The Texas School Ready! (TSR!) Project consists of communities in which independent districts, Head Start agencies, and child care providers agree to collaborate as partners in providing high-quality instruction to 3- and 4-year-old, income-eligible, at-risk children to promote their readiness for school. AIR was one of three organizations that conducted ...
Heather J. Erwin currently serves as a TA Consultant with AIR. Dr. Erwin previously directed the University of Iowa’s Liberal Arts Beyond Bars (UI LABB) college in prison program and served as a senior advisor to the Executive Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Additionally, Dr. Erwin co-founded the ...
With COVID-19 still affecting in-person education across the country, early childhood educators have had to find new ways to give students, especially those who are dual-language learners, early, rich linguistic experiences. AIR Senior Researcher Lisa Hsin describes a number of ways early childhood educators can help families foster their children’s ...
The AIR Equity Initiative is investing its time, expertise, and financial resources into reimagining policing and public safety in the United States. In this blog post, Senior Program Officer Shakira Munden describes our how these AIR-funded grants will help shape a new vision of justice.
Justice in public safety and policing is essential to creating more equitable opportunities and outcomes in education, work, and health. The AIR Equity Initiative awards grants to support high-quality implementation and impact evaluations of initiatives that aim to redefine the relationship between law enforcement and communities. ...
The AIR Economic Evaluation of Policies and Programs (EEPP) Methods Hub focuses on three types of economic evaluations: cost analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and cost-benefit/return-on-investment analysis. We use our expertise to promote and conduct rigorous economic evaluations for projects led by AIR and our external partners. ...
Early learning has few detractors, but publicly supported prekindergarten has many. In this blog post, Susan Muenchow cites a recent AIR study that refutes the main objections and makes the case for free early childhood programs.
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.
Maria Stephens is a senior researcher at AIR. She has over 25 years of experience related to international and national large-scale assessments, including the processes required for their development and implementation, the communication of their results to a wide range of audiences, and studies that compare their content with other ...
Douglas Fuchs is an Institute Fellow at AIR. He is also Professor of Special Education and Nicholas Hobbs Chair of Special Education and Human Development and Professor Pediatrics in the Vanderbilt University Medical School, Department of Special Education. At Vanderbilt, Fuchs has been principal investigator of 50 federally-sponsored research grants. ...