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Needs Assessment │ Center for Early Learning Systems

Assessing access to early care and education is a key first step in any policy improvement initiative. In part because of the diverse delivery system for early childhood programs in the U.S., there is no single source of data on the availability of programs much less on the enrollment in those programs. In an effort to address this challenge, for more than a decade AIR has been analyzing data from diverse sources on the supply of public and private programs for children ages birth to 5 in the state of California, and taking into account the various population factors that might affect the demand or need for these programs.
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Early Childhood and Child Development
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Planning, Budgeting, and Finance │ Center for Early Learning Systems

Developing a rationale and approach for expanding access to preschool or other early care and education(ECE) programs is an important part of the planning process. AIR offers tools for planning and budgeting for quality preschool initiatives on a “system-wide” basis, such as within a state, county, city, or one or more school districts. AIR also offers information on finance options and a number of other resources and tools for download.
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School Finance, Early Childhood and Child Development
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Evaluation │ Center for Early Learning Systems

AIR evaluates early care and education programs and policies at the federal, state and local level. AIR evaluations help identify best practices and lead to recommendations for improving program quality and outcomes, with an eye toward system-wide implementation.
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Early Childhood and Child Development
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Client Services: Data Analytics at AIR

Data analytics explores traditional and non-traditional data sources to illuminate properties, patterns, trends, and relationships. We discover meaning and value in data to solve complex research questions, support evidence-based decision-making, and understand observable behavior and social action systems. At AIR we use data analytics to improve people’s lives.
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Workforce, Education, Health, International
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EdSurvey: Installation and Use

EdSurvey is an R statistical package developed by AIR commissioned by the National Center for Educational Assessment (NCES). EdSurvey is tailored to the processing and analysis of NCES large-scale education data with appropriate procedures.

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Education, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
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ESSA │Resource Archive

Archive for AIR ESSA resources.
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Education, Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
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Quality Standards: Plan │ Building Quality in Afterschool

Effective and thoughtful planning is the first step in developing afterschool quality standards. In this phase, you will build a strong case for establishing quality standards.

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Education, Afterschool and Expanded Learning
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Quality Standards: Design│ Building Quality in Afterschool

After completing a thorough planning process, your network should have a diverse group of afterschool stakeholders who believe in the importance of a shared definition of quality and are ready to work together to design quality standards.

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Education, Afterschool and Expanded Learning
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Quality Standards: Refine│ Building Quality in Afterschool

Your state has successfully designed a set of quality standards for the afterschool field, and practitioners are now using the standards across the state to improve their program practices. But are you really done? As the field advances, you may need to adapt the standards or add new components for shifting content or practice priorities.
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Education, Afterschool and Expanded Learning
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Quality Standards: Disseminate│ Building Quality in Afterschool

At this stage in the quality standards development process, you have brought together a collaborative group of stakeholders to research and design a set of afterschool quality standards, and you have successfully navigated the approval process in your state.

Topic: 
Education, Afterschool and Expanded Learning