In 2005, AIR was awarded a five-year grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Public Broadcasting System to assist the two organizations in the planning and implementation of the Ready to Learn Outreach Grant. This innovative grant is designed to locate and connect ...
During the 2009-10 school year, the American Institutes for Research and Pivot Learning Partners (PLP) formed a partnership with two large California school districts—Los Angeles and Twin Rivers Unified School Districts—to design a comprehensive approach to local school finance and governance. ...
AIR's Commitment for Quality Education for More Children in Haiti is to improve access to quality education through donor funded activities and to leverage additional resources to maximize the impact of education reform efforts.
AIR was asked to identify measures that would (1) gauge the progress of the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) toward excellence in the well-being of children, adults, and families; (2) function as a “dashboard” for monitoring; and (3) allow stakeholders to gauge the impacts of ...
As part of its Ready To Learn Grant, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting invited AIR’s social marketing team to join forces with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and local PBS stations. AIR used an audience-driven approach to reach out to parents and caregivers to help them improve the reading readiness ...
AIR’s work to increase the transparency of evidence based information for consumers includes creating plain language materials to explain the evidence-based formulary decision process.
The Iowa Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Program Improvement Grant is a partnership of three state departments (Education, Public Health, and Human Rights); national consultants (David Osher, Roger Weissberg, and Gene Hall); and Iowa’s 12 intermediate education agencies.
The National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice is a national center to conduct research, training, technical assistance, advocacy, and dissemination activities to develop more effective responses to the needs of youth with disabilities in the juvenile justice system or those at-risk for involvement with it. ...
The National Adequate Yearly Progress and Identification (NAYPI) database was created by AIR to facilitate analyses for two studies funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Policy and Program Studies Service: the State Study of the Implementation of Accountability and Teacher Quality Under No Child Left Behind (SSI-NCLB) and the ...