States with Race to the Top (RTT) grants from a $4.35 billion Obama Administration initiative enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 used more of the RTT-promoted policies and practices designed to improve K-12 student achievement, according to a new report by Mathematica Policy Research, ...
Jessica Heppen, a nationally recognized expert in education research, policy, and practice, is the president & CEO of AIR. Dr. Heppen been with AIR for 20 years and, in that time, has held several key roles during her tenure.
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) will send special education experts to discuss high school dropout prevention and response to intervention (RTI) at the annual conference of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), which is being held April 11-14, 2012 in Denver, CO.
Dr. Gilmour is a principal researcher at AIR. She has extensive experience in special education policy analysis, focusing on improving access to effective instruction for students with disabilities by studying special educator labor markets and teaching quality. Dr. Gilmour has methodological expertise in quantitative methods, often using data from state ...
Career and Technical Education (CTE) teachers are uniquely positioned to improve college and career readiness for all students, and yet major federal and state education reforms, such as the Common Core State Standards, teacher evaluation and ESEA flexibility have paid insufficient attention to direct supports for CTE teachers.
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The AIR Equity Initiative is addressing systemic inequalities in the U.S. and globally through our focus on four key areas—educational equity, public safety and policing, workforce development, and community health and well-being. Explore our project library.
Emerging findings from neuroscience, psychology, sociology illuminate the optimal human development periods—early childhood and adolescence—when we must act with intention and care. The Readiness Projects will bolster projects that support the readiness of youth, adults, systems, and community leaders by finding ways to test the utility of the learning sciences ...
AIR, in collaboration with Instructional Research Group (IRG), announces a Request for Proposals seeking qualified entities to provide training and support to elementary schools on the implementation of multi-tiered systems of support in reading (MTSS-R). The selected training provider will collaborate with AIR and IRG in a large-scale, randomized controlled ...
Nearly 80 experts from the American Institutes for Research will present current research findings April 8-12 in Washington, D.C., for the world’s largest annual gathering of educational research scholars: the American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference.
Sabrina Laine, a vice president at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), will discuss issues involving educator quality at the annual meeting of the National Association of State Title I Directors to be held August 4-5, 2011 in Washington, D.C. and the National Conference of State ...