Rebecca Zumeta Edmonds is a managing researcher at the AIR in Washington, DC, where she serves as the co-director of the National Center on Intensive Intervention, and as project director for an Investing in Innovation and Improvement (i3) Development Grant. She previously coordinated services for the Response to Intervention Center ...
Alka Arora is a senior researcher at AIR with more than 15 years of experience in large-scale comparative studies of educational achievement. In her current position, she provides technical and psychometric support for the development of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) across all NAEP subjects. Additionally, she provides content ...
To understand how teachers are promoting whole-child development, AIR analyzed survey data from a nationally representative sample of K-12 public school teachers using RAND’s American Teacher Panel. The three brief reports in this series present results for three topics, and an appendix provides the full set of survey questions. ...
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 ...
Growing evidence shows that patient and family engagement plays a central role in improving health outcomes while also improving the patient experience of care and reducing costs. The Roadmap for Patient and Family Engagement in Healthcare Practice and Research includes specific actions that can be taken to partner with patients ...
This rubric was developed by Chris Dede, Ed.D., for Learning Point Associates (now a part of AIR) as part of Policy Issues No. 15, “Making Educational Technology Work: State Policies in the North Central Region” (January 2004). It can be used to assess a state’s implementation of educational technology policies ...
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.
What can be done right now to prevent firearms violence—from suicide, to rampages by those who are mentally ill, to acts of terrorism—without heavy reliance on the federal government? Patricia Campie suggests what states, cities, employers, and communities can do.
This research brief shares findings related to participants’ awareness of xenotransplantation as a potential future kidney transplant option in light of recent advancements. We also discuss what the participants perceived as the benefits and risks of xenotransplantation as well as their recommendations for when and how patients, families, and clinicians ...
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.1.1 measures the proportion of children and young people (a) in grades 2 and 3 and (b) at the end of primary school, achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading and mathematics. Globally, this important indicator receives substantial funding and attention from international agencies ...