AIR is conducting a rigorous evaluation of Montessori preschool programs in public schools to understand differences in student outcomes and program costs compared to other preschool models.
Many literacy interventions have emerged to help children around the world learn to read outside of school. Elizabeth Spier, an AIR principal researcher, talks about what evidence exists about how effective complementary outside school reading activities are at actually improving overall literacy outcomes. ...
The Ethiopian government has made a firm commitment to supporting early childhood development and school readiness support nationally. However, the creation of (Grade 0) kindergarten classes in all primary schools cannot be achieved overnight. UNICEF Ethiopia received a challenge grant to test the effectiveness of two accelerated school readiness programs ...
Clea Vannet is a qualitative researcher in the Health Program at AIR. She conducts evaluations and implements programs that seek to address health equity and improve behavioral health systems and outcomes for patients served, in community with those most impacted. Vannet has over seven years of experience designing qualitative data ...
The Indiana Choice Scholarship Program, launched in 2011, offers a rich opportunity to study how a large-scale tuition-voucher program works and to analyze the results it has produced in its first few years. This article describes the results of a four-year study of the Indiana program.