Over-policing practices contribute to racial disparities in arrest and detainment and can escalate violence and trauma to those arrested, their family members, and their communities. To reduce over-policing and its disproportionate impacts on individuals of color and their communities, policymakers are increasingly embedding community voice into the policing and justice ...
Mauricio Estrada Matute is a Senior Researcher at AIR. He has 16 years of experience supporting education in low- and middle-income countries by providing technical assistance and capacity building on designing, implementing, analysing, and disseminating results of educational assessments.Estrada Matute performs psychometric and statistical analyses required for reporting and interpretation of ...
Since 2007, the MTSS Center has been a national leader in supporting states, districts, and schools across the country in implementing tiered support systems that address students’ academic, behavioral, social, and emotional needs.
Kelly J. Devers is vice president of health market strategy and business development at AIR. She is also serving as interim deputy director of AIR’s Health Division. She has 30 years of experience conducting health services and policy research and is a widely recognized expert in alternative payment models, the ...
Erika Kessler, Ph.D., is a researcher at AIR with expertise in climate change and environmental education and employing advanced statistical analysis techniques with large-scale, complex survey data.Dr. Kessler brings a breadth of work experience and expertise across a diverse array of topics to AIR. She has particular interest and experience in the ...
Despite recent gains in such educational indicators as student enrollment and completion rates, Nicaragua’s primary education system still faced serious challenges with respect to access and quality of education. Project EXCELENCIA focused on strengthening the quality of education at the primary school level in Nicaragua. ...
The Zambian Ministry of Education’s 2002 “Education for All” policy provided access to education for thousands of children, many coming from lower socioeconomic levels. The inclusive, equitable policy greatly benefited vulnerable children, especially girls, but it also challenged the education sector by flooding schools with more pupils than the system ...