Michelle Perry is a senior technical assistance consultant in the Youth, Family, and Community Development program area at AIR. She currently serves as deputy project director for the Corrections and Community Engagement Technical Assistance Center, funded by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance. In this role, she ...
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 ...
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.
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.
The media plays a significant role in shaping how Americans perceive, understand, and respond to serious public health challenges. AIR works with the CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention’s news media team on nearly every major development concerning these diseases. ...
The Conditional Cash Transfer Program Avancemos Program was developed by the Government of Costa Rica to combat the rising problem of drop-out and abandonment in secondary school. An evaluation was conducted of the program, designed to provide monetary compensation to beneficiary households with the requirement that their students regularly attend ...
In an effort to address gender disparities in the computer science field and promote diversity, Girls Who Code (GWC) offers two free virtual summer programs to high school students, specifically designed for female and nonbinary high school students. AIR partnered with GWC to conduct an independent evaluation of the effectiveness ...
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 ...
Educational opportunity is a cherished part of the American story of upward mobility and social justice. The Equity Project at AIR is committed to building an inclusive and vibrant future through education.
Kamal Middlebrook is a research associate at AIR. His primary responsibilities include supporting evidence synthesis and measurement equity across education research. Middlebrook also focuses on equity in the workforce, among other systems across health and human development. He has extensive experience in survey research methods, along with other quantitative methods ...