The 2018 Indicators of School Crime and Safety reports that 20 percent of students ages 12-18 reported being bullied at school during the 2017 school year. As more is being learned about the negative psychological and physical effects of bullying, researchers are focusing on how to address the problem. The ...
The National Center for Healthy Safe Children offers resources, training, and technical assistance to support states, tribes, territories, and local communities as they promote overall wellbeing for students and their families.
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) has been named an Apprenticeship Ambassador by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to help promote and support Registered Apprenticeship opportunities across the nation. (Read the DOL press release)AIR is part of the second cohort of ambassadors and joins 300 other organizations that are ...
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 First 1000 Most Critical Days program was designed to provide women in Zambia with a host of maternal and infant health supports. In this Q&A, Hannah Ring provides insight into how the program worked and the challenges of bundling multiple interventions.
AIR has worked with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development (EOLWD) to create an Apprenticeship Career Pathways Framework and related resources to provide important support to expand Registered Apprenticeship, pre-apprenticeship, and other work-based learning models as central strategies in the state’s education and workforce development efforts. ...
In their new book, “Making College Work: Pathways to Success for Disadvantaged Students,” Harry J. Holzer and Sandy Baum discuss ways in which education researchers and policymakers can work to ensure more successful outcomes for students from disadvantaged backgrounds who attend college. The book addresses key issues that students from ...