The goal of the Gates Foundation-funded Grand Challenge was to encourage new promising ideas to accelerate student learning toward mastery of Algebra I by the end of 9th grade. AIR served as a learning partner for both the foundation and grantees.
Rural schools face persistent challenges such as low student engagement, educator burnout, and growing mental health concerns. AIR worked with a Wisconsin regional educational service agency to evaluate their LIFToFFS model, which aims to increase K–12 educator capacity to facilitate personalized, competency-based educational opportunities and support students' development of durable ...
From 2022 to 2025, AIR supported NCES with planning, review, and publication tasks for the National Teacher and Principal Survey to ensure the collection and production of high-quality, timely data on the characteristics and experiences of K–12 educators.
To understand what students know and can do, we need assessments and surveys that meet professional standards for measurement quality. Conducting studies to gather this evidence often requires collecting large numbers of student responses, which can be complex, time consuming, and costly. AIR will study when AI-generated data can replace ...
AIR is seeking to build teachers’ capacity to use AI responsibly and effectively. We are working with public schools to learn how teachers are using AI now and to test training modules that help teachers build their AI skills.
For more than 20 years, the School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS) provided reliable nationally representative data to guide decisions that shape safer schools across the U.S. AIR played a pivotal role in every SSOCS administration since its inception, providing support throughout the survey process. ...
The Teaching the Skills That Matter in Adult Education (TSTM) project provided tools and training to adult educators to teach transferable skills students need across critical topics.
Since 2024, AIR has partnered with the city of Indianapolis, the Indy Public Safety Foundation, the National Institute of Criminal Justice Reform, and local community partners to deepen our understanding of credible messengering through the city’s Gun Violence Reduction Strategy.
Computer science education in public schools is the most effective way to cultivate necessary technology-based knowledge and skills in a systematic and widespread way. The Center for Evolving Computer Science Education at AIR aims to improve access to computer science education by building and using evidence. ...
This AIR study examines California’s community college system and presents an innovative approach to estimating the cost of giving every student an equal chance to learn.
