Experts from AIR and IMPAQ will present at several sessions during the annual Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) research conference, being held virtually November 11-13, 2020. Staff will contribute to 21 live sessions on a variety of conference tracks, including Health; Education; Natural Resource, Energy and Environmental ...
Literacy is a fundamental skill that serves as the foundation for an individual’s future learning and, collectively, for a country’s social and economic development. The USAID/LAC Reads Capacity Program aims to increase the impact, scale, and sustainability of early grade reading interventions in the Latin American and Caribbean region through ...
Developing and implementing a national educational assessment system for monitoring and supporting quality of education is a key investment for ensuring that quality goals of education in Bangladesh will be reached as planned. AIR provides technical assistance to the Ministry of Education in Bangladesh in developing, analyzing, and reporting national ...
Developing strong literacy skills early on sets the foundation for all future learning. Students entering primary school in developing countries often struggle when learning to read for various reasons: formal education systems lack resources, teachers are not well prepared, classes are overflowing, children enter school with very little exposure to ...
California's Health Care Quality Report Cards are designed to help inform and educate consumers about their rights and responsibilities as health plan enrollees and to educate them about how to use services offered by their health plans. AIR assists the National Committee on Quality Assurance in supporting the California Office ...
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.
This linking study shows that NAEP Grade 4 reading achievement levels are higher than the PIRLS international benchmarks, providing one piece of validity evidence that NAEP results are internationally competitive.
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.
AIR assisted the Veterans Health Administration's Office of Quality Performance when they changed the content of their Survey of Healthcare Experiences of Patients to surveys modeled on the CAHPS Inpatient and Clinician-Group surveys.