Current Projects
The Center for Education Organizing (CEO) supports and amplifies local and national demands for educational justice in underserved communities. The CEO integrates the expertise of a university-based research center, years of on-the-ground experience supporting education organizing, and our...
In January of 2010, Central Falls High School (CFHS) was identified as one of Rhode Island’s persistently lowest‐achieving schools. Schools identified as persistently lowest-achieving are required to choose among four possible intervention models: turnaround, restart, school closure, or...
The Institute has been helping leaders at the Ford Foundation to surface a theory of philanthropy, design elements for a new initiative focused on more and better learning time for secondary school students, and define the Foundation’s approach to this work.
Education leaders across the country are confounded by a growing phenomenon: too many students are not college ready when they leave high school. Although indicators exist to identify students at-risk of dropping out of high school, few indicators of students’ college readiness are...
AISR research staff are in the second year of a two-and-a-half-year documentation and evaluation of MNPS Achieves – a reform aimed at developing leadership for transformational change – which is part of a major, multi-pronged improvement effort launched by Director of Schools Jesse Register. The...
AISR provides technical assistance to support the local district redesign efforts of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation’s New Day for Learning (NDL) initiative. The initiative’s goal is the redesign of school- and community-based learning resources so that all children receive the supports needed...
In 1995, a small group of parents in the south Bronx discovered that only 17 percent of their elementary school children were reading at grade level. Their determined campaign to bring high-quality education to their neighborhood, one of the poorest in the nation, evolved into a citywide effort...
CO&E staff provide research, training, and logistical support to the New York City Coalition for Educational Justice (CEJ) in New York City, a citywide coalition of parent- and community-led neighborhood collaboratives. Through a combination of grassroots mobilization, strategic alliance...
AISR will support a collaboration between the Rhode Island Office of Higher Education (RIOHE) and the Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop a statewide indicator system for K–16 college readiness and success. The work will be done in partnership with the...
AISR supports the Nellie Mae Education Foundation’s (NMEF) two major initiatives to help school districts and communities in New England achieve excellence and equity in their local schools. NMEF’s District Level Systems Change (DLSC) initiative is aimed at developing, promoting, and deepening...