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Making Workforce Development Work for All: Five Themes from Our Panel Discussion

During the Bridges Toward Equity: Making Workforce Development Work for All roundtable event, a panel of AIR and community experts ...
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Meet the Expert: Kathleen Murphy

Kathleen Murphy, Ph.D., is a principal investigator for AIR’s Center on Knowledge Translation for Disability and Rehabilitation Research. She also ...
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Research-Based Resources to Help People with Chronic Pain and Health Care Providers Navigate Pain Management and Opioid Use

For people who rely on opioids and experience chronic pain or disability, treatment options are neither simple nor straightforward. AIR ...

Featured Work

How NAEP’s Oral Reading Fluency Study Informs Literacy Instruction

In this Q&A, AIR researchers discuss the findings of the 2018 NAEP Oral Reading Fluency Study, which were released this year. They offer their insights into how policymakers, education leaders, and teacher preparation and professional learning programs can use the findings to strengthen literacy instruction.

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Supporting Up-and-Coming Researchers and Practitioners

Over four days, 66 doctoral students from a variety of backgrounds engaged with AIR experts, Institute Fellows, and one another about how to design surveys anchored in cultural and linguistic knowledge, skills, and values as part of AIR's Pipeline Partnership Program.

Standards for Economic Evaluations Address a ‘Glaring Need’

AIR’s Standards for the Economic Evaluation of Educational and Social Programs aim to help decisionmakers optimize the use of limited resources to improve outcomes. AIR experts discuss why the standards were developed, how they can be used, and what makes them particularly relevant now.

Catching Up After COVID

As schools prepare to welcome students and educators back for the 2021-2022 school year, there are a number of pandemic-related issues to address and consider. Our experts offer their insights into these crucial issues and we provide some links to helpful resources and information.