Contributing and working alongside Native Nations, AIR has a deep commitment to engaging communities, fostering shared vision and values, building capacity, and developing strategic alliances to achieve sustainable systems change in Indian Country.
The Pay for Success/Social Impact Bond (PFS/SIB) model is an innovative, multi-stakeholder partnership funding mechanism in which government and philanthropic organizations provide upfront funding for program implementation under the umbrella of pay-for-performance principles. This presentation from the 2017 European Society for Prevention Research Conference critically reviews how the model has ...
Jim Lindsay is a principal researcher with AIR. As a leader with the Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, Dr. Lindsay designed and led large-scale studies on the implementation and impact of educational interventions, including Ramp-Up to Readiness (a college readiness intervention) and the Content Literacy Continuum (an adolescent literacy intervention). Dr. ...
AIR Managing Researcher Tracy Gray, an expert on the innovative use of technology for teaching and learning, will participate in the Technologies in Education 2014 forum on Sept. 11, hosted by The Atlantic.
The Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region is home to less than 8% of the world’s population, but its rates of crime and violence are some of the highest in the world, with 37% of all homicides. The Latin America and the Caribbean-Youth Violence Prevention project’s overarching goal is to ...
Education technology experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will present during the annual Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) conference March 19-22, 2014 in Washington, D.C.
Two experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) who work on its California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project (CALPRO), were recently honored with awards at the California Adult Education Administrators Association (CAEAA) annual conference for their work in the adult education field. ...
Dr. Gary Phillips, a nationally known expert on educational assessments and a vice president with the American Institutes for Research (AIR), will offer his insights on "The Past and Future of Reading in America: The Big Picture" during his keynote address November 22nd at the West Virginia Reading Association's annual ...
Darren Cambridge, an expert in education technology and online communities of practice at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), has been awarded the Faculty Writing Prize for his "innovative and groundbreaking" book, Eportfolios for Lifelong Learning and Assessment.
Experts from AIR will be featured prominently at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, being held April 5-9, 2019 in Toronto, Canada. AIR is the platinum sponsor for the event. Built around the theme “Leveraging Education Research in a 'Post-Truth' Era: Multimodal Narratives to Democratize Evidence,” the ...