Kelsey Walter is a senior researcher at AIR. She specializes in research and evaluation of policies and programs serving older adults, individuals with physical disabilities, individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities, and people receiving Medicaid home and community-based services. She has over 15 years of project leadership experience working in ...
Ascendium Education Group has partnered with AIR to support this initiative to identify and scale programmatic technical assistance in Higher Education in Prison (HEP).
Sandeep Shetty is a senior data scientist in the Data Science and Advanced Analytics group program at AIR. He is an applied labor economist and an econometrician with experience in program evaluation, policy simulation, machine learning, text mining, and analysis. He has extensive experience in working with large datasets (structured ...
For adult learners with dependent children, pursuing postsecondary education is complicated. An AIR study explores the fact that better supporting adult learners means making significant changes to the learner experience at postsecondary institutions, and in this blog the researchers focus specifically on findings that are particularly meaningful for parenting adult ...
This report, authored by AIR and funded by the HOPE Foundation, introduces the school reform model, describes the study methodology, presents findings for each of the three research questions explored, and discusses the implications for the intervention and additional research.
Overall, performance of low-performing schools (both those participating and not participating in the HPSGP) is improving in an era in which state and federal accountability systems have been introduced.
Betheny Lyke is a principal technical assistance consultant at AIR. Dr. Lyke brings a wealth of experience and vision to her role as principal consultant of the District and School Improvement Center at the American Institutes for Research as one who understands the demands of school and district administrators. As the ...
Alan Krueger, the award-winning Princeton economist who has served on the American Institutes for Research Board of Directors since 2002, was appointed to serve as assistant secretary of economic policy at the U.S. Treasury Department.
This document describes the common goals and shared values between systems of care and child welfare, explains why child welfare should be involved in systems of care, and lists the benefits to child welfare from participating as part of a system of care.
Parents, teachers, schools, districts, states, and especially students all want schools that prepare graduates to thrive in the 21st century. In this blog post, Anne Mishkind asks what it means to be "college and career ready."