AIR is the evaluation partner for the Defense STEM Education Consortium (DSEC), a collaborative partnership between academia, industry, not-for-profit organizations, and government that aims to broaden STEM literacy and develop a diverse and agile workforce to power the U.S. innovative defense infrastructure. ...
Through the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program, the USDA provides support to low-income, food-deficit countries around the globe to reduce hunger and improve literacy and primary education, especially for girls. Since 2013, AIR has conducted over 25 evaluations of McGovern Dole Food for Education projects around ...
Helen Muhisani is a senior researcher at AIR. She has more than ten years of experience in data analysis and reporting, with a particular focus on postsecondary outcomes and indicators of college and career readiness. Muhisani currently serves as the project director of a study examining the relationship between National ...
Elisha DeLuca serves as project director for the Violence Prevention Training and Technical Assistance Center (VPTAC). She provides oversight and direction for the project; serves as the primary point of contact for the client; manages the work plan and budget, oversees the work of all team members, and processes and ...
Elizabeth Zachry Rutschow is a managing researcher at AIR. She is an expert in postsecondary and adult education reform and has led many large-scale, mixed-methods evaluations of community college and adult education reforms. She is dedicated to using qualitative and quantitative research to improve equity and the prosperity and well-being of ...
Parents, teachers, schools, districts, states, and especially students all want schools that prepare graduates to thrive in the 21st century. In this blog post, Anne Mishkind asks what it means to be "college and career ready."
A new study co-authored by AIR expert Mark Schneider finds that 51 percent of Hispanic college students earn an undergraduate degree in six years, compared with 59 percent of white students. Hispanic students graduate at lower rates than their white peers across similarly ranked institutions – from the nation's least ...
Amy Trauth is a researcher with expertise in P-16 STEM curriculum and instruction, classroom and large-scale assessment, teacher preparation, and issues related to equity and access in P-16 STEM education. She serves as a science content expert on the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) and the Trends in International ...
The State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) provides free, in-depth, one-on-one insurance counseling and assistance annually to about 3 million Medicare beneficiaries, their families, friends, and caregivers. AIR developed and maintained the SHIP National Performance Report program from 2007 to 2014 to provide continuous monitoring by the Centers for Medicare ...
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) ...