The Alabama Reading Initiative, which has drawn national attention, has produced encouraging results among secondary school students in part because of educators who took initial instructions that used a “one size fits all” approach to instruction and modified it to meet their students’ particular needs, according to a report by ...
The initiatives to enhance adult learning program accountability and assessment systems of the following states are described in this paper: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Oregon, Texas, Washington, West Virginia.
AIR is engaged in two studies related to the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Program, which has been providing monthly unconditional cash grants to ultra-poor and "labor-constrained" households since 2006.
Gender equality is central to the World Bank’s goals of ending extreme poverty and improving development outcomes. AIR is partnering with Leveraging Evidence for Access and Development (LEAD) at Krea University to develop a standardized tool to measure gender norms in South Asia.
Elementary school students who participated in First 5 LA's Family Literacy Initiative before they began kindergarten exhibited better performance on the California Standards Tests (CST) in English language arts and mathematics than their peers, according to new findings from an eight-year evaluation of the initiative by ...
The Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative sought to lift the overall quality, equality, and value of healthcare in 16 communities across the country. AIR provided technical assistance to help the Alliances meet quality and cost goals by engaging consumers in their health and healthcare.
Experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and Maher & Maher, an affiliate of AIR, will present several sessions during the 2021 Coalition on Adult Basic Education (COABE) National Virtual Conference, being held March 22 – 24, 2021. AIR and Maher experts will present a number of sessions on ...
U.S. Department of Education data from May 2014 show stagnating scores in math and reading among high school seniors; yet younger students are showing progress. In this blog post, Mark Schneider uses NAEP data to further explore this disparity.
Literacy and numeracy are cornerstones of our modern society. Jaleh Soroui discusses the data behind the National Center for Education Statistics' PIAAC Skills Mapping tool, and how it can be used by state and county policymakers, administrators, educators, researchers, and others to draft policies, address gaps, set priorities, and allocate ...
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) is one of a select number of research organizations chosen by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a Public Health Service agency in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to promote innovation in health care delivery in the United States. ...