AIR has been awarded a five-year, federal contract, consisting of a base year and four option years, to provide continued support for the evaluation, review, and maintenance of qualified health plans (QHP) offered on the Marketplace exchange through the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
AIR Institute Fellows Doug Fuchs and Lynn Fuchs have been awarded the 2021 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and the McGraw Family Foundation. The prize was established in 1988 to celebrate innovation in education by recognizing individuals who have ...
Dr. Patricia Campie is a principal researcher in the Human Services program at AIR. Utilizing 27 years of experience, Dr. Campie’s primary research focus is on preventing and reducing lethal violence among youth and young adults in the United States and other countries, serving as AIR’s P.I. for USAID’s Center for ...
Despite a widely held belief that U.S. students do well in mathematics in grade school but decline precipitously in high school, a new study comparing the math skills of students in industrialized nations finds that U.S. students in 4th and 8th grade perform consistently below most of their peers around ...
AIR will operate a national survey system that assesses consumers’ experiences with the Health Insurance Marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act, and the qualified health plans sold on them. AIR won a five-year contract from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to update, validate, process, score, ...
As the United States moves toward developing common education standards in reading and mathematics, a new report by AIR examines the composite standards in mathematics used in grades 1-6 by three Asian countries with high-performing students – Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore.
English learner (EL) students who do not attain English proficiency and grade-level mastery of academic content by the middle and upper grades are at risk of dropping out of high school or failing to graduate. To better understand the factors that influence EL students’ progress in Texas, this study examined ...
The Plan, Do, Study, Act Process is central to the improvement of instructional routines. Watch one of the Better Math Teaching Network members in real time and in a real classroom setting introduce the Plan, Do, Study, Act, or PDSA, process.
AIR experts will present on a variety of mental health and trauma topics at the 21st Annual Conference on Advancing School Mental Health, taking place September 29 to October 1 in San Diego, Calif. The theme of the conference is “Shaping the Future of School Mental Health: Advancing Quality and ...
International experts on the subjects of numeracy and math education will convene in Alexandria, Va. July 13-15 for the 22nd Annual Conference of Adults Learning Maths – An International Forum, sponsored by AIR. The conference features several AIR researchers, and focuses on the importance of math literacy in everyday life. ...