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In this Q&A, AIR's Bitnara Jasmine Park, Abigail Foley, and Rebecca Bates discuss the findings of the 2018 NAEP Oral ...
In his 25+ years running medium- and large-scale surveys in Africa, Mehari Belachew has learned to expect the unexpected. In ...
AIR’s Standards for the Economic Evaluation of Educational and Social Programs aim to help decisionmakers optimize the use of limited ...
In this personal essay, AIR Principal Researcher Patricia Garcia-Arena shares her memories of being an English learner in preschool and ...
With a new round of COVID-19 relief funds headed to states and districts nationwide, education leaders have a rare opportunity ...
Researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and funders are increasingly aware of the powerful potential for summertime experiences and the need to design, ...
U.S. fourth- and eighth-grade students made long-term achievement gains in mathematics, but not in science, according to the U.S. results ...
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic put extraordinary pressures on the U.S. economy, a number of disruptive shifts complicated workforce stability ...
As more students return to in-person learning, education leaders are working not only to rebuild school communities and help students ...
AIR partnered with Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) and the Partnership for Children and Youth to create resources that ...
Amanda Latimore, Ph.D., led AIR’s Center for Addiction Research and Effective Solutions (AIR CARES). She also teaches social epidemiology ...
Principals impact student achievement through their influence on classroom instruction, organizational conditions, community support, and setting the teaching and learning ...
Despite promising vaccine trial data, some individuals, particularly Black Americans and people living in rural areas, remain hesitant to be ...
Considering the decline in preventive care services and the continuing pandemic, it is important that health care providers ensure that ...
AIR’s most recent study of school funding in New Hampshire, a collaboration with the Carsey School of Public Policy at ...
COVID-19 has profoundly disrupted K–12 schooling. A working paper from AIR’s National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education ...
Teacher shortages are widely reported across the United States. But is there more to the story? Research sheds light on ...
The Preschool Development Grant Birth Through Five initiative supports states to create plans to facilitate collaboration and coordination among existing ...
The science of learning and development (SoLD) is a cross-disciplinary body of knowledge that describes how people learn and develop. ...
Besides the direct impact of COVID-19 on daily life, the pandemic has affected how individuals approach their personal health and ...