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  • Generating Evidence to Advance Equity | The AIR Equity Initiative

    AIR has a long tradition of generating evidence to understand and address social and economic inequities. Yet critical gaps remain in the evidence base. The AIR Equity Initiative will continue to identify and invest in research that centers on equity and holds promise for informing ways to improve opportunities and ...

  • Investing in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | The AIR Equity Initiative

    AIR understands that diversity and inclusion are fundamental to reducing inequity. Building upon the organization’s commitment to this work, the AIR Equity Initiative invests in institutional and individual capacity to build diverse and inclusive ways to generate and use evidence about equity.

  • Using Evidence for Equity | The AIR Equity Initiative

    The AIR Equity Initiative will build the connective tissue between evidence and its use and help promote better outcomes. Investments will facilitate seamless transitions between the scholastic and the practical, and aid the development of structures, tools, and processes that support the use of evidence in policy and program implementation. ...
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    AIR 2019 Highlights: Advancing Equity Through Evidence

    Equity is at the heart of AIR’s mission and work. In 2019, AIR’s experts contributed evidence and insights in support of equal access to a good education, quality health care services, and robust opportunities in the workforce. Learn how AIR’s mission-focused work in research, evaluation, and technical assistance is improving ...

  • New Look, Enduring Commitment: Advancing Evidence, Improving Lives for 75 Years

    For 75 years, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) has been working to improve lives by connecting research and practice, and championing the use of evidence to create a better, more equitable world. Our new logo and brand are a visual representation of our ongoing commitment to work with clients ...

  • Taking a Page from Education to Improve Healthcare

    Education has borrowed many ideas from the medical field. Now a new initiative shows the exchange isn’t just a one-way street. Bookmarking, a widely-used method for establishing student proficiency levels in major education tests—such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress—is being adapted to healthcare so patients and their families ...

  • Improving Lives Through Evidence-Based Approaches

    Addressing persistent challenges in education, health care, and workforce requires evidence-backed approaches. For nearly 75 years, AIR has researched key issues and offered insight into the effectiveness of many strategies. Read our policy primer to explore our body of evidence covering issues such as COVID-19, early childhood, school climate, the ...

  • Improving Lives Through Cash Transfers

    Cash transfer programs, growing around the globe since the mid-1990s, are a cost-effective way to improve the lives of poor households across many domains. Explore our work on cash transfers, programs that address poor households’ severe budget constraints and many investment needs ranging across education, health, household, and business. ...

  • The AIR Equity Initiative

    The AIR Equity Initiative supports mission-driven approaches that public agencies, foundations, or other donors are unlikely to fund. Funded projects will catalyze new ways of working—leveraging AIR’s research, evaluation, and technical assistance expertise with education, workforce, and health leaders, practitioners, community experts, and policymakers to reexamine and address longstanding inequities. AIR's ...

  • Substance Abuse Youth Topic Page on Youth.gov

    AIR's Substance Abuse Youth topic page on Youth.gov provides information and resources for youth-serving agencies. The new topic provides information and resources focused on substance abuse prevalence, risk and protective factors, warning signs, screening assessments, and prevention and treatment.