Experts with AIR will explore a variety of education research and finance topics during the 42nd annual Association for Education Finance and Policy conference in Washington, DC, March 16-18. This year’s conference theme is “Education Policy and Research in the Post-Obama Era,” and will focus on how the leadership shift ...
Making education a true engine for human and social development requires evidence-based instructional strategies and systems for students, families, and teachers. AIR integrates the science of what works with the equally complex science of implementing what works on a global scale.
The Communication Toolkit: Using Information to Get High Quality Care is based on AIR's rigorous study of the challenges involved in disseminating information about evidence-based health care.
Through Pakistan Data and Research for Education (DARE), AIR has two contracts from the World Bank – funded by the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office – to provide technical assistance on large-scale student assessments at the national and provincial levels in Pakistan.
In a webinar on February 28, 2023, AIR presented new data across case studies, including the key institutional, political, financial, and sociocultural factors affecting the inclusion of displaced children into national education systems.
Health experts from AIR will present at the AcademyHealth's Annual Research Meeting on June 27 – 29, 2010 at the Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston, MA. AcademyHealth is a professional community of health services researchers and policy analysts who commit to using the best health research to improve ...
The U.S. Department of Education has invested substantial funds in turning around the nation’s lowest performing schools and has contracted with AIR to examine how schools’ receiving federal school improvement grants (SIGs) are changing over time.
This article, authored by distinguished AIR researcher Jennifer O’Day, compares the effects of selected instructional practices on both English Language Learners (ELLs) and non-ELLs.
An innovative school program supported by AIR is being invested in by the Zambian government after showing promising effects for students in rural sections of the country. The eSchool 360 program is being implemented by the non-profit Impact Network and operates in more than 40 schools, serving over 6,000 students ...
AIR identified differences between the items on Hong Kong's and Massachusetts' internal mathematics assessments administered in the spring of grade 3 in 2007 to gather insight into the relative mathematical expectations in Hong Kong and Massachusetts.