Susan Lapham is a vice president at AIR, contributing her expertise in program and talent management and quality assurance. Lapham also co-directs Project Talent, a nationally representative longitudinal study of 400,000 Americans who were first surveyed in 1960. She serves as principle investigator on several grants from the National Institute ...
The Plan, Do, Study, Act Process is central to the improvement of instructional routines. Watch one of the Better Math Teaching Network members in real time and in a real classroom setting introduce the Plan, Do, Study, Act, or PDSA, process.
This analysis used 20 years of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 panel using an individual fixed-effects regression strategy to estimate the returns to noncredit-bearing credential and licensure pathways compared with credit-bearing credential and associate degree programs. Our findings show that credit-bearing credentials yield an approximately equal likelihood to ...
Dr. Marilyn Moon, a nationally-recognized economist and expert on Medicare, aging, consumer health issues and health care financing, has been selected by the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) to receive the prestigious Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance.
To address the problem of teacher turnover, the Nevada Department of Education is gathering uniform statewide information on teacher turnover and staff working conditions that can be used to improve the recruitment and retention of world-class employees.
Samia Amin is a managing researcher and the director of Workforce Development at AIR. She is passionate about promoting evidence-based innovation in the public sector. Her current areas of focus leading projects that help federal agencies pilot new ways of making evidence accessible and actionable and partnering with state and ...