parrish, Managing Research Scientist Darren Woodruff, Principal Research Analyst

Recent Projects & Clients

 

National School District and Network Grants Program (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
Proposition 227: Impact on The Education of English Learners, K-12 (California Department of Education)
Reading First State Monitoring (U.S. Department of Education)

 

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Publications & Products

 

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