Amy Feygin is a principal researcher at AIR, where where she works with state education agencies and local education agencies on research, evaluation, and technical assistance projects. She is an expert in college and career readiness, particularly for underserved youth. She serves as Research Liaison to the Regional Education Laboratory (REL) ...
Douglas Fuchs is an Institute Fellow at AIR. He is also Professor of Special Education and Nicholas Hobbs Chair of Special Education and Human Development and Professor Pediatrics in the Vanderbilt University Medical School, Department of Special Education. At Vanderbilt, Fuchs has been principal investigator of 50 federally-sponsored research grants. ...
The 2014 Attorney General’s Advisory Committee report on American Indian/Alaska Native Children Exposed to Violence proclaimed the need for a re-imagined and re-created tribal juvenile justice system focused on prevention, treatment, and healing. AIR and its partners seek to serve and support the vision of promoting the health and well-being ...
Bobbi Newman is a principal researcher and director of AIR’s practice area for standards and assessments. She has more than 15 years of experience in research and evaluation of school reform efforts. Dr. Newman has worked at every level of the education system, from the classroom to the state. As ...
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.
Nara Nayar joined the Midwest Comprehensive Center at AIR as a technical assistance consultant in 2012. Her work with the MWCC has included providing content expertise and support for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s academic and career planning initiative and American Indian studies work. She also works on other ...
The purpose of this project is to facilitate enrollment in Medicaid/CHIP of youth discharged from the Juvenile Justice Administration in Kansas and to evaluate the project on behalf of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Ensuring medicines and other essential health commodities are available to patients when and where they need them is a key concern in Kenya. The health supply chain must be unfailing to the last mile and must demonstrate accountability and transparency given the high volume and value of those commodities. In ...
Elisabeth Davis is a principal researcher at AIR. Dr. Davis’s expertise includes college access and readiness, experimental and quasi-experimental design, and quantitative statistical methodology. She has collaborated on several projects in a variety of roles since joining AIR. Her most recent roles have been as principal investigator of a study ...
Beth Howard-Brown is a principal technical assistance consultant at AIR. She is currently supporting the early warning and intervention and monitoring system project and the AIR social and emotional learning solutions group. Dr. Howard-Brown has over 25 years of experience leading and managing local, state and federal initiatives. She served ...