Susan Muenchow is a principal researcher at AIR. She has experience in research and technical assistance in the area of child development, with a special focus on state and local initiatives related to early learning and care.
Read our conversation with Susan Muenchow about early childhood care costs and choices
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Dr. David Osher, a vice president at the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and an expert on issues involving children's social and emotional development and learning, will be the featured speaker on October 18 at the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education (DLC) in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada as ...
Unlike the K-12 school system, the preschool system does not maintain unique child identifiers, making it difficult to impossible to track children’s enrollment in child care. This needs assessment of preschool supply and demand in the state of California uses existing public data sources to estimate, by county and zip ...
This webinar will include two studies that demonstrate costs of scaled-up livelihoods and health interventions, delivered through women’s group programming. The session will specifically explore economies of scale and cost-effectiveness of a Self-Help Group program in India.
Chelsea Newton is a TA consultant in the Human Services Division at AIR. In this role, she provides assistance to states and territories as it relates to compliance with the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. She also serves as a training and technical assistance consultant with the CDC's DASH ...
On June 7, 2023, The COVID-19 and Equity in Education (CEE) initiative hosted the second Research Spotlight webinar of this series, a discussion with two researchers from the University of California–Davis about research approaches to Black girls’ well-being and Latino academic resilience.
The initiatives to enhance adult learning program accountability and assessment systems of the following states are described in this paper: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Oregon, Texas, Washington, West Virginia.
Assessing access to early care and education is a key first step in any policy improvement initiative. In part because of the diverse delivery system for early childhood programs in the U.S., there is no single source of data on the availability of programs much less on the enrollment in ...
The AIR Center for Addiction Research and Effective Solutions (AIR CARES) is a multi-disciplinary center dedicated to preventing and reducing the negative consequences of substance misuse.
Traditional methods for quantifying malnutrition in children involve physical handling of subjects, can be time-consuming, and are susceptible to inaccuracy because they require enumerators to interpret the value. AIR developed an application called Methods for Extremely Rapid Observation of Nutritional Status (MERON) that allows for a non-invasive, time efficient, and ...