Ryan Eisner is a senior researcher at the AIR. He has experience with both qualitative and quantitative research and evaluation methods, and his and his areas of study span from educator quality, college and career readiness and success, mathematics education, school choice, dropout prevention, school leaders, English language learners, early childhood ...
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 ...
After years of talking about America’s seniors as disproportionately poor, some commentators now characterize older Americans as better off than their younger counterparts. But many still live just above the poverty line, struggling to get by on dwindling savings while paying increasingly higher medical costs. This AIR Whiteboard, narrated by ...
Dr. Anderson is a researcher at AIR with extensive experience in educational program evaluation and policy analysis, focusing on policies and programs to address systemic inequalities in education, including those related to student discipline, special education, teacher quality, curricular tracking, segregation, and opportunity gaps. Dr. Anderson has methodological expertise in ...