In this essay, Matthew Patrick Shaw, an assistant professor of law and public policy and education at Vanderbilt University, weighs in on the implications of the June 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision on affirmative action and how higher education might move forward.
These teaching ideas are instructional routines teachers can implement in their classrooms to help students become more deeply and actively engaged in understanding algebra. The ideas focus on how teachers can help students better engage, defined as making deep mathematical connections, justifying and critiquing mathematical thinking, and solving challenging problems ...
Many researchers and policymakers consider teachers the number one factor affecting student achievement. Yet teacher professional development programs that prove effective are rare. Efforts are needed to develop, refine, test, and scale-up professional development programs. AIR has been researching teacher professional development programs to help teachers with general and content-area ...
In this essay, Natasha Warikoo, Lenore Stern Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the Department of Sociology at Tufts University, weighs in on the implications of the June 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision on affirmative action and how higher education might move forward.
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.
The Plan, Do, Study, Act Process is central to the improvement of instructional routines. Watch one of the Better Math Teaching Network members in real time and in a real classroom setting introduce the Plan, Do, Study, Act, or PDSA, process.