John Spence is a senior technical assistance consultant at AIR. He has over 17 years of experience directing large-scale initiatives in public education with a solid track record of expanding operations, initiating and maintaining strategic partnerships, managing technical assistance and professional development for educators, developing and sustaining meaningful relationships with ...
Incorporating work-based learning into the curriculum as part of a career and technical education program may improve students’ readiness for college and careers. This study will provide the first causal evidence on the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of Virtual Enterprises, a year-long course in which students run a virtual firm. ...
Santiago Munevar Salazar is a monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) specialist at AIR, directing the Equity and Cash Transfers in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia project, which focuses on reducing exclusion errors and promoting the inclusion of poor people with multiple identities in cash transfer programs. He also leads the MEL ...
The Iowa Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Program Improvement Grant is a partnership of three state departments (Education, Public Health, and Human Rights); national consultants (David Osher, Roger Weissberg, and Gene Hall); and Iowa’s 12 intermediate education agencies.
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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.
Alka Arora is a senior researcher at AIR with more than 15 years of experience in large-scale comparative studies of educational achievement. In her current position, she provides technical and psychometric support for the development of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) across all NAEP subjects. Additionally, she provides content ...
Defining overall quality measures of physician performance with respect to chronic disease management and preventive care for older adults and to define strategies for quality improvement and physician recognition programs.
AIR developed and pilot tested a consumer assessment survey instrument for adults to provide information about the quality of TRICARE dental benefits as reported by enrollees in the TRICARE Dental Program (TDP) and the TRICARE Retiree Dental Program (TRDP).
Every year, the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics releases an annual report, America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being. AIR subject matter experts have identified some interesting findings from several indicators in the 2019 report’s education domain and explain why they matter. ...