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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 ...
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 ...
Ashu Handa is an economist whose work centers on global poverty, health, and human development in sub-Saharan Africa. At AIR, ...
In this Q&A, Juanita Hicks, senior researcher at AIR and a contributor to the Center for Process Data, explains what ...
The AIR Equity Initiative is investing its time, expertise, and financial resources into reimagining policing and public safety in the ...
In this blog post, AIR TA Consultants Erin Cyman and Amy Beller discuss apprenticeships as a potential solution for the ...
The start of the 2022-23 school year marked the beginning of the expansion of California’s transitional kindergarten (TK) program, which ...
In a longitudinal, quasi-experimental study that spanned more than a decade, AIR found that attending a high school with an ...
Many policymakers believe that AP courses could potentially promote educational equity and greater readiness for college and career, particularly among ...
The National Center for Education Statistics annual report, Condition of Education, provides insight into how the U.S. education system has ...