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The Chinle Unified School District faced both leadership challenges and teacher retention problems prior to the 2016-2017 school year. In ...
Successfully navigating work and life requires key skills—and the ability to adapt to a fast-changing, digital world. The go-to source ...
The 2012 Mentoring Enhancement Demonstration program was designed to strengthen existing youth mentoring programs across the United States. In this ...
State and school district leaders, whether relative newcomers to ESSA or entrenched in implementation, will find detailed information on states’ ...
Career and technical education (CTE) continues to gain traction with state and national policymakers, researchers, and educators across the country—evidenced ...
Dr. Deborah Moroney specializes in bridging research and practice, having worked as a staff member for out-of-school programs early in ...
Research tells us that cultivating a culture where students feel safe, engaged, and ready to learn is an important factor ...
The First 1000 Most Critical Days program was designed to provide women in Zambia with a host of maternal and ...
Achieving universal literacy is one of the international community’s most engaging and admirable aspirations. AIR implemented the USAID-funded Teacher Citizen ...
How can research inform and improve literacy in the U.S. and around the world? In honor of International Literacy Day ...
The annual Condition of Education 2018 provides new insight into the costs and availability of child care options. Spotlight author ...
Like many other states, Tennessee is facing an opioid epidemic. As part of their Prevention for States activities, the Tennessee ...
The lack of easy data sharing between K–12 systems and teacher preparation may be costly, in terms of the quality ...
Since 2001, AIR has been working in Zambia, conducting multi-method impact and process evaluations across many sectors such as health, ...
The Minnesota Department of Education is developing several learning goals in the new Social and Emotional Learning Framework. The framework ...
Created in 2010 by the Kindergarten Readiness Act, transitional kindergarten (TK) offers younger children in California additional time to prepare ...
Recent research has demonstrated that when schools and districts focus on social and emotional learning (SEL), students’ academic achievement, prosocial ...
Through the national Comprehensive Centers Program and Regional Education Laboratories, AIR is building states’ capacity to support their districts and ...
Natural disasters such as hurricanes often are not one-time, discrete events but rather, the start of ongoing traumatic stresses. Survivors ...
Decades of research have shown the harmful effects of poverty on student performance. Title I schools in Texas face particular ...