Eighth-grade students who are "algebra ready" and take an online Algebra I course because their schools do not offer the class, outperform their peers in algebra knowledge and are twice as likely to take advanced mathematics classes in high school. The findings are in a rigorous new federally funded study ...
Education technology experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will present at the Consortium for School Networking’s (CoSN) 2012 K-12 Technology Leadership Conference, which will be held March 5-7, 2012, in Washington, DC.
For the first time in Oregon history, blind students now have access to the state's online adaptive test system. The new OAKS Online Braille Interface, designed by Oregon's test vendor and partner American Institutes for Research, allows Oregon's blind students to access the same online test and the same ...
Experts with the American Institutes for Research (AIR) are available to offer education and health care insights on issues raised by President Barack Obama during his State of the Union address, including his call to use education to better prepare Americans for the workplace.
Kelsey Walter is a senior researcher at AIR. She specializes in research and evaluation of policies and programs serving older adults, individuals with physical disabilities, individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities, and people receiving Medicaid home and community-based services. She has over 15 years of project leadership experience working in ...
Susan Baseman is a vice president at AIR. Her primary responsibility is administrative oversight and management of a multi-year contract: Technical Assistance to Support the Learning and Diffusions Activities at the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI).
Dr. Baseman has more than 30 years of experience in health care as ...
Marian Thacher is a senior researcher at AIR. She currently works with the California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project (CALPRO), the statewide professional development system for adult education in California. She manages the development of communities of practice, online professional development courses, and webinars for adult educators. She is also ...
Kathleen L. Pfannenstiel is a senior researcher at AIR and provides technical assistance and professional development to states and school districts with an emphasis on improving results for students with disabilities. Dr. Pfannenstiel is the principle investigator for an Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) model demonstration grant. She works ...
A new series of papers by AIR reexamines a perennial policy question, particularly in an election season: Is Medicare sustainable? Led by Marilyn Moon, director of AIR’s Center on Aging and a former public trustee of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, the papers conclude that several claims at ...
Jonathan A. Simonetta is Vice President, International Development at AIR. As Vice President, he mentors researchers, oversees projects, monitors overall project performance, and leads business development for our International Development Division.