When approached by a federal agency looking to improve service delivery experiences and outcomes for customers with disabilities, we discovered that while staff on the frontlines understood what the law required of them, they often struggled to put policy into practice when providing customer service. We provided assistance applying key ...
Experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will present at several sessions during the 2023 Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) conference. The conference will be held September 27-30, 2023, at the Renaissance Arlington Capitol View Hotel in Arlington, Virginia.
Alise Crossland (Brann) is a senior researcher at AIR with more than 13 years of experience identifying and assessing digital learning technologies for both general and special education. Her work focuses on providing technical assistance and professional development to educators at the local, state, and national level on the use ...
The Equity in Education Dashboard, developed by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), is an interactive collection of data and resources on equity in education. The dashboard provides federal agencies and others with unprecedented access to compiled federal data on educational equity in the United ...
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 ...
The purpose of this project is to facilitate enrollment in Medicaid/CHIP of youth discharged from the Juvenile Justice Administration in Kansas and to evaluate the project on behalf of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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 blog post by Senior TA Consultants Abby Bandurraga and Gina Wells lays out the Five Elements of Effective State Apprenticeship, a framework developed by AIR through the State Apprenticeship Expansion Project.
A new study by Coffey Consulting and AIR for the U.S. Department of Labor identifies promising practices first responder agencies and organizations can use to increase the diversity of their workforces. The research team visited five agencies and first responder training providers that were selected on the basis of how ...
Because the development of skill-based coordination training is dependent on the accurate identification of crucial behaviors to be trained, and because there is a need to develop more effective methods to identify these skills, the purpose of this investigation was to identify a psychometrically sound index of team task importance ...