Recent Projects by Category

Community Organizing and Engagement

Parent Power

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...

Support for Youth Organizing in New York City

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...

Support for Adult Organizing in New York City

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...

Center for Education Organizing

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...

Support for Organizing and Engagement in New England

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...

Voices in Urban Education

The Next Generation of School Reformers

Issue: 33

The spring issue of VUE, developed in partnership with Brown University’s Graduate School of Education/Urban Education Policy (UEP) Program, illuminates some of the initial outcomes of the UEP program from the perspective of recent graduates. Launched in 2006 and designed to prepare the next generation of urban education policy leaders, the UEP program has spawned five cohorts of graduates now facing and reflecting on the chronic problems of under-performing urban schools and districts.

> VUE 33 online

Recent Issues of VUE

Civic Investment in Public Education

Issue: 32

The latest issue of VUE, developed in partnership with PEN and featuring the first redesign of VUE since its inception in 2003, builds on the work of PEN’s National Commission on Civic Investment in Public Education and highlights the urgent need for greater civic investment in public schools, the work of more than 1,000 pioneering public education funds, and a new set of accountability and transparency standards developed by the Commission.

Effective Teaching as a Civil Right

Issue: 31

Two approaches to teaching effectiveness – performance management and instructional capacity building – are sometimes seen as mutually exclusive: how can they work together to address persistent achievement and opportunity gaps? This issue of VUE, produced in partnership with the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, University of California Berkeley School of Law, was inspired and informed by research presentations and discussions on equitable access to effective teaching at the Warren Institute’s Civil Rights Research Roundtable on Education in March 2011.