Mayra E. Alvarez is president of The Children's Partnership, a nonprofit advocacy organization working to advance child health equity by ensuring all children have the resources and opportunities they need to grow up healthy and thrive. In 2021, she was named by President Biden to the COVID-19 Health Equity Task ...
The Cal Hospital Compare website features quality and performance information on California hospitals to help healthcare consumers make smarter and more informed choices when making medical decisions. AIR obtains, analyzes, and formats the data to enable simple, understandable report card materials and displays for consumers. ...
Thomas de Hoop directs a research and evaluation portfolio with a focus on the impact, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of self-help groups, savings groups, and education innovations in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
The American Institutes for Research is hosting a two-day TeamSTEPPS Collaborative Conference on team training in health care on May 1-2, 2007 at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. The conference brings together early adopters of the TeamSTEPPS training program to create partnerships that will promote research and develop team training ...
Experts from AIR will present at several sessions during the 74th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, to be held May 16-19, 2019, at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel in Toronto, Ontario. AIR experts will present on several topics on survey methodology and data science and ...
The American Institutes for Research brings together deep expertise and broad capabilities to find innovative answers to today's challenges across a wide array of topics, from education and child welfare, to public health and mental well-being, to workforce opportunities and international development. ...
Micro-credentials are quick competency-based certifications that illustrate mastery of a skill. This research brief describes the existing research on micro-credentials, Leadership for Equity micro-credential content, the analytical approach that informed this research, and findings from interviews with principals. ...
Algebra I is a critical gateway course for high school graduation and enrollment in college. These briefs summarize research on five strategies being implemented by U.S. Department of Education’s High School Graduation Initiative grantees to help struggling students succeed in Algebra I.
AIR experts will discuss a broad range of topics including teacher professional development, school safety, early college high schools, the performance of U.S. students and their international peers, social and emotional conditions of learning, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) findings, and school improvement. ...
The initiatives to enhance adult learning program accountability and assessment systems of the following states are described in this paper: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Oregon, Texas, Washington, West Virginia.