The AIR Equity Initiative is investing its time, expertise, and financial resources into reimagining policing and public safety in the United States. In this blog post, Senior Program Officer Shakira Munden describes our how these AIR-funded grants will help shape a new vision of justice.
Staff from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will discuss school research and its application during the Association for Education Finance and Policy's 37th Annual Conference, to be held March 15-17, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency Boston in Boston, MA.
AIR and Turnaround for Children have authored two white papers to support districts who are applying for the Race to the Top – District (RTTD) competition. The two white papers provide guidelines for establishing foundational conditions as outlined by RTTD and for using a specific set of metrics to measure ...
How does the civil rights movement of the 1960s continue to shape all aspects of society, including educational opportunities and outcomes for children? In November 2018, a group of AIR staff had the opportunity to better understand this legacy by participating in a civil rights learning journey across the South. ...
AIR education finance experts will present on a variety of topics at the 47th annual Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) conference, March 17-19 at the Hilton Denver City Center in Denver, Co. This year’s conference theme is “Assessing the Responses of Education Finance and Policy to the Dual ...
Caitlin Dawkins, a principal technical assistance consultant at AIR, helped to develop the concept of Second Chance Month, with colleagues at Prison Fellowship. In this Q&A, Dawkins explains why successful reentry is hard to measure and dispels some misconceptions around reentry.
Dr. David Osher, a vice president at the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and an expert on issues involving children's social and emotional development and learning, will be the featured speaker on October 18 at the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education (DLC) in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada as ...
The State Support Network was a technical assistance initiative of the U.S. Department of Education, Office of State Support, operated from 2016 to 2020 and designed to support state and district school improvement efforts.
Rebecca Herman and Dawn Dolby, school turnaround experts with AIR, will be featured speakers at a forum June 28, 2011 at the U.S. Capitol that focuses on the role of school districts in providing necessary support for turning around chronically low-performing schools.
AIR developed a systematic, transparent, evidence-based protocol to review and translate the extant research about juvenile drug courts and related interventions into comprehensive, reasonable, actionable, understandable, and measurable guidelines.