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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 ...
David Myers, President and CEO of the American Institutes for Research, sent a message to AIR staff on Jan. 6, ...
Conducting research and providing technical assistance in developing countries has long been challenging and unpredictable. Here, experts from AIR and ...
Educators have faced numerous obstacles to meaningfully engaging students during the global coronavirus pandemic. Initially, these were practical, including providing ...
This commentary by Amanda Latimore appeared in the Baltimore Sun on December 4, 2020. "With most states now much higher ...
With COVID-19 still affecting in-person education across the country, early childhood educators have had to find new ways to give ...
In a study for the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences, AIR evaluated the effects of an adaptive text ...
The Readiness Projects—a partnership of the Forum for Youth Investment, the National Urban League, and AIR—advances work informed by science ...
AIR believes that personalized learning efforts must have critical foundational elements, build in the relevant essential hallmarks, and opportunities to ...
The COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented school closures throughout the United States, prompting educators to search for ways to meet the ...
Rural school districts, educators, and students have different experiences than their urban and suburban counterparts. The Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) ...
Countries such as Bangladesh and Mozambique have made universal access to pre-primary education a priority in recent years. Other countries ...
Longstanding systemic health and social inequities have put Americans categorized as racial and ethnic minorities at greater risk of getting ...