The Michigan Department of Education and the Michigan State Board of Education are committed to closing academic achievement gaps in the state. Their initial focus is on rapidly improving academic outcomes for African-American young men, the persistently lowest achieving demographic subgroup in the state. ...
Jesse Levin is a principal research economist at AIR, where he has directed projects investigating school finance equity and adequacy, resource allocation, and educational effectiveness. He is the founding director of the AIR Economic Evaluation of Policies and Programs Methods Hub and led the Cost Analysis Standards Project, which produced ...
For nearly ten years, AIR has supported the Office of Communications and Government Relations at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the strategy and tactics of translating, tailoring and disseminating research findings and funding opportunities to a diverse audience of researchers, policy makers, clinicians, providers ...
Researchers from AIR's Center for Economic Evaluation supported North Carolina with an alternative market rate model study as well as creating the North Carolina Child Care Cost Estimation Tool to inform state decisions around child care policies.
Many longitudinal and follow-up studies face a common challenge in locating participants over time. The 2011–12 Project Talent Follow-up Pilot Study examined the extent to which a geographically dispersed subsample of participants can be located again after decades with no contact, using relatively low-cost methods. ...
The American Institutes for Research is hosting a two-day TeamSTEPPS Collaborative Conference on team training in health care on May 1-2, 2007 at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. The conference brings together early adopters of the TeamSTEPPS training program to create partnerships that will promote research and develop team training ...
Micro-credentials are quick competency-based certifications that illustrate mastery of a skill. This research brief describes the existing research on micro-credentials, Leadership for Equity micro-credential content, the analytical approach that informed this research, and findings from interviews with principals. ...
The initiatives to enhance adult learning program accountability and assessment systems of the following states are described in this paper: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Oregon, Texas, Washington, West Virginia.
Arlington, Va. – Public opinion and survey experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will present several sessions at the 78th annual American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) conference, being held May 10-12, 2023, at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown in Philadelphia.The conference theme is “Working Together: The Essential ...
The debate over Medicare’s future takes many forms. At its most basic, the issue is whether we can (or want to) afford Medicare. This series of issue briefs addresses key questions concerning the future of Medicare and how that will affect taxpayers and beneficiaries over time.