On August 31, 2022, AIR presented Housing as a Social Determinant of Addiction, the fifth webinar in a series from AIR CARES. The webinar focused on gaps in funding for programs to address homelessness and housing instability, the collateral consequences of punitive housing policies for people who use drugs, and ...
Many students throughout the developing world struggle with reading, and some 250 million children are still unable to read a single word after having been in school for up to four years. In this video, Pooja Reddy Nakamura explains the role that language and multilingualism plays in the global learning ...
Jim Lindsay is a principal researcher with AIR. As a leader with the Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, Dr. Lindsay designed and led large-scale studies on the implementation and impact of educational interventions, including Ramp-Up to Readiness (a college readiness intervention) and the Content Literacy Continuum (an adolescent literacy intervention). Dr. ...
CS@AIR supports several alliances, consortia, and communities of practice. We serve various roles depending on the focus, organization, and membership, including as a facilitator, expert consultant, or evaluator.
A recent special issue in the Journal of Drug and Alcohol Dependence highlights findings from three decades of research on the Good Behavior Game and its impact on a variety of long term behavioral and mental health outcomes.
At CS@AIR, we believe that computer science is both an academic discipline and a fundamental literacy in the 21st century. Our experts build, use, and leverage evidence to ensure that every student gets access to inclusive and high-quality computer science education.
More than 90 education experts from AIR will be sharing evidence and insights from their research and policy work at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, being held April 11-14 in Philadelphia. AIR experts will present on a wide variety of topics, including career and technical education (CTE); educational ...
Experts with AIR will present a variety of education research and finance sessions during the 46th annual Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) conference, taking place virtually March 17-20, 2021. This year’s conference theme is “Promoting Equity and Opportunity Through Education Policy Research,” and is designed to facilitate collaborations ...
Sol Pelavin served as president and chief executive officer of AIR from 2001-2010, after serving as AIR’s executive vice president, chief operating officer, and chief financial officer. Prior to joining AIR, he founded the Pelavin Associates education research firm in 1982. It was acquired by AIR in 1994 to form ...
AIR assisted the National Center for Education Statistics in producing Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2018. As part of its work, AIR staff developed 14 of the 16 update indicators in the report and authored two of the three spotlights, including Use, Availability, and Perceived Harmfulness of Opioids Among ...