Despite modest progress, maternal and child undernutrition remains a major health concern for many countries in the world and especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. With funding from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and CARE are leading the implementation of ...
On Thursday, March 10, 2016 the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) will hold its Ninth Annual Research Conference in Washington, DC. This year’s conference will bring together prominent education researchers and funders with policymakers and practitioners to have a dialogue about the types ...
Kim Gattis is a nationally recognized expert in large-scale mathematics assessments through her work at the state, national, and international levels. For over a decade she has led AIR projects supporting the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics. Currently ...
Christopher A. Cody is a principal researcher at AIR, where he works on the Education Statistics Services Institute Network project as director of the postsecondary administrative data division task. As director of the postsecondary administrative data division project, Dr. Cody also serves as a survey director for the Integrated Postsecondary ...
Signaling its continued commitment to providing research and solutions to improve our community and the world, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) – the world's largest behavioral and social science research organization – today announced that Cheryl Vince Whitman will be joining the organization in August as senior vice president. ...
Recent graduates of Virginia colleges who majored in nursing or business draw higher salaries in their first year out of college than their peers who earned degrees in history or English, according to an analysis of newly released data on the first year earnings of alumni. In some cases, those ...
AIR’s most recent study of school funding in New Hampshire, a collaboration with the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire, exemplifies how conventional and novel research methods can provide states with a deep understanding of the impact of school funding on student success. ...
Roddy Theobald is a managing researcher in the Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) at AIR. His primary responsibilities include overseeing eight externally-funded research projects related to the teacher labor market and its implications for student outcomes. He has extensive experience using large administrative datasets to ...
Jonathan A. Simonetta is Vice President, International Development at AIR. As Vice President, he mentors researchers, oversees projects, monitors overall project performance, and leads business development for our International Development Division.
The case for using toilets—less fecal pollution leads to better health—might seem self-evident, but 2.5 billion (according to United Nation’s estimates) of the world’s poorest still don’t have them. And it’s harder to press that case than might be imagined. After all, the causal link between fecal contamination ...