Medicare expert and Institute Fellow Marilyn Moon offers her thoughts on program reforms and urges new HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell to defend beneficiaries against unintended harm: “never forget that Medicare is a program for the elderly and disabled.”
The Center on Aging addresses the many research and policy issues that arise in this context, using a broad brush that spans AIR’s subject areas and methodological reach. The Center serves AIR’s mission of improving the lives of the disadvantaged by bringing attention to aging issues and concerns, building on ...
Over a million adults participate in programs each year that are designed to improve their literacy, English proficiency, and other foundational skills that will prepare them for further education and rewarding jobs. The Collaborative Research for Educating Adults with Technology Enhancements (CREATE Adult Skills Network) is designed to facilitate the ...
Unprecedented interagency sharing of individual-level data has allowed the first in-depth assessment on the use and outcomes of the Post-9/11 GI Bill across all military branches. Experts from AIR conducted the study with researchers from the Census Bureau and the Veterans Administration’s National Center for Veterans Analysis & Statistics. ...
U.S. businesses are facing challenges filling so-called “middle-skills” jobs in trades, telecommunications, health care, IT, and similar professions. Career and Technical Education (CTE) is an existing and promising pathway that can address this gap.
Postsecondary administrators interested in serving parenting adult learners need to know more about them and the supports they need in their pursuit and completion of postsecondary credentials. This project leverages new data from AIR’s recent survey of adult learners and one-on-one interviews with a subset of parenting adult learners. ...
An AIR report finds that Pennsylvania’s system for financing public schools severely underfunds many of the state’s highest need urban and rural public school districts. The report found that the average levels of both school spending and student achievement in Pennsylvania are above the national average, but fail to meet ...
In a longitudinal, quasi-experimental study that spanned more than a decade, AIR found that attending a high school with an explicit focus on deeper learning resulted in positive short-term outcomes, but few longer-term outcomes. In this Q&A, AIR Principal Researcher Kristina Zeiser and Senior Researcher Catherine Bitter share insights about ...
The White House and U.S. Department of Education are celebrating today two federal education technology initiatives undertaken by AIR. The Office of Educational Technology released the 2016 National Education Technology Plan on the one-year anniversary of Future Ready, an effort to increase digital learning opportunities. The plan, written for educators, ...
Parents, teachers, schools, districts, states, and especially students all want schools that prepare graduates to thrive in the 21st century. In this blog post, Anne Mishkind asks what it means to be "college and career ready."