This spotlight takes a look at the history of Title I, how the program has changed over time, and how it affects children, schools, families and education policy. Experts weigh in on the program's past and future in interviews, briefs, and blogs.
Through Full-Service Community Schools, students, their families, and the local community can receive academic, social, and health services, which can contribute to better educational outcomes for students. Starting in 2021, AIR will conduct an evaluation of the implementation of the FSCS initiative focusing on understanding implementation of the initiative and ...
AIR developed the Massachusetts Early Warning Indicators System (EWIS) for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE) which identifies students who are at-risk of not meeting key benchmarks (e.g., reading by the end of third grade, graduating from high school) along a student's educational trajectory. In 2012 every ...
Charrise Hollingsworth is a researcher at AIR, where she evaluates programs and initiatives related to thriving youth and adults. Her growing body of work focuses on youth workforce development, advancing equitable outcomes in K-12 education, promoting socioemotional wellness for students and teachers, and supporting AIR’s cross-disciplinary place-based initiatives. A former ...
Experts from AIR and IMPAQ will present at several sessions during the annual Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) research conference, being held virtually November 11-13, 2020. Staff will contribute to 21 live sessions on a variety of conference tracks, including Health; Education; Natural Resource, Energy and Environmental ...
Dia Jackson supports states, school districts, and educators with multi-tiered systems of support and special education best practices. In this Q&A she talks about how she uses evidence to help teachers understand student needs and why it's important to study education and equity in tandem.
Left untreated, chronic kidney disease can progress to kidney failure, known as end-stage renal disease. AIR works to address the disparities in care and the high cost of caring for patients with ESRD.
In our May 2016 blog, Have You Met Carl Perkins, Chaney Mosley offered five changes to the Perkins Act that Congress might consider, in light of his years of CTE teaching and administration. In this blog post, Mosley addresses those changes based on the new bill and raises a few ...
As a counterpoint to the increasingly common media reports on school boards that highlight dysfunction and disruption, this report profiles two California school districts—Napa Valley and San José Unified School Districts—that have collaborative and productive approaches to governance.
The Institute for African-American Mentoring in Computing Sciences serves as a national resource for all African-American computer science students and faculty. AIR serves as a research partner of the IAAMCS BPC-AE Alliance, collecting and analyzing original quantitative and qualitative data to address the program’s research goals and characterize the state ...