With so much attention focused on the importance of teachers, the significant role that principals play advancing instructional improvement, educational equity, and success for all students is frequently overlooked. Principal residency is one innovative approach to improving principal preparation that has shown promise for ensuring new principals are ready to ...
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 ...
The purpose of this review was to identify key findings from research regarding mathematics and science educational reform that could inform Microsoft’s philanthropic investments as well as the reform agendas of other school districts.
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.
Two experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) who work on its California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project (CALPRO), were recently honored with awards at the California Adult Education Administrators Association (CAEAA) annual conference for their work in the adult education field. ...
AIR experts Mark Schneider and Courtney Tanenbaum will participate in the STEM Solutions National Leadership Conference, hosted by U.S. News & World Report, in Baltimore May 18-20. The conference brings together national leaders and experts looking to increase the participation of women, minorities, veterans and underserved populations in science, technology, ...
Tamika Cowans is a senior researcher at AIR. She has over seven years of experience providing research, project management, and administrative support for projects pertaining to survey development, patient experiences of care, and chronic diseases. She has experience in qualitative data collection and analysis including conducting focus groups, environmental scans, ...
Experts from the AIR will present several sessions during the annual conference of the Coalition on Adult Basic Education, being held March 31 – April 3, 2019, at the New Orleans Marriott in New Orleans, La. AIR experts will present at 13 sessions on a wide variety of topics, including ...
Researchers from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) attend annual conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE), and discuss randomized field trials in school settings, mathematics and science education, preschool, teacher professional development, more.