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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National

• National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study Program Expenditure Component

• Study of Education Resources and Federal Funding (SERFF) and the Targeting and Resource Allocation Component of the National Longitudinal Study of No Child Left Behind, funded by the Program Planning and Evaluation Services of the U.S. Education Department

 

State-Level

• Determining the Cost of Providing All Children in New York an Adequate Education, funded by the Atlantic Philanthropies, The Ford Foundation and The Bill and Melinda GATES Foundation New York Adequacy Report (Vol. 1)
  Detailed Appendices (Vol. 2)

• California Study of Incidence of Disabilities, California Department of Education

• Policies, Procedures, and Practices Affecting the Education of Children Residing in Group Homes, California Department of Education

 

District-Level

• Alaska School District Cost Study. The purpose of this study is to develop an improved methodology for measuring differences in the cost of school resources across geographic locations within Alaska. State policy makers in Alaska have long recognized the importance of adjusting state education aid for geographic cost differences and, for the past five years, have utilized a cost adjustment index derived from a study conducted by the McDowell Group (1998). The present study is intended to develop a geographic cost of education index (GCEI) that will replace the existing cost adjustment and provide a more sophisticated approach to measuring cost differences. The application of such geographic cost adjustments in state aid is intended to equalize the purchasing power of the educational dollar across local school districts.

  The costs of four major categories of school inputs are analyzed as part of this study:

  • personnel services
  • energy services
  • supplies, materials, and small capital items
  • travel

  The AIR research team collaborated closely with a group of eight school business officers representing a diverse sample of districts from across Alaska. These eight school business officers formed a Technical Working Group that provided feedback on components of the methodology for this analysis, assistance in the design of data collection instruments, and support in data collection efforts. Final Report;
  Technical Report

 

Special Education

• The Special Education Expenditure Project (SEEP)/Center for Special Education Finance (CSEF), Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education. For more information, go to http://csef.air.org/

• Individual state Special Education Expenditure Projects for the departments of education in Alabama, Delaware, Indiana, Kansas, Ohio, Missouri, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Wyoming. To view the individual state reports, go to http://www.csef-air.org/pub_seep_state.php

• Special Education finance projects for Georgia, Kentucky, and Massachusetts.