The Education Support Program builds on the institutional achievements made by ERP 1 in strengthening the local educational structures in Egypt. The Program will support teacher professional development and community involvement in educational decision-making and quality improvement.
As more students return to in-person learning, education leaders are working not only to rebuild school communities and help students transition but also to address gaps in learning resulting from COVID-19 disruptions.
This series of modules Using CBM in a Response to Intervention Framework, provides information about how student progress monitoring, specifically Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM), can be used to determine a student’s response to an intervention.
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 ...
Experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) played a significant role in studying and reporting the findings of The Impact of Two Professional Development Interventions on Early Reading Instruction and Achievement, a report that was released on September 22, 2008 by the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional ...
Sarah V. Arden is a principal researcher at AIR in the area of special education. In this role, Dr. Arden acts as a service area coordinator and leads the intensive technical assistance efforts of the Office of Special Education (OSEP) funded National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII). Dr. Arden also ...
For more than 15 years, AIR has led the National Reporting System for Adult Education for the Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE). AIR developed the adult education accountability system—the NRS—and from its inception developed a parallel line of technical assistance activities to ensure its effective implementation and use. ...
Quality indicators have helped states define the components of program quality and enabled them to develop measures for evaluating programs to ensure effective practice. This paper presents a summary of state implementation of the quality indicators, focusing on the development of measures and standards for the indicators and the impact ...
Experts from AIR will present on a wide array of research involving students with disabilities during the Council for Exceptional Children’s annual conference in St. Louis April 13-16, 2016.
USAID's Partnership for Resilience and Economic Growth brought together humanitarian and development partners to build resilience among Kenya’s vulnerable pastoralist communities in the country’s arid and semi-arid lands. PREG focused on nine vulnerable and high-risk areas and works with the Government of Kenya at both national and county levels to ...