Medicaid plays a key role in providing maternity-related services for birthing people, paying for slightly less than half of all births nationwide and nearly two-thirds of births to Black, Native, and Hispanic parents. AIR is investing in the field of maternal health equity through a mixed-methods study that aims to ...
Left untreated, chronic kidney disease can progress to kidney failure, known as end-stage renal disease. AIR works to address the disparities in care and the high cost of caring for patients with ESRD.
A growing number of states and districts are turning to competency-based education (CBE) as a strategy for enabling students to become college and career ready. This resource was produced to illustrate the various ways in which state education agencies can advance CBE initiatives.
AIR supports the Postsecondary, Adult, and Career Education Division (PACE) program in measuring participation in education and training for work, and in quantifying the outcomes of postsecondary education and student indebtedness.
More than 550,000 Medicare beneficiaries have end-stage renal disease. AIR supports the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in efforts to improve care for people with chronic kidney disease.
Robyn Madison is a senior technical assistance consultant in the Education Systems and Policy program at AIR. Her primary responsibilities include supporting many AIR project teams with advancing diversity-equity-inclusion and cultural and linguistic competence through their work with each other as colleagues and with our external constituency. Dr. Madison works ...
Catherine Jacques is a senior researcher at AIR. Her work focuses on systems and supports for educator effectiveness and development and for college- and career-readiness. Jacques provides technical assistance to states and districts and develops resources for the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders and the College and Career Readiness ...
In this blog post, Mark Schneider discusses the disconnect between what students and faculty expect from a college education, and how to reconcile those differences.
Trenita Childers is a health care policy researcher at AIR. Her work focuses primarily on health equity, social determinants of health, and communicating health information to broad audiences.
AIR and the Blue Shield of California Foundation are developing an "Innovations Scorekeeper" tool to help the foundation and its community clinic grantees in California measure progress toward improving patient care, population health and cost of care.