Recent Projects by Category
AISR has supported a wide range of partners in developing their work and publications by helping with research design, data analysis, coordination, and publication development and production. Our executive director and staff serve as advisors and board members for a number of networks and...
Community Organizing and Engagement
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 Urban Youth Collaborative (UYC) in New York City. With AISR support, UYC has contributed to important successes such as the campaign to reverse budget cuts for free and reduced-price public transportation passes for students...
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...
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...
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...
District Redesign and Leadership
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.
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...
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...
Research and Policy
AISR collaborates with the education department at Brown University to offer the Urban Education master’s degree program. Michelle Renée and Warren Simmons co-teach the Urban Systems and Structures class; Mike Grady and Ellen Foley co-teach the Research Design and Methods class as well as a course...