In the marketplace, people with disabilities—and their families, friends, and advocates—wield considerable spending power. This underrecognized market sector offers tremendous potential to the business community. AIR and its partners created two research briefs that inform the business community in Boston and several other top metropolitan areas about the challenges faced ...
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.
Besides the direct impact of COVID-19 on daily life, the pandemic has affected how individuals approach their personal health and well-being, including if and how they seek health care services.
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.
The U.S. Department of Labor reported that 23 million Americans were unemployed as of April 2020. While these numbers may seem shocking, the official count may exclude up to 8 million more who lost jobs or stopped looking for work between February and April. This brief examines those numbers.
This brief highlights findings from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) in an effort to obtain a clear understanding of the ability of adults to undertake digital problem solving. This brief uses data gathered from a sample of 5,000 adults across different socio-demographic groups in the ...
The American Institutes for Research invites you to a panel discussion on adult charter schools’ potential to prepare adult learners for today’s jobs. The conversation will emphasize Washington, D.C.—the national leader with 11 such schools.
Jason Katz is a senior researcher at AIR and serves as a deputy director for a pilot project conducted by AIR’s Quality Initiative. He has expertise in implementation science, program evaluation, and continuous quality improvement.
Dr. Katz leads and co-leads many qualitative data collection activities. He is currently the qualitative lead ...
In partnership with Harvard University’s Project on Workforce and its initiative on Reimagining the Economy, the PROMISE Center is examining how community colleges across the country approach and succeed with workforce training.
AIR has been awarded the government-wide Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTS) contract, designed to provide human capital strategy, tailored training and development, and organizational performance improvement services to all federal agencies. HCaTS is an indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle managed through a partnership between the General Services Administration (GSA) ...