Elizabeth Grant and Stacey Jordan, who served as senior policy officials with the U.S. Department of Education, have joined the American Institutes for Research (AIR) as members of AIR's Education Program.
Experts in health policy research at AIR will participate in discussions ranging from making healthcare more consumer focused to reducing healthcare-associated infections during the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) annual conference, being held September 9-11, 2012 in Bethesda, M.D. ...
Key U.S. data in Education at a Glance 2015, a report released today in Paris, relied on the work of the AIR. For the first time, the report is accompanied by select subnational data, enabling researchers and policymakers to determine how U.S. states stack up against the 33 other OECD ...
Experts for the American Institutes for Research will be giving presentations at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) taking place April 10-12, 2008 at the San Francisco, Calif., Hilton Hotel.
Evidence plays a critical role in designing and implementing approaches that accelerate learning and provide all students with equal access to a quality education. This blog post describes some of what AIR has learned about the approaches in the federal agenda.
Jessica Heppen, a nationally recognized expert in education research, policy, and practice, is the president & CEO of AIR. Dr. Heppen been with AIR for 20 years and, in that time, has held several key roles during her tenure.
Shattering the myth that U.S. students score substantially above other countries in science in 4th and 8th grades, but then fall precipitously to below average in the 10th grade, a new study by AIR shows there is actually a steady decline, not a sudden drop, in performance as students progress ...
As part of the ED-LINKS Pakistan – U.S. Student Exchange Program, run by the American Institutes for Research (AIR), 26 Pakistani middle-school girls between the ages of 13 and 16 met with Congresswoman Nita Lowey of New York on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009 in Washington, D.C. The program is part ...