AIR is working on two projects funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focused on how to use measurement to drive transformative, meaningful, and sustainable change.
AIR Institute Fellow Robert “Bob” Kim served as deputy assistant secretary in the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education during the Obama administration. Terris Ross is a managing director for the AIR Equity Initiative who conducted and led numerous PreK-12 research and evaluation projects at the ...
AIR’s Center for Applied Research in Postsecondary Education (CARPE) tackles postsecondary education’s most pressing challenges by generating actionable insights and helping the field implement effective solutions. Meet CARPE's experts.
People with disabilities are an important part of the workforce, but make 63 cents for every dollar earned by a person without a disability—and that gap rises as educational attainment increases. On Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, the Institute for Educational Leadership and AIR led a discussion on the challenges that ...
In a project for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, AIR developed tools and strategies to help hospitals effectively engage patients and families, with the goal of improving safety in health care across the country. AIR developed the Strategic Vision Roadmap for Person and Family Engagement to help these ...
Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, director of AIR’s Center for Addiction Research and Effective Solutions (AIR CARES) and a practicing physician at Heartland Alliance Health in Chicago, discusses her personal experience in treating patients with addiction and how research can help tackle the opioid epidemic. ...
Many public and private initiatives are underway to collect and share genomic, personal, and medical data on a massive scale for research and clinical use. Through a National Human Genome Research Institute project, AIR supported the Baylor College of Medicine in using deliberative methods to obtain informed public input on ...
The 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) is a comprehensive measure that includes education and work histories, personal characteristics, and literacy skills data for 19,000 respondents. Findings from this study show that 30 million people in the United States lack the literacy skills needed to take full advantage of ...
Systems can work together to align their actions and decisionmaking. One way is through shared measurement: using a common set of measurable goals that reflect shared priorities across systems and with community members. With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, AIR explored how shared measurement helps systems and communities ...
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