In this brief, AIR researchers offer a potential pathway to understanding how learning and development happen in quality afterschool and summer programs. This pathway emphasizes three key competencies—relationship skills, a sense of agency, and identity development—that research suggests can facilitate learning and development in other areas. ...
Despite its benefits in preventing opioid overdoses, stigma and fear have prevented naloxone from being more widely distributed, and the drug is in short supply in the U.S. The time is right to think about how we can strengthen distribution of this necessary medication, and this piece describes a few ...
Experts from AIR will present at several sessions during the 2021 Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) conference, being held virtually September 26-29, 2021. AIR is a platinum sponsor of the conference. The theme of the conference is “The Fierce Urgency of Knowledge: Education Evidence for Reimagining and Reckoning.” ...
This research-and-development partnership, led by AIR, focuses on an innovative program for K-12 teacher professional development. With support from a federal Education and Innovation Research grant, AIR is helped two organizations at the forefront of K-12 teacher professional development develop, refine, and test the Professional Learning With Impact program. ...
Terris Ross is managing director of the AIR Opportunity Fund. In this role, Dr. Ross will refine the long-term, substantive agenda of the Opportunity Fund’s work in education. She will provide intellectual and technical leadership to improve educational and economic opportunity, with deep appreciation for the challenges faced by communities ...
This report provides a broad overview of state efforts, as of the 2011-12 school year, to monitor equitable access to qualified and effective teachers among schools; develop and adopt multiple measures of teacher performance to rate teachers among at least three performance levels; and implement targeted strategies for promoting equitable ...
This webinar will include two studies that demonstrate costs of scaled-up livelihoods and health interventions, delivered through women’s group programming. The session will specifically explore economies of scale and cost-effectiveness of a Self-Help Group program in India.
Supported by the AIR Opportunity Fund, the Pipeline Partnership Program (P3) is a career development initiative designed to prepare graduate students for successful careers in behavioral and social science research.
The TSTM-SkillBlox project provides digital resources to educators to sustain and scale their use of the Teaching Skills That Matter initiative, which helps with foundational skills instruction for adult learners.
Over a million adults participate in programs each year that are designed to improve their literacy, English proficiency, and other foundational skills that will prepare them for further education and rewarding jobs. The Collaborative Research for Educating Adults with Technology Enhancements (CREATE Adult Skills Network) is designed to facilitate the ...
