Tammy Kolbe is an expert in education finance and economic evaluation. Dr. Kolbe brings deep expertise in analyzing the cost structures and funding mechanisms that underpin effective policy implementation, with a particular emphasis on K-16 education funding systems and special education funding policies. Her expertise is grounded in her work ...
This five-year resource center is a partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to extend the reach of existing NSF investments and build career opportunities related to fundamental STEM education research.
Syrian and other refugee children living in Turkey face many obstacles to attending school regularly, including language barriers, cost of transportation, and a variety of household socioeconomic constraints. AIR conducted a one-year evaluation to assess whether and how the Conditional Cash Transfer for Education program supported regular attendance. ...
AIR implemented the Foundational Literacy Improvement Package (FLIP) model in Northern Benin and worked with Benin’s Ministry of Early Childhood and Primary Education throughout FLIP’s implementation to support capacity building at all levels of the national education system and to ensure the program’s sustainability. ...
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 ...
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 established the Quality Payment Program (QPP) in 2015 to repeal the Sustainable Growth Rate Formula and to reward clinicians who provide high-value, high-quality care to Medicare patients. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the first year of the ...
In the March 2021 report to the Congress, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommended that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services continue to cover telehealth services after the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE). This would allow for a study focused on the effects of telehealth ...
David Myers, who has guided AIR through a period of tremendous growth and change as president and CEO since 2011, has announced that he will retire in February 2024. Jessica Heppen, currently senior vice president, has been selected by the Board of Directors as AIR’s seventh president and CEO. The transition ...
Sudhanshu ‘Ashu’ Handa, a distinguished expert on poverty, health, and human development in sub-Saharan Africa, has joined AIR as an Institute Fellow. Handa is AIR’s first full-time, internationally based Fellow, working out of the Institute’s office in Nairobi, Kenya.
Experts from AIR will present at several sessions during the 2022 Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) conference. The conference will be held September 21-24, 2022 in Arlington, Virginia. Built around the theme “From Reckoning to Racial Justice: Centering Underserved Communities in Research on Educational Effectiveness,” the conference will ...
