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    Ensuring High-Quality Education for English Learners

    07 Apr 2016

    Research suggests that English Learners are sometimes placed in classes where they don’t have access to grade-level core content, and that teachers in these classrooms are likely to be less experienced and qualified to support non-native English speakers’ needs. The Education Policy Center at AIR invites you to a discussion ...
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    Internal Connection, External Benefit: Employee Resource Groups Imbue AIR Projects with Diverse Perspectives

    AIR’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion begins from within, and our Employee Resource Groups are an important structure that supports our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion strategy. These voluntary, employee-led groups are based on shared characteristics, interests, or life experiences.

  • What Does ESSA Mean for English Learners and Accountability?

    07 Apr 2016

    The Every Student Succeeds Act shifts accountability for English learners from Title III to Title I—so now the law will hold schools, not just districts, accountable for educating English learners. School systems in six states plus the District of Columbia have a 10 percent or higher English-learner population, and the ...

  • Principals Went Through a Lot in the Last Two Years. Here’s What They Want to Hang Onto

    Education Week
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    Discovering How to Effectively Support Underserved Populations │The PROMISE Center

    While best-in-class sectoral programs have successfully raised participants’ long-term earnings, far too few individuals are able to reap the benefits of participating in these programs. The PROMISE Center at AIR is dedicated to learning what may work to help integrate these underserved populations into a vital workforce ecosystem. ...

  • Event Highlights - California's Emerging Teacher Shortage: New Evidence and Policy Responses

    19 Jan 2016

    California’s supply of teachers is at a 12-year low. The trend continues as enrollment in educator preparation programs has dropped by more than 70 percent in the last decade. At a recent gathering in Sacramento, leading researchers, policy experts, and local practitioners looked at the problem in detail and offered ...
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    Expanding the Scale and Reach of Effective Sectoral Training Programs│The PROMISE Center

    Many innovative workforce training programs have sought to make a meaningful impact on low-income individuals’ lives through training and employment supports, though most fail to show long-term positive effects. AIR is seeking to partner with best-in-class sectoral programs to provide technical assistance and research expertise that strengthen their programming and ...
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    Strengthening Community College Workforce Programs │The PROMISE Center

    Community colleges are one of the pillars of the workforce development system in the United States. Through our work on community college workforce programs, the PROMISE Center at AIR aims to build a better understanding of what makes effective programs work so that those insights can be applied more broadly ...

  • Competency-Based Education: A Higher Return on Investment?

    11 Jun 2015

    Competency-based programs could reduce the barriers many face to getting a college degree, whether adult learners who struggle to balance an academic calendar with work and family, or workers who want to get the credentials verifying skills they’ve acquired on the job. AIR hosted a briefing on competency-based education, a ...
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    Supporting Postsecondary Enrollment for Adult Learners of Color

    To improve overall educational attainment and support equitable outcomes, it is critical to support working-age adults’ enrollment in postsecondary education—focusing especially on adult learners of color. This project, supported by Lumina Foundation, aims to help leaders at postsecondary institutions and state system offices design programs in ways that support the ...