Jonathan A. Simonetta is Vice President, International Development at AIR. As Vice President, he mentors researchers, oversees projects, monitors overall project performance, and leads business development for our International Development Division.
An intensive content-focused professional development program improved fourth-grade teachers’ knowledge and some aspects of their instruction, but not their students’ achievement, according to a new study by AIR.
Dr. Julia Lane, a senior managing economist and Institute Fellow at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), has been chosen to receive the 2014 Julius Shiskin Memorial Award for Economic Statistics in recognition of her role in developing a Census Bureau program on employment dynamics.
Experts from AIR will have a significant presence at the annual conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE), being held March 4-6, 2010 at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Experts from AIR will participate in the annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), which attracts academics, researchers and practitioners in the fields of comparative education, international development, and global and regional studies.
Once violence ends in war-torn countries and schools re-open, girls frequently have a harder time resuming their education than boys. Those challenges will be explored during a panel discussion entitled "In the Wake of War: Recognizing and Remedying the Educational Plight of Girls," which will be held on March 13, ...
Experts from AIR and IMPAQ, an AIR affiliate, will present at several sessions during the annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), being held virtually April 25 to May 2, 2021. The theme for this year’s conference is “Social Responsibility within Changing Contexts,” and focuses on closely ...
AIR experts will present at the 61st annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), being held March 5-9 in Atlanta, Georgia. This year’s conference theme is “Problematizing (In)Equality: The Promise of Comparative and International Education.”
The Discovery Research PreK-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of STEM by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of STEM education innovations and approaches. This project aims to deepen NSF and STEM community understanding of recent intellectual contributions and the broader impact of grants ...
Rural educators in the Northeast Region are beginning to implement the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. For the implementation to be successful, teachers reported needing more time to collaborate and increased access to high-quality curricula and professional development opportunities.