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Jaleh Soroui leads the AIR team that provides expertise, technical assistance, and management for the U.S. Department of Education’s National ...
Melissa Hafner is a health policy researcher at AIR. Prior to joining AIR, she conducted health research at Mathematica Policy ...
Living with a serious medical condition can be frightening and isolating for children. SeriousFun Children’s Network offers camps that “create ...
Contributing and working alongside Native Nations, AIR has a deep commitment to engaging communities, fostering shared vision and values, building ...
Kathleen Murphy, Ph.D., is a principal investigator for AIR’s Center on Knowledge Translation for Disability and Rehabilitation Research. She also ...
During the Bridges Toward Equity: Making Workforce Development Work for All roundtable event, a panel of AIR and community experts ...
For people who rely on opioids and experience chronic pain or disability, treatment options are neither simple nor straightforward. AIR ...
Despite its benefits in preventing opioid overdoses, stigma and fear have prevented naloxone from being more widely distributed, and the ...
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 ...