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The Achievement & Assessment Institute
AAI and its centers partner with numerous agencies to improve the lives of children and adults through academics, employment, career advancement, and building healthy environments, and to enhance the capacity of organizations that help children, adults, and communities succeed.
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AAI Centers
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Grant Support
Learn about our life cycle grant support for AAI researchers and KU faculty.
Celebrating 10 Years of AAI
Learn about our origins and how we have grown over the last 10 years.
AAI in the News
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AAI announces the Center for Geography of Education Policy
The Achievement & Assessment Institute (AAI) at the University of Kansas has announced the Center for Geography of Education Policy. The center’s main purpose is to explore the ways that education policy and school management are both shaped by and shape geography.
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Applied Innovations with Charles Pittack
The work of the Achievement & Assessment Institute (AAI) and its centers encompass a vast range of services, solutions, and partnerships. In our short interview series, Applied Innovations, we get to know some of the talented members of our team and their projects, across several centers and various areas of impact.
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KU's TRIO SES & STEM honors first-generation advocates at 6th annual I Am First Too poster unveiling
The Achievement & Assessment Institute’s Center for Educational Opportunity Programs is hosting its sixth annual I Am First Too commemorative poster unveiling in honor of members of the University of Kansas community who have excelled as role models and advocates of first-generation student success.
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ATS Completes Another Successful Summer Deployment: Enhancing Kite® Suite with New Tools and Security Upgrades
Summer is a busy time for the Achievement and Assessment Institute’s Assessment & Technology Solutions (ATS). School is out, which means months full of meetings, coding, implementations, and testing ATS software which culminates to a single full day of updates, ATS’s summer deployment.