Recent Projects by Category

District Redesign and Leadership

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...

College Readiness Indicator Systems

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...

Voices in Urban Education

The Next Four Years: Recommendations for Federal Education Policy

Issue: 36

Current standards- and market-based federal education reform policies are necessary, but not sufficient. In the Winter/Spring issue of VUE, AISR suggests a more robust, equitable, and comprehensive approach.

Recent Issues of VUE

College Readiness Indicator Systems

Issue: 35

In the Fall issue of VUE, researchers and practitioners from the College Readiness Indicator Systems initiative address the questions: How do we know when a student is “college ready,” and how do we use that information to design effective supports and interventions?

Education for Liberation

Issue: 34

In the summer issue of VUE, participants from the 2011 Free Minds Free People Conference write about the liberatory potential of education. Through myriad lenses, these teachers, students, activists, and scholars focus on the crucial ways that education forms the most basic foundation of a democratic, equitable society and what it means to engage in education for liberation.

> VUE 34 online