Emily Weinberg is a senior researcher focusing on early childhood and K-12 education policy. Weinberg has more than 16 years of experience conducting and contributing to evaluations of educational programs and policies. Weinberg has also provided support to foundations, counties, and other local organizations in California on planning for expanding ...
This study aims to understand the role that reading motivation plays in middle school reading achievement (including achievement gaps) by analyzing the 2015 grade 8 NAEP reading data. The study focuses on identifying the unique effects of student-level reading motivation and aggregated school-level mean reading motivation on reading achievement. ...
Sushmita Subedi, Ph.D., is a senior researcher in the Education Systems program area at AIR. Dr. Subedi has more than 10 years of experience in research and evaluation of school and district improvement, social emotional learning, and educator development programs. Her current responsibilities include directing the PreK-12 RESTART Network Lead ...
Lisa B. Hsin is a developmental scientist and senior researcher at AIR, where she develops and contributes to a range of education research and technical assistance projects. Her major areas of focus include English learners, language and literacy learning, and impact variation.Currently, Dr. Hsin leads and contributes to analysis, design, ...
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. ...
Shannon Keuter is a senior researcher at AIR. Keuter’s focus is on measurement and data collection, with extensive experience training data collectors. Her area of expertise is in early childhood education research, primarily in language development. She also leads and collaborates on direct tasks and projects in technical assistance for ...
The core of AIR's work supporting English learners (ELs) is done through the Center for English Learners. ELs face the challenge of acquiring content knowledge in English at the same time as they acquire English as an additional language.