Established by AIR nearly 20 years ago, the Center for Special Education Finance (CSEF) has assisted the federal government and many states in measuring special education costs and expenditures and in formulating fiscal policy.
Public awareness of patient safety issues – from surgical errors to miscommunications and misdiagnoses – has grown dramatically. The greatest advances in safety encourage patient engagement, systems improvement, more effective communication and better risk assessment.
This spotlight takes a look at the history of Title I, how the program has changed over time, and how it affects children, schools, families and education policy. Experts weigh in on the program's past and future in interviews, briefs, and blogs.
Ashu Handa is an economist whose work centers on global poverty, health, and human development in sub-Saharan Africa. At AIR, he works to expand Equity Initiative work internationally and supports AIR’s global poverty research and policy efforts. He has been a professor at the University of North Carolina for 20 ...
Education policy experts Laura Hamilton and Orrin Murray analyze scholarly information and historical context about DARPA, ARPA-E, and ARPA-H and apply that learning to education research and its contexts, with the goal of informing the design and implementation of a National Center for Advanced Development in Education. ...
Growing evidence indicates that informing and engaging the public—both as patients and as citizens—can help achieve better care, better health, and lower costs. AIR research, conducted as part of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Deliberative Methods Demonstration, found that public deliberation is an effective way to gather informed ...
In this video interview, Jill Yegian, co-director of AIR’s Health Policy and Research Group, talks about the challenges and opportunities in creating health insurance exchanges, virtual marketplaces where consumers and small business can comparison shop for affordable health insurance.
In California, the demand for full-day, full-year early care and education programs has grown over time due to changing family needs. The purpose of this policy brief is specifically to address the financing issues involved in providing full-day, full-year preschool programs.
The Ohio Department of Education recently awarded AIR a contract to identify and cost out best practices for providing services to students with disabilities. In addition to informing Ohio on how its special education funding policy might be improved, this work also relies on AIR’s technical assistance expertise to support ...
Health experts from AIR will present at the AcademyHealth's Annual Research Meeting on June 27 – 29, 2010 at the Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston, MA. AcademyHealth is a professional community of health services researchers and policy analysts who commit to using the best health research to improve ...