Dr. David Osher, a vice president at the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and an expert on issues involving children's social and emotional development and learning, will be the featured speaker on October 18 at the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education (DLC) in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada as ...
AIR developed a systematic, transparent, evidence-based protocol to review and translate the extant research about juvenile drug courts and related interventions into comprehensive, reasonable, actionable, understandable, and measurable guidelines.
AIR and the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform (CJJR) at Georgetown University are partnering to offer the first School-Justice Partnerships Certificate Program: Fostering Success for Youth at Risk. AIR experts will serve as faculty along with CJJR instructors. The program will prepare school and district staff, law enforcement, juvenile justice ...
The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Healthy Students, in collaboration with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, have selected AIR to operate the National Center on Safe, Supportive Learning Environments. This new center will ensure that state education agencies, local education agencies, schools, and colleges ...
Millions of children across the United States benefit from mentoring every year. Selected by the U.S. Library of Congress, AIR conducted a five-year evaluation of mentoring enhancement demonstration programs funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The goal was to assess whether strategic enhancements to the roles ...
Little is known about how the type and length of school suspensions are related to academic and nonacademic outcomes for disciplined students and their peers. AIR worked with the New York City Department of Education to investigate the effects of the type and length of exclusionary disciplinary responses on (a) middle and high ...
Youth violence disrupts communities and businesses, increases health care costs, and decreases property values—not to mention the human impact. The Safe and Successful Youth Initiative (SSYI) in Massachusetts combines health and safety approaches to eliminating serious violence among high-risk, urban youth. Does it work? Three new AIR evaluations, ...
The purpose of this project is to plan, research, design, and execute the annual Indicators of School Crime and Safety, a flagship report co-sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
This online training curriculum series is designed to guide school systems and community partnerships in establishing a strategic financing process to secure resources necessary to sustain comprehensive school mental health programs.