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Teach For America (TFA) is a nationwide program dedicated to recruiting, selecting, and training new leaders to teach in high-need schools. AIR conducted a meta-analysis that synthesized the effects of 23 rigorous research studies spanning 24 years that examined the effects of TFA teachers on student achievement. ...

In 2012–13, Newark Public Schools ratified a new teacher contract, the main goal of which is to implement a high-quality measure of teaching effectiveness and use it to support and manage teachers in ways that improve student outcomes. An evaluation of the contract and associated initiatives found that teachers and ...

Three United Nations agencies teamed up to provide multi-faceted support to vulnerable populations in the North Kivu and South Kivu provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo through their Joint Resilience Programme (JRP). AIR evaluated the project through a mixed-methods approach combining surveys of farming households with interviews and focus ...

The GTL Center at AIR supported the Regional Education Laboratory (REL) Midwest and Lansing Public Schools in developing an action plan for reducing teacher shortages within the district.