The American Institutes for Research (AIR) has a broad range of experts in the areas of education and health who will be available to assist members of the news media in examining the implications of the federal budget proposal for the 2012 fiscal year that President Barack Obama will present ...
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) has received an APEX Award for Publication Excellence in recognition of the "overall communications effectiveness" of the content and writing that appears on the nonprofit research organization's website, www.air.org.
Patrick Riccards, executive director of Communications and Public Affairs for the American Institutes for Research (AIR), has been selected as the Professional of the Year in the nonprofit category by the 2011 Bulldog Stars of PR Awards in recognition of the exemplary communications efforts by AIR.
Dr. Sabrina Laine, a leading expert in teacher evaluation and a vice president at AIR, has been selected by the U.S. Department of Education to serve as a reviewer of applications by states seeking exemptions from provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act – enacted as part of the ...
How can research inform and improve literacy in the U.S. and around the world? In honor of International Literacy Day 2018, Terry Salinger, PhD, AIR’s chief scientist for literacy research, answered this question and more.
The Programme Haitien d'Appui à la Réforme de l'Education (PHARE) in Haiti is a USAID-funded, deliverables-based contract with AIR. PHARE is USAID's response to the Government of Haiti's effort to restore, sustain, and expand education and health services. PHARE's main objective is to reinforce the capacity of the Ministry of ...
The share of 16-to-24-year-old civilian, noninstitutionalized Americans who were not enrolled in high school and had not earned a high school diploma or alternative credential in 2013 was 6.8 percent, down from 14.1 percent in 1973, according to a new report by AIR for the U.S. Department of Education’s National ...
This CALDER Center paper examines the value of strategically assigning disproportionately larger classes to the strongest teachers in order to optimize student learning in the face of differential teacher effectiveness. The rationale is straightforward: Larger classes for the best teachers benefit the pupils who are reassigned to them; they also ...
Ashley Roberts is a senior researcher at AIR. She is the project director for the Federal Interagency Forums work at AIR which supports the production of the annual America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being report by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics and the Older Americans: ...
Jane Hannaway, a vice president at the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and director of the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), participated in a panel discussion on trends in student achievement that began an event announcing the winner of the 2011 Broad Prize for ...