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David Myers, President and CEO of the American Institutes for Research, sent a message to AIR staff on Jan. 6, ...
Conducting research and providing technical assistance in developing countries has long been challenging and unpredictable. Here, experts from AIR and ...
Educators have faced numerous obstacles to meaningfully engaging students during the global coronavirus pandemic. Initially, these were practical, including providing ...
This commentary by Amanda Latimore appeared in the Baltimore Sun on December 4, 2020. "With most states now much higher ...
With COVID-19 still affecting in-person education across the country, early childhood educators have had to find new ways to give ...
In a study for the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences, AIR evaluated the effects of an adaptive text ...
The Readiness Projects—a partnership of the Forum for Youth Investment, the National Urban League, and AIR—advances work informed by science ...
AIR believes that personalized learning efforts must have critical foundational elements, build in the relevant essential hallmarks, and opportunities to ...
The COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented school closures throughout the United States, prompting educators to search for ways to meet the ...
Rural school districts, educators, and students have different experiences than their urban and suburban counterparts. The Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) ...
Countries such as Bangladesh and Mozambique have made universal access to pre-primary education a priority in recent years. Other countries ...
Longstanding systemic health and social inequities have put Americans categorized as racial and ethnic minorities at greater risk of getting ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented American families with extraordinary challenges. Alarming rates of anxiety and depression symptoms are among the ...
The 2018 Indicators of School Crime and Safety reports that 20 percent of students ages 12-18 reported being bullied at ...
As the COVID-19 pandemic turns into a longer-term crisis with no end in sight, planning for the fall raises even ...
Often, strategies to provide equal access to technology and the internet involve simply providing people with devices. AIR's Trent Sharp ...
Despite uncertainty about the start of the 2020-2021 school year, one thing is clear: Learning will take multiple forms and ...
Accurately measuring school climate helps schools identify areas of improvement and choose evidence-based interventions for effecting positive change. Read what ...
As the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged teachers to shift instruction to distance learning platforms, it also has exposed the need ...
Lynn Holdheide, managing technical assistance consultant at AIR, and senior advisor and former director for the Center on Great Teachers ...