In collaboration with our partners, government leaders, and field experts, AIR has worked to strengthen the evidence base, provide evidence-backed equity resources, and support equal access to programs that can help people and communities thrive.
Iris Daruwala is a senior researcher at AIR, where she works with foundations and federal, state, and local agencies on research and evaluation projects. Her work is primarily focused on understanding how educational interventions and reforms can reduce inequities among marginalized student groups and support whole child well-being. As an ...
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Jennifer Pirtle is a principal technical assistance consultant at AIR with 25 years of experience in the workforce and economic development field. She serves as project director for several projects in AIR’s Workforce Development Program and Policy Division, including the U.S. Department of Labor’s Real-Time State and Regional TA project, ...
The Condition of Education 2014, the latest edition of a congressionally mandated annual report on the developments and trends in all levels of U.S. education, finds that about 11 percent of undergraduates take distance education courses exclusively. AIR played a major role in producing the report, which is published by ...
AIR experts will participate in the 2014 annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), held March 10-15, 2014 in Toronto, Canada, at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel.
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) this week released the annual Condition of Education report, a congressionally mandated compendium of multiple data points about all levels of education. AIR provided technical and editorial support for the report, including improvements that make the data more accessible and easier for policymakers, ...
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 ...
The AIR study for the first time uses the standards set by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) - known as the nation's "report card" - to measure how U.S. students compare in mathematics and science with students in foreign countries, based on data in the Third International Mathematics ...
A new report issued jointly by AIR and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) finds that three out of four Generation Y (Gen Y) teachers support the idea of more rigorous and frequent feedback from their principals and peers on the effectiveness of their instruction.