Heppen made the list of the city's top policy influencers for efforts shaping education reform American Institutes for Research (AIR) President and CEO Jessica Heppen has been named one of Washingtonian Magazine’s 500 Most Influential People in Washington, D.C. for 2024. The annual list highlights leading experts and advocates outside the ...
A multidisciplinary team of experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will participate in the 2023 What Works Global Summit (WWGS) from October 18–20 in Ottawa, Canada. This year’s conference theme, Evidence for Global Challenges, aligns closely with AIR’s commitment to generating evidence that can be used by global ...
Staff from AIR will discuss a wide range of education issues, from implementing standards and assessment in countries like Honduras, Egypt and Nicaragua to community empowerment and teacher professional development during presentations at the annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) May 1-5, 2011, in Montreal, Quebec, ...
In their new book, “Making College Work: Pathways to Success for Disadvantaged Students,” Harry J. Holzer and Sandy Baum discuss ways in which education researchers and policymakers can work to ensure more successful outcomes for students from disadvantaged backgrounds who attend college. The book addresses key issues that students from ...
Nationally-recognized business leaders Edward Hamburg and Andrew Liakopoulos have joined the Board of Directors of the American Institutes for Research (AIR), a leading behavioral and social science research organization, effective immediately.
Experts from AIR played a key role in preparing a new report released June 23, 2011, by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). "Achievement Gaps: How Hispanic and White Students in Public Schools Perform in Mathematics and Reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress" provides detailed information on ...
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.
AIR experts will present on a variety of mental health and trauma topics at the 21st Annual Conference on Advancing School Mental Health, taking place September 29 to October 1 in San Diego, Calif. The theme of the conference is “Shaping the Future of School Mental Health: Advancing Quality and ...