Recent Projects by Category

Research and Policy

Urban Education Policy Masters Program, Brown University

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...

New Day for Learning

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...

Support for College Access Challenge Grant

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...

Central Falls Case Study

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...

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.