This PowerPoint presentation, prepared for the Fall 2011 Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness conference, accompanies the research paper, The Impact of Indiana’s System of Benchmark Assessments on Mathematics Achievement. The objectives of the study described include the following. ...
This commentary by Amanda Latimore appeared in the Baltimore Sun on December 4, 2020. "With most states now much higher than the 5% COVID-19 test positivity limit recommended for reopening—and at least 10 states exceeding 20% positivity—announcements of vaccine deployment as early as December couldn’t come soon enough. But for ...
More than 550,000 Medicare beneficiaries have end-stage renal disease. AIR supports the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in efforts to improve care for people with chronic kidney disease.
An estimated 90,000 Americans have sickle cell disease (SCD), and increased infant screening, improved disease management throughout childhood, and better therapies have all led to much longer lives for people with this rare blood disorder. With funding from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, AIR led a team of ...
Sexually transmitted infections (STI) clinics and other community-based organizations play a vital role in providing timely access to STI prevention services, particularly for medically underserved communities. Medicaid is a critical partner in STI prevention and treatment; however, many people who receive Medicaid benefits are not able to receive treatment for ...
In an era of increasingly rigorous state standards, teachers at all grade levels face heightened expectations to deepen their students’ understanding of mathematical concepts. This report examines the impact of content-intensive professional development on teachers’ math content knowledge, their instructional practice, and their students’ achievement. ...
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.
New national standards documents have been developed over the past few years in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and are leading to major changes in state curricula and assessments. This study provides information primarily on the extent of alignment between the Next Generation Science Standards and National ...
What students are expected to learn in some states can vary greatly with what students are expected to learn in other states. This AIR study uses international benchmarking as a common metric to examine the variance in state performance standards, exposing a large gap in expectations between the states with ...
Will Tad Johnston is a senior technical assistance consultant at AIR specializing in mathematics education. He works with the AIR District and School Improvement Team as a mathematics instructional coach working with teachers, building instructional coaches, and administrators in high poverty schools with high percentages of students of color and/or ...