Roger Jarjoura is on the leadership team for AIR’s National Reentry Resource Center, funded by the U.S. Department of Justice. Prior to joining AIR in 2012, he spent 19 years as a faculty member in the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, where he served as a fellow ...
Since 2007, the MTSS Center has been a national leader in supporting states, districts, and schools across the country in implementing tiered support systems that address students’ academic, behavioral, social, and emotional needs.
Melissa Hafner is a health policy researcher at AIR. Prior to joining AIR, she conducted health research at Mathematica Policy Research and the Massachusetts Medical Society. She also served as a senior program analyst in the Office of the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, ...
Students who receive high-quality social studies instruction are likely to develop skills that will help them make civic contributions in the future. Recognizing these needs in the field, AIR partnered with EdReports to develop evidence guides that educational professionals across the nation can use to identify high-quality instructional materials for ...
Senior Researcher Manolya Tanyu and her colleague Anna Barry support youth both in their careers at AIR and also as volunteer mentors to youth. In this Q&A, they discuss what they’ve learned and gained from youth-adult mentoring, how their hands-on experience affects their work, and why anyone considering becoming a ...
Experts from AIR will present at several sessions during the 2022 Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) conference. The conference will be held September 21-24, 2022 in Arlington, Virginia. Built around the theme “From Reckoning to Racial Justice: Centering Underserved Communities in Research on Educational Effectiveness,” the conference will ...
Countries such as Bangladesh and Mozambique have made universal access to pre-primary education a priority in recent years. Other countries hoping to improve their pre-primary education programs can learn from the experiences of Bangladesh and Mozambique; specifically, some of the necessary conditions to make pre-primary education programs effective. ...