This report begins by sharing data and research on the problem of minority male achievement and the narrow pipeline to STEM careers, and discusses the Model Institutions for Excellence Program and why it is ideally poised to lead the Expanding the K–16 Pool effort.
Jaspal Bhatia works with the AIR Equity Initiative, where he leads the Public Safety and Policing grant portfolio and supports the Educational Equity work. Prior to AIR, he worked at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Yibing Li a principal researcher at AIR, has experience in education research and evaluation and specializes in research design and advanced quantitative methods. Her methodological specializes include randomized controlled trials and various quasi-experimental designs, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, and longitudinal data analysis She directs and co-directs large scale research and ...
Michelle Perry is a senior technical assistance consultant in the Youth, Family, and Community Development program area at AIR. She currently serves as deputy project director for the Corrections and Community Engagement Technical Assistance Center, funded by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance. In this role, she ...
Fernanda Marinho Kray, Ph.D., a polyglot educator and researcher, is senior technical assistance consultant at AIR. She brings more than 20 years of experience supporting multicultural and multilingual learners through the lenses of research, theory, policy, and practice.Dr. Marinho Kray has authored an array of materials in the field of ...
Years of research show that students from low-income families are more likely to forget previously learned material over the summer than students from wealthier families. Over time, these losses add up, widening the socioeconomic disparity in academic performances. Carol McElvain explains how high quality summer opportunities for low-income students can ...
This spotlight takes a look at the history of Title I, how the program has changed over time, and how it affects children, schools, families and education policy. Experts weigh in on the program's past and future in interviews, briefs, and blogs.
In an effort to address gender disparities in the computer science field and promote diversity, Girls Who Code (GWC) offers two free virtual summer programs to high school students, specifically designed for female and nonbinary high school students. AIR partnered with GWC to conduct an independent evaluation of the effectiveness ...
Google for Education collaborated with research partner Canvas8 to conduct a study across 24 countries, interviewing experts on how and why they are rethinking the role of education. AIR served as an advisor and consultant to this research, which contains insights from interviews with 94 education thought leaders, including experts in ...
What is summer STEM? Hands-on programs that teach science, technology, engineering, and math in ways that engage young people and fight the summer learning loss that especially affects the nation’s most vulnerable children and youth. In this blog post, Elizabeth Devaney and Courtney Tanenbaum share what we’re learning about successful ...