The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly disrupted education system across the country and around the world, changing what classrooms and learning look like on a day-to-day basis. Educators are navigating a constantly shifting landscape, with the health of students, teachers, and the community at large at stake. Explore our research, resources, and webinar recordings to better understand the challenges teachers are facing and find tools and resources educators can use as they move forward.

U.S. fourth- and eighth-grade students made long-term achievement gains in mathematics, but not in science, according to the U.S. results on the 2019 Trends in Mathematics and Science Study. In this Q&A, AIR’s Tad Johnston, senior technical assistance consultant and a math specialist, and Danielle Ferguson, researcher and a science specialist, offer their insights on what these trends tell us and how educators make practical use of the results.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic put extraordinary pressures on the U.S. economy, a number of disruptive shifts complicated workforce stability and preparation. AIR's Workforce Development and Economic Mobility/Prosperity Working Group conducted a series of analyses to better understand current economic dynamics. Here are the key takeaways and guideposts for building a strong, enduring workforce system.

To help people with disabilities and their health care providers work together to manage chronic pain, AIR experts, with funding from NIDILRR, developed the Knowledge Hub. The hub is a collection of resources designed to support working with a healthcare provider to create a pain management plan, discuss ways to manage pain, and work together for safer opioid use.

As the number of telehealth services increased during the COVID-19 public health emergency, so did concerns that such expansion may lead to an increase in fraud and abuse, particularly within the Medicare program. To ascertain whether this increase has been associated with the unnecessary or excessive use of healthcare, health policy researchers from IMPAQ, Index Analytics, and AIR reviewed the accuracy of claims that increased use of telehealth is likely to increase fraud and abuse.