The Affordable Care Act created health insurance exchanges or marketplaces to offer consumers affordable healthcare coverage through subsidies. In this video interview, Brandy Farrar, AIR researcher, explains what Californian consumers think about their experiences with Covered California, their state's health insurance marketplace. ...
AIR's versatile team of survey, sampling, and data acquisition experts offers clients access to the latest in survey methodology, sampling methods, psychometrics, data storage and access, privacy protection, and data security expertise.
AIR and Herrera Consulting Group, LLC examined program implementation and outcomes for the YMCA’s Reach & Rise® program, which provides training to community-based volunteer adults to help them better understand youth development, CBT techniques, and tools for applying these techniques effectively.
Donna Warthan is a senior technical consultant at AIR. Her primary responsibilities include managing the overall project and budget for four federal School Improvement Grant projects in Virginia and New York. In this work, she assists the district and schools in corrective action use data to develop concrete action plans ...
Yinmei Wan is a senior researcher at AIR. She has expertise in designing and implementing rigorous educational research and evaluation projects. Dr. Wan has played integral roles in various research projects around educator quality. She works on the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Midwest team and leads the research effort for ...
Ashley Pierson is a senior researcher in the Education Systems and Policy, Human Services program at AIR. She has over 15 years of experience conducting applied research, including experimental, quasi-experimental, and mixed-methods studies. Dr. Pierson is a certified reviewer under What Works Clearinghouse Group Design Standards (Version 5.0). She brings ...
Heather Quick, a managing research scientist at AIR, has more than 15 years of experience leading research and evaluation studies of early care and education program quality, school readiness, family engagement, and teacher professional development. Dr. Quick is currently principal investigator of a statewide impact study of California’s Transitional Kindergarten ...
Through the Comprehensive Centers Program, the U.S. Department of Education awards discretionary grants for centers to provide capacity-building technical assistance to states and school districts in their design and implementation of evidence-based policies, practices, programs, and interventions that improve instruction and student achievement and outcomes. AIR has operated comprehensive centers ...
Douglas Fuchs is an Institute Fellow at AIR. He is also Professor of Special Education and Nicholas Hobbs Chair of Special Education and Human Development and Professor Pediatrics in the Vanderbilt University Medical School, Department of Special Education. At Vanderbilt, Fuchs has been principal investigator of 50 federally-sponsored research grants. ...
The Women's Collective is sponsoring a screening and discussion of deepsouth, a documentary about the rural American South and the people who inhabit its most quiet corners. Beneath layers of history, poverty, and now soaring HIV infections, three Americans redefine traditional Southern values to create their own solutions to survive. ...