Apprenticeship industry intermediaries work to increase awareness and adoption of apprenticeship programs in a targeted industry sector. Since 2020, AIR has been contracted by the U.S. Department of Labor as an industry intermediary to drive the creation of new apprenticeship programs with the goal to increase and diversify the tech ...
Taking advanced courses in high school predicts a broad array of positive outcomes, yet many students have lacked access to these courses historically. To address this problem, more than 60 districts in Washington state implemented a policy that automatically enrolled all qualified high school students in advanced coursework. AIR experts ...
This study brings together results from NAEP and three international large-scale assessments to examine long-term, intermediate, and recent score trends in reading, mathematics, and science for U.S. students in 4th grade, in 8th grade, and at 15 years old. The analysis finds a relatively consistent pattern across these assessments: performance ...
The start of the 2022-23 school year marked the beginning of the expansion of California’s transitional kindergarten (TK) program, which provides an additional year of early education prior to traditional kindergarten. Research has shown that transitional kindergarten improves learning for children overall, with especially pronounced benefits for dual language learners. ...
Sarah Pedersen is an expert qualitative and mixed methodologist with experience managing, developing, and implementing programs and policies that contribute to maternal and women’s health, health equity, health care quality and access, and person- and family-centered care. She uses multiple methodologies to collect and translate data to elicit evidence-informed, actionable ...
Each year, thousands of birthing women experience negative outcomes during and after childbirth that result in significant consequences to their health and well-being. Health policy researchers from AIR investigated policy considerations for states offering or considering Medicaid coverage of doulas to address those disparities and advance perinatal health equity. ...
Lauren Focarazzo is chief growth officer and senior vice president at AIR, where she plays a pivotal role in driving the organization's strategic growth and advancing its mission, vision, and values. As a member of AIR’s executive leadership team, she shapes business strategy to ensure both immediate and sustained organizational growth. Partnering ...
In a longitudinal, quasi-experimental study that spanned more than a decade, AIR found that attending a high school with an explicit focus on deeper learning resulted in positive short-term outcomes, but few longer-term outcomes. In this Q&A, AIR Principal Researcher Kristina Zeiser and Senior Researcher Catherine Bitter share insights about ...
Eben Witherspoon has expertise in research design, quantitative analysis, and educational psychology. His work focuses on understanding students’ experiences in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) classrooms and career pathways, with an emphasis on broadening participation in those fields. Dr. Witherspoon currently serves as co-principal investigator on an NSF-funded meta-analysis of ...
AIR has been awarded a five-year contract to continue to provide support to a federal program that rewards clinicians that provide high-value, high-quality care for Medicare enrollees. AIR will support clinicians’ participation in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) on behalf of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for ...
