Perlita Muiruri provides technical direction for U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs (USDOL/ILAB) labor law enforcement and labor justice reform projects, overseeing day-to-day project operations, engaging with key Mexican government stakeholders, and ensuring that AIR projects successfully address key labor reform challenges in Mexico.
Specifically, Muiruri directs project ...
Providing English language instruction has important implications for millions of children nationwide. This Statistics in Brief report uses data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, focused on the Kindergarten Class of 2010-11, to examine students who participated in English language programs. ...
Alicia Espinoza is a senior technical assistance consultant at AIR. Her expertise includes coaching teacher leaders, school administrators, and district leaders through the implementation of evidence-based district and school improvement systems, processes, and practices. She specializes in school-wide design and implementation of professional learning communities, literacy in secondary and adult ...
This webinar will include two studies that demonstrate costs of scaled-up livelihoods and health interventions, delivered through women’s group programming. The session will specifically explore economies of scale and cost-effectiveness of a Self-Help Group program in India.
Sophia Arredondo is a technical assistant specialist at AIR with experience in projects related to youth, family, and community development. She is responsible for providing specialized direct assistance and training to local educational agencies (LEAs) impacted by community violence to expand their capacity to implement community- and school-based strategies that ...
The Plan, Do, Study, Act Process is central to the improvement of instructional routines. Watch one of the Better Math Teaching Network members in real time and in a real classroom setting introduce the Plan, Do, Study, Act, or PDSA, process.
As a part of the Striving Readers program supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Milwaukee Public Schools implemented the Read 180 program in five schools in an effort to provide targeted literacy supports to struggling students. This evaluation update details the results of the evaluation, which show that the ...
The return of American men and women in uniform serving in Iraq and Afghanistan rivals the scale of World War II demobilizations in some communities. In partnership with the National Center on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the National Center on Family Homelessness created Community Circles of Support for Veterans Families, ...
Roddy Theobald is a managing researcher in the Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) at AIR. His primary responsibilities include overseeing eight externally-funded research projects related to the teacher labor market and its implications for student outcomes. He has extensive experience using large administrative datasets to ...
Mukesh Ray is a senior economist in AIR's Health Division with over 10 years of experience implementing and studying health and development policies, with a particular focus on Medicaid. He has led projects that involve advanced econometric methods, data sciences, experimental and quasi-experimental program evaluations, statistical modeling, and programming. Dr. ...