Fernanda Marinho Kray, Ph.D., a polyglot educator and researcher, is senior technical assistance consultant at AIR. She brings more than 20 years of experience supporting multicultural and multilingual learners through the lenses of research, theory, policy, and practice.Dr. Marinho Kray has authored an array of materials in the field of ...
One critical aspect in the implementation of skills-based practices is to be able to measure and track the skills that employees learn on the job. This report looks into the landscape of employer skill validation practices and the systems and tools that support them.
Academically resilient students are those students who are academically successful, despite coming from the socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds that have typically predicted poorer educational outcomes. This brief uses 2011 eighth-grade data from the TIMSS to explore (1) how prevalent academically resilient students are across education systems and (2) what factors are ...
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.
This resource provides a basic understanding of secondary Career and Technical Education programs and specific steps that can be taken to implement system alignment strategies between these CTE programs and Registered Apprenticeships.
Google for Education collaborated with research partner Canvas8 to conduct a study across 24 countries, interviewing experts on how and why they are rethinking the role of education. AIR served as an advisor and consultant to this research, which contains insights from interviews with 94 education thought leaders, including experts in ...
Alejandra Martin is a researcher at AIR. Dr. Martin has experience in research and evaluation studies of English language learners and dual language learners, child development, and family and community engagement. She has extensive experience contributing to large federal contracts, including with the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
Dr. Martin is ...
Meghan Wills is a senior TA consultant in the Workforce program at AIR. Her primary responsibilities include providing strategic support and technical assistance to strengthen and modernize the Registered Apprenticeship system and expanding the use of Registered Apprenticeship to train and prepare the educator workforce.Wills has more than 12 years ...
Researchers for American Institutes for Research (AIR) have won the prestigious 2007 M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace, given by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).
This report outlines a number of critical issues that should be addressed in order to allow states to explore and understand relationships between the performance of English language learning students on NAEP and on state assessments in this policy context.