AIR experts played a key role in producing America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2015, a biennial report focusing on children up to 17 years old. The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics released the report. The report uses data from nationally representative, federally sponsored surveys, grouped ...
To improve the outcomes of adult learners, programs and educators need research they can trust and readily use to inform practice. AIR contributes to the research base about what works for adult learners by conducting rigorous and policy-relevant studies focused on teaching and learning.
Experts from AIR will present at several sessions during the annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society, being held April 14-18 in San Francisco, California. The theme for this year’s conference is “Education for Sustainability,” and will explore questions about what type of development is spread through literacy, ...
In collaboration with our partners, government leaders, and field experts, AIR has worked to strengthen the evidence base, provide evidence-backed equity resources, and support equal access to programs that can help people and communities thrive.
Millions of working-age adults with disabilities are willing to work but do not have jobs and do not count as unemployed. Labor participation choices and employment experiences of people with disabilities vary substantially by disability type, suggesting a need to account for this diversity in efforts to improve the labor ...
Millions of children across the world are unable to read a single word even after up to four years of schooling. The goal of this landscape report is to review and summarize available empirical evidence on early grade literacy acquisition and instruction in developing countries.
Despite rapid growth spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth visits offset less than half of the decline in in-person visits for elderly Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries five chronic conditions. Additional research is needed to assess the impact of ending telehealth flexibilities on equitable healthcare access and quality. ...
Longstanding systemic health and social inequities have put Americans categorized as racial and ethnic minorities at greater risk of getting sick and dying from COVID-19. At the same time, Latinos have a history of good health outcomes. AIR Institute Fellow David E. Hayes-Bautista has researched Latino health outcomes for more ...
A team of experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) played a key role in writing and producing "Higher Education: Gaps in Access and Persistence Study," a congressionally mandated report that documents the gaps in access to and completion of higher education by minority males. Released by the federal ...
AIR experts will explore a variety of education research and finance topics during the 41st annual Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) conference, taking place at the Denver Marriott City Center in Denver, CO, March 17-19.