Catherine E. Livingston, an attorney with broad experience working in the nonprofit and government sectors, will join the AIR as Chief Legal Officer, effective February 1. Livingston has most recently served as general counsel for the Open Society Foundations and as a partner for Jones Day, overseeing the law firm’s ...
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.
AIR has added two members to its Board of Directors with deep expertise in the areas of the health and education. Alicia Harkness, a national leader in the public health sector, and Kim Pattillo Brownson, an education policy expert and lawyer, joined the Board earlier this year.
AIR works around the globe to build evidence to improve the quality and relevance of programs and initiatives in developing countries to ensure equitable access for all.
Low response may render a probability sample that behaves like a nonprobability sample. As an alternative, a random replacement strategy for unbiased estimation with appropriate selection probabilities along with a nonresponse model is proposed based on the idea of reserve samples of size one, which can be viewed as follow-ups ...
The Native American and Alaska Native Children in School discretionary grants program aims to reduce the persistent achievement gap between Native American and Alaska Native youth and their peers in reading and English language arts and college readiness in reading. This qualitative study examined the types of activities grantees funded, ...
David Myers, President and CEO of the American Institutes for Research, sent a message to AIR staff on Jan. 6, 2021, after rioters broke into the U.S. Capitol. This is a revised version of that statement.
In this video, Dr. Mark Schneider, a vice president at AIR, discusses his work on the earning power of first-year graduates from colleges and universities. In general, the findings show that a student’s school and major can make a big difference in what they earn.
On Wednesday, February 6, 2013, Kristin Carman and Jill Mathews Yegian, co-directors of AIR’s Health Policy and Research Group, participated in a briefing hosted by Health Affairs, a leading journal of health policy thought and research.
Dr. Julia Lane, an internationally recognized economist and Institute Fellow at AIR, has been elected by her peers at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as a Fellow. The honor recognizes her contributions to innovation, education and scientific leadership.