AIR facilitated conversations with families to explore the role that sending text messages to families has in promoting student attendance. As part of a related project, the AIR team put together an actionable toolkit detailing 8 specific steps for districts and schools to follow to implement a text messaging strategy. ...
AIR conducted an independent evaluation of the program, including studies of implementation, impact on teachers’ instruction, and impact on students’ participation in and performance on the AP CSP exam. The final report of the evaluation was released in August 2025.
Bitnara Jasmine Park is an expert in educational measurement, assessment, survey design, and evaluation with more than two decades of research experience. Her work focuses on generating valid, reliable, and actionable data grounded in sound and fair measurement practices to inform instruction and education policy. In recent years, Dr. Park ...
The Youth Voices project—a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based study launched by AIR in 2024 with support from the AIR Opportunity Fund—is taking a unique approach to coordinating school- and community-based services to help keep young people out of the criminal justice system: Having youth work with adult researchers to co-create, conduct, and ...
Jennell McHugh specializes in survey and assessment development, data collection management, field staff training, and qualitative data analysis. She currently serves as the project director for the State Library Administrative Agency Survey, a biennial national census survey conducted for the Institute of Museum and Library Services. In this role, she manages ...
Student success systems combine data, relationships, and improvement science to help students thrive, and can be a powerful tool to track and implement all types of student engagement. The GRAD Partnership is supporting the use of these systems to promote student improvement and engagement.
A mountain of evidence demonstrates how afterschool and summer learning programs funded by the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program contribute to youth development. States can use these funds in several different ways, including for academic supports and enrichment opportunities for students and helping adult family members be ...
Christina Davis specializes in large-scale assessment design, development, operations, and analysis. Supporting the National Center for Education Statistics, she leads the assessment operations and development team for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) as well as the data collection and analysis technical review team for international studies. She has ...
AIR supported the Institute of Museum and Library Services in administering and analyzing the State Library Administrative Agency (SLAA) Survey from 2012 to 2017 and again has been doing so since 2023. We have improved the functionality of the SLAA Survey web interface that states use to submit their data. ...
AIR supports the Institute of Museum and Library Services by designing, administering, processing, and analyzing the Public Library Survey since 2015. AIR works closely with IMLS to improve the methodological rigor of the PLS and the timeliness of data releases and to provide additional research and evaluation services. ...
