LEAPS III was the third phase of a project supported by the USDA in Laos which focused on providing nutritious school meals and improving children's health. AIR conducted evaluations of the project to assess student learning outcomes, nutrition status, health and sanitation behaviors, and teaching practices. ...
Organizations are moving to skills-based practices to broaden the talent pool and address shifts in work design fueled by the digital transformation. This more nimble practice raises the question, “How do we validate the skills a person has to make hiring, promotion, development, and compensation decisions and produce the targeted ...
Findings from this brief suggest that steps by Medicare to relax prescribing requirements during the pandemic, such as allowing early refills and larger quantities of medication, likely helped maintain medication adherence for high blood pressure and prevent racial and ethnic disparities in adherence from worsening. ...
Increasing access to education in prison is a critical policy goal for enhancing equity and workforce development. AIR is conducting case studies of six distance and correspondence-based Prison Education Programs to examine implementation and outcomes relative to standards of quality and equity, with particular attention to programmatic and instructional practices. ...
Black and Latino individuals are arrested, detained, convicted, and incarcerated at significantly higher rates than their White and Asian counterparts for similar crimes. And within consistent police encounters, Black and Latino people are more likely to experience force. The Institute for American Police Reform (IAPR) offers a promising framework for ...
Although youth incarceration rates have declined in the past 20 years, African American and Latino young people still experience disproportionately high rates of detainment and incarceration nationally and within San Francisco. San Francisco’s Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (DCYF) is committed to meeting the needs of the city’s ...
Over-policing practices contribute to racial disparities in arrest and detainment and can escalate violence and trauma to those arrested, their family members, and their communities. To reduce over-policing and its disproportionate impacts on individuals of color and their communities, policymakers are increasingly embedding community voice into the policing and justice ...
In the wake of the pandemic, there is an urgent need to address national disruptions in student achievement and help educators boost student engagement, particularly among those who struggled prior to the pandemic. The PreK–12 Research on Education Strategies to Advance Recovery and Turnaround (RESTART) Network is part of a ...
Explore MOSAIC's interactive data tools, including evidence gap maps, box plots, and traditional forest plots to interpret and translate meta-analytic findings.
