The need to serve English language learners (ELLs) has never been more pressing. The Supporting English Language Learners guide, developed by the Center for English Language Learners at AIR, is designed for state and district leaders who play a key role in ensuring that all students—including ELLs—graduate from high school ...
A growing number of school districts are using early warning systems in their strategy for improving rates of student on-time graduation. The study used student-level data and a five-step process to identify the most accurate indicators of students’ failure to graduate from high school on time.
As part of recent reforms, states and districts are designing new approaches to holding schools and districts accountable for moving their students closer to achieving state standards in key academic domains. AIR and its partners contracted with the California Department of Education to conduct an independent evaluation of the Immediate ...
In the March 2021 report to the Congress, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommended that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services continue to cover telehealth services after the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE). This would allow for a study focused on the effects of telehealth ...
As a part of the Striving Readers program supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Milwaukee Public Schools implemented the Read 180 program in five schools in an effort to provide targeted literacy supports to struggling students. This evaluation update details the results of the evaluation, which show that the ...
The National High School Center, a project of the American Institutes for Research (AIR), will host a Webinar Thursday, May 14, 2009 on “Effectively Educating English Language Learners at the High School Level: What Research and Practice Tell Us.”
A recent special issue in the Journal of Drug and Alcohol Dependence highlights findings from three decades of research on the Good Behavior Game and its impact on a variety of long term behavioral and mental health outcomes.
The Common Core State Standards represent an exciting step forward for California and for the nation as a whole in supporting strong instruction that can better prepare students for college and career success. As educators embrace the challenges associated with assessment of the Common Core, it is instructive to learn ...
This report outlines a number of critical issues that should be addressed in order to allow states to explore and understand relationships between the performance of English language learning students on NAEP and on state assessments in this policy context.
Babies born prematurely are a growing public health problem with significant consequences for families and an estimated cost to society of at least $26 billion each year. The Strong Start for Mothers and Newborns initiative tested and evaluated enhanced prenatal care interventions for women at risk for preterm birth. The ...