Mónica L. Villalta, who served as Director of Diversity Programs for Kaiser Permanente of the Mid Atlantic States, has joined the American Institutes for Research (AIR) as its Director of Diversity and Inclusion. In this role, she will guide the nonprofit research organization's continuing efforts to enhance its services by ...
Researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and funders are increasingly aware of the powerful potential for summertime experiences and the need to design, implement, and continuously improve summertime experiences for all.
AIR) has been recognized as a “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion” by the Disability Equality Index®. The index is a comprehensive benchmarking tool that helps companies build a roadmap of measurable, tangible actions that they can take to achieve disability inclusion and equality.
Survey experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will present on a variety of methodological topics at the American Association for Public Opinion Research’s (AAPOR) 69th annual meeting, being held in Anaheim, California, May 15-18, 2014.
Implementation of sector strategies has been a focus of state and local workforce systems across the country, and evidence suggests there is an opportunity to strengthen and expand these efforts. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is partnering with AIR to develop an updated Sector Strategies ...
Through the AIR Equity Initiative, AIR has provided funding to generate and apply evidence on a community engagement program to change gendered practices and norms in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). AIR has partnered with Women for Women International (WfWI) to study the implementation and impact of WfWI’s ...
Researchers from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will give presentations on a broad range of education research topics during the Society for Research on Education Effectiveness (SREE) conference March 6-8, 2014 in Washington, D.C.
At 21, many foster youth “age out” of financial benefits and supports from the child welfare system—before they even finish college. Given the challenges they face, it’s not surprising that only 3 to 10 percent of them earn undergraduate degrees compared with 34 percent of young adults who weren’t in ...
Makini Nyanteh, a veteran communications leader who has worked in the private, public and non-profit sectors, has been named senior vice president and chief communications officer for AIR. For the past six years, Nyanteh has been AIR’s vice president for communications and public affairs, leading a reimagination of AIR’s mission, ...
AIR Institute Fellow Larry Hedges was recently named a recipient of the prestigious Yidan Prize for Education Research for his groundbreaking work in developing statistical methods for meta-analysis across the sciences and innovative methods of synthesizing research findings across studies.