Robert V. Mayo is a senior technical assistance consultant at AIR. Dr. Mayo currently serves as project director for the Cleveland Humanware/SEL and Cleveland Discipline Policy and Data analysis projects. He also serves as a Title 1 Part D TA Liaison and co-lead facilitator of the Supportive School Discipline Community ...
The AIR Equity Initiative supports the Pipeline Partnership Program which engages with graduate-level students and faculty to build a more diverse group of research and technical assistance experts inside and beyond AIR. By working with Georgia State University in Atlanta; Howard University in Washington, D.C.; and The University of Texas ...
The American Institutes for Research, one of the nation’s largest independent research organizations, announced today that it has acquired Sutton Group, a nationally recognized social marketing and communication firm based in Washington, D.C.
As new technologies emerge, there is a growing perception that schools must utilize the latest technologies. This brief’s authors conducted evaluations of two large-scale technology initiatives and here share six lessons learned about common pitfalls during early stages of implementation.
Over the past decade, a number of reform efforts have aimed at reducing the size of the learning communities in the nation’s schools. This paper describes the framework underlying our evaluation design of a large-scale, multifaceted school reform initiative and identifies some of the methodological challenges inherent in work of ...
Governors are called upon to lead and improve their states' education systems, addressing a number of diverse and changing issues. In this open letter, AIR's Angela Minnici, director of the Education Policy Center and the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders, sets out seven action steps for 2015 to help ...
Dominique Bradley is a senior researcher at AIR and deputy director for the Long Beach Network for School Improvement. She serves as the qualitative research lead for evaluations of the Community Schools Initiative, Full Service Community Schools and Sustainable Community Schools for Chicago Public Schools and the research lead and ...
Mary Kay Dugan is a managing technical assistant consultant at AIR. She is passionate about identifying evidence-based promising practices and translating them into policies and effective programs focused on underserved populations including disadvantaged youth and young adults. Dugan has over 30 years of experience helping federal, state, and local governments ...
Experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will discuss workplace and career issues during the 28th annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), which is being held April 11-13, 2013 in Houston, TX.
Daniel C. Montoya, a leading healthcare communications executive and former executive director of the U.S. Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS, has joined the American Institutes for Research (AIR) to lead the organization's expanding efforts to apply research to practice in helping health providers and consumers. He is director ...