More than 20 policy experts from AIR will present at the annual conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management from November 12-14 in Miami at the Hyatt Regency Miami Hotel. The conference’s theme, “The Golden Age of Evidence-Based Policy,” is grounded in federal efforts to capitalize on ...
More than 40 percent of the 1.8 million adults served by the national adult education program are English language learners (ELLs). Often, these learners begin with English as a second language classes and then transition to adult basic or adult secondary programming to further their academic skills. In 2008–2011, AIR ...
Mastering math and the academic language of math is essential for all students, but especially for English Learners, who are acquiring content knowledge and English proficiency concurrently. The goal of The first two years of the study Project MELD was to enable sixth-grade Spanish-speaking ELs to acquire the skills and ...
Project RISE (Realizing Internationals Supports for English Language Learners) aims to improve the educational outcomes of English language learners (ELLs) in Grades 9–12 in two schools identified as persistently low performing by changing teachers’ instructional practices and several key structures in which students and teachers are organized. AIR is providing ...
Jessica Heppen, a nationally recognized expert in education research, policy, and practice, is the president & CEO of AIR. Dr. Heppen been with AIR for 20 years and, in that time, has held several key roles during her tenure.
Although youth incarceration rates have declined in the past 20 years, African American and Latinx young people still experience disproportionately high rates of detainment and incarceration nationally and within San Francisco. San Francisco’s Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (DCYF) is committed to meeting the needs of the city’s ...
With the Affordable Care Act open enrollment period starting in November, a national survey by AIR finds that three out of four Americans are confident they know how to use health insurance, but 42 percent say they are not likely or only somewhat likely to review a plan’s details before ...
Supporting the mission to provide targeted support for English Learmers, the Midwest Comprehensive Center worked with the Minnesota Department of Education on a cultural competency project. The project had two primary goals: 1) Conduct a listening tour of agency staff to inform recommendations on developing cultural competency within MDE so ...
The TELL project is a review of literature and critical annotated bibliography to provide an overview and critique of the research related to the transition of English language learners.
On November 18, 2020 the Center for English Learners at AIR hosted a webinar, Cultivating Oral Language and Literacy Talent in Students, about supporting language and literacy for young dual language learners (DLLs). The webinar presented findings from a recent study focused on supporting preschool DLLs. ...