Several national organizations have offered frameworks and resources for planning for the reopening school buildings closed due to COVID-19. Policymakers and practitioners will need a shared understanding of the common whole child terms and phrases as they plan and work to mobilize student supports. This resource provides definitions for key ...
The COVID-19 crisis has taken a toll on California's early learning and care system, and early learning providers need more support. In order to understand the ways in which programs have adapted, the services they provide, and the challenges they are facing, AIR and Early Edge California collected data from ...
Since 2007, the MTSS Center has been a national leader in supporting states, districts, and schools across the country in implementing tiered support systems that address students’ academic, behavioral, social, and emotional needs.
The Discovery Research PreK-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of STEM by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of STEM education innovations and approaches. This project aims to deepen NSF and STEM community understanding of recent intellectual contributions and the broader impact of grants ...
The Conditional Cash Transfer Program Avancemos Program was developed by the Government of Costa Rica to combat the rising problem of drop-out and abandonment in secondary school. An evaluation was conducted of the program, designed to provide monetary compensation to beneficiary households with the requirement that their students regularly attend ...
In recognition of Veterans Day, AIR’s Andrew Blank, a U.S. Navy veteran, discusses his military service, his transition to public health, and his commitment to veteran's issues.
Through Pakistan Data and Research for Education (DARE), AIR has two contracts from the World Bank – funded by the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office – to provide technical assistance on large-scale student assessments at the national and provincial levels in Pakistan.
The eSchool 360 model implemented by Impact Network represents a promising approach to improving educational outcomes in Zambia by incorporating three potentially high-impact components that could create important synergies. This report presents the midline results of the cluster-randomized controlled trial used to determine the impact of the model. ...
Christina Yancey is vice president of workforce development within AIR’s Human Services Division. A nationally recognized workforce policy and program evaluation expert, Dr. Yancey champions the use of rigorous mixed methods to build and apply new knowledge. She has extensive expertise building institutional capacity for data use, while promoting innovation, ...
The need for safety, support, and trusting, reciprocal relationships is especially important as we work to rebuild and return stronger than before COVID-19. This resource describes the role that afterschool and summer programs and systems can play and offers strategies for afterschool and summer programs and school leaders to work ...