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 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.

AIR's work with host-country partners often centers on important questions and emerging issues. Examples include:

• How can reform programs be designed to ensure that the people most affected by reform are involved in designing and implementing the reform?
• How can information about education indicators, policies, and practices be disseminated and incorporated into reform efforts to make the most impact in a country?
• What changes in curriculum and teacher training will most effectively promote education for marginalized populations – girls, disabled, indigenous language groups, child laborers, etc.?
• What interventions most effectively mitigate the devastating effects of catastrophic illnesses such as malaria and HIV/AIDS on the teaching population and school-going children?
• What effects do changes in teaching and learning practices have on knowledge acquisition and learning outcomes?

AIR has worked to address similar questions and issues throughout the world, with considerable experience in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. At the same time, we continue to provide the U.S. Department of Education with comparative international analysis of education systems, collaborating with members of international groups.