To support the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in developing performance metrics to rate Medicare Part D prescription drug plans, AIR assembled a team of health economists, pharmacoepidemiologists, seasoned SAS programmers, health IT specialists, and research analysts with experience and capacity in CMS methodology and application of statistical ...
Nineteen youths accepted AIR's invitation to talk about how harsh school discipline has impacted them and the risks and challenges of the "school-to-prison" pipeline in front of an audience of policymakers and practitioners who work on juvenile justice and related issues. The participants, ages 16 to 24, spoke ...
This spotlight takes a look at the history of Title I, how the program has changed over time, and how it affects children, schools, families and education policy. Experts weigh in on the program's past and future in interviews, briefs, and blogs.
Though most public school principals believe that effective leadership of their schools requires authority over personnel decisions, they report having little such authority in practice. That's a key finding of a new study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and AIR. Based on a series of interviews with a small ...
To advance the production of high-quality information on the economic costs and benefits of implementing educational and other social programs, experts from AIR, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University convened a panel of experts in designing and conducting economic evaluations of educational and social programs to develop the Standards ...
AIR’s approach to personalized learning draws upon our rigorous research base and strong field experience in facilitating educational system change efforts across the nation and globe. Explore AIR-developed resources to support states, districts, and schools that would like to implement personalized learning programming. ...
State and school district leaders, whether relative newcomers to ESSA or entrenched in implementation, will find detailed information on states’ plans, policy, and research on educational practices in AIR’s ESSA Co-Pilot. The following 13 resources were chosen by AIR experts as the best entry point into this broad and deep ...
This policy brief provides principal evaluation system designers information about the technical soundness and cost (i.e., time requirements) of publicly available school climate surveys.
On March 23, 2018, the National Prevention Science Coalition will be convening a Congressional Briefing on school violence. The session focused on bringing together top thinkers and practitioners who recognize that our common goal is to achieve student safety and well-being in addition to the absence of violence. AIR's David ...
Exclusionary school discipline policies once instituted to prevent serious infractions have crept into discipline practices for minor issues. Youth who participated in a roundtable on the subject contend that it limits opportunities to learn and compromises academic achievement; is applied disproportionately and subjectively; and deprives students of the ...