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  • The American Institutes for Research Issues Updated Rating of 22 Widely Used Comprehensive School Reform Models

    24 Dec 2013
    AIR has released an updated consumer guide rating the effectiveness and quality of 22 widely used comprehensive elementary school reform models. The new report, issued one year after the first guide was released, upgrades the ratings of two models to "moderate" on evidence of success in demonstrating positive effects on ...
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    PatentsView: Patent Data Exploration Platform

    The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) mission is to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in the U.S., and this is supported by its open-data platform. Part of that platform, PatentsView, offers 40 years’ worth of information about investors, their organizations, and their locations. Established in 2012 and led by AIR, ...

  • The Workforce Development and Economic Mobility/Prosperity Working Group at AIR

    Disruptive shifts, such as technology and automation, have affected the stability of the U.S. workforce in recent years, and the COVID-19 pandemic has put even greater pressures on the economy, displacing many workers. At the same time, many employers are finding it more difficult to hire workers with the skills ...

  • Resources and Tools for Programs │ Building Quality in Afterschool

    We share a wide variety of tools and resources to help you build, sustain, and expand quality afterschool systems in your state. The tools and resources include formalized systems for assessment against a quality framework, research-to-practice briefs on quality programming, tools for program staff to apply best practices in their ...
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    First 5 California Dual Language Learner Pilot Study

    Over 60% of children from birth to age 5 in the state of California are dual language learners (DLLs). The First 5 California-funded Dual Language Learner Pilot Study seeks to identify the range and distribution of learning experiences for DLLs in California and to better understand how these experiences are ...

  • National Research Collaborative on Postsecondary Competency-Based Education

    The National Research Collaborative on Postsecondary Competency-Based Education and Learning is a community of researchers dedicated to building evidence in support of postsecondary competency-based education and learning. Our priority areas of inquiry are centered on building foundational knowledge for the field, supporting a better understanding of the CBE and CBL ...
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    Adult Education Research and Technical Assistance Center (AERTAC)

    The Adult Education Research and Technical Assistance Center (AERTAC) at AIR conducts research and provides technical assistance to states and local programs to improve the adult education system.

  • AIR Offers a First-Ever Review of the Quality of Seven Widely Used Education Service Providers

    24 Dec 2013
    The American Institutes for Research (AIR) is releasing a first-ever scientifically based review providing comparative ratings on the effectiveness and quality of seven widely adopted education service providers that generally serve low-performing schools in low income areas.
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    Build Trust and Justice Locally: Lessons from Ferguson on Communities and Police

    25 Nov 2014
    The Justice Department's civil rights probe of Ferguson, Missouri's police force again rivets attention to one more American community whose police officers have lost residents' trust. Whatever the findings, experience and research suggest that five moves made now could help build trust and restore justice between police and communities they ...
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    The Leaky Pipeline: Why Don't New Teachers Teach?

    04 Feb 2016
    Between a quarter and a half of those who complete a teacher preparation program don’t end up teaching after graduation. In our latest blog post, AIR’s Jenny DeMonte encourages policymakers to start tracking this data to help address teacher shortages and improve the teacher pipeline.