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Explore our blog posts, expert interviews, and spotlights related to education, health, human services, international development, and the workforce.
Founded to actively mobilize the international community and to promote literacy as an instrument to empower individuals, communities, and societies, ...
In this blog post, AIR Senior TA Consultant Abby Bandurraga describes how connecting apprenticeship professionals and supporting them in their ...
In this blog post, Principal Researcher Lyzz Davis talks about the work of AIR's Evidence Support Center and its companion ...
Infusing more technology and innovation to boost progress in education research and development may mean creating a new National Center ...
Pooja Reddy Nakamura has experience overseeing a portfolio of projects on foundational learning in over 20 countries. She focuses on ...
With support from the AIR Opportunity Fund, AIR’s PROMISE Center is partnering with Year Up to expand its nationwide program ...
For the past decade, AIR has partnered with more than a dozen SEAs to support the review, revision, and implementation ...
Kam Williams and Dominique Bradley met when Dominique co-taught a class offered as part of AIR’s Pipeline Partnership Program, which ...
In this Q&A, AIR’s Beth Ratway, principal technical assistance consultant, and Stefanie Wager, senior technical assistance consultant, discuss why standards ...
AIR is working to launch and sustain strong sector partnerships and innovative sector strategies that meet workforce needs across industries.
Brandy Farrar uses mixed methods to identify evidence-based best practices for health care policies and services. As a trained sociologist, ...
Raising awareness and increasing the understanding of mental health can change the way society views and responds to this complex ...
Caitlin Dawkins, a principal technical assistance consultant at AIR, helped to develop the concept of Second Chance Month, with colleagues ...
Program reviews can help district leaders learn which areas of a program are working well and what needs improvement. AIR’s ...
By strengthening the skills, such as communication, collaboration, and problem-solving, that youth need for academic success, well-being, and career opportunities, ...
Displaced workers may need different kinds of supports than workers who become unemployed for other reasons. In this blog post, ...
Education and training have long been considered routes to economic security. But millions of people can’t access postsecondary education or ...
U.S. businesses are facing challenges filling so-called “middle-skills” jobs in trades, telecommunications, health care, IT, and similar professions. Career and ...
Jessica Heppen joined AIR in 2004 as a social scientist and program evaluator and is a nationally recognized expert in ...
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) benchmarks educational progress of students across the U.S. In this Q&A, Markus Broer ...