Provides research, evaluation, consulting, and technical assistance services that contribute to the lifelong process of learning and improving personal performance.

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

Develops new and innovative ways to measure student achievement and provide customized tools to improve student learning.

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.

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

• Research and Evaluation. AIR works with districts, states, the federal government, foundations, and other clients to carefully frame meaningful research and evaluation questions, judiciously apply a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to determine the impact and significance of improvement initiatives, and produce reports that can be used to inform policy and practice.
• Policy Implementation Monitoring. AIR provides services to monitor the local, state, and national implementation of state and federal policy initiatives aimed at significantly enhancing student outcomes, and offers guidance that helps to improve ongoing and future policy and practice.
• Technical Assistance. AIR creates and maintains a variety of national technical assistance and resource centers that help educators and policymakers identify, select, and implement effective practices, programs, and policies to help all students achieve at higher levels.