Tamika Cowans is a senior researcher at AIR. She has over seven years of experience providing research, project management, and administrative support for projects pertaining to survey development, patient experiences of care, and chronic diseases. She has experience in qualitative data collection and analysis including conducting focus groups, environmental scans, ...
Researchers from the American Institutes for Research will give presentations on a broad range of education research topics during the Society for Research on Education Effectiveness conference March 4-7, 2015 in Washington, D.C. The conference theme, Learning Curves: Creating and Sustaining Gains from Early Childhood through Adulthood, explores the role ...
American Institutes for Research experts will participate in the 2015 Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education, a gathering aimed at seeking agile approaches to research and development that will improve education practices. Participants reflect a broad cross section of education experts, from researchers to practitioners and policymakers, who will ...
AIR experts will explore a multitude of education research topics during the 40th annual Association for Education Finance and Policy conference taking place at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C., February 26-28. The theme of the conference is Research Informing Practice, Practice Informing Research and will examine trends ...
Many Egyptian students are missing out on foundational literacy skills in the early grades while older students are being passed along into the upper grades without having acquired such skills. In this video, AIR literacy specialist Rebecca Stone talks about how AIR developed a remedial reading and writing program and ...
In 2014, the Equity Project at AIR hosted its first Research Roundtable. There, some of the nation’s top educational researchers drafted a research agenda addressing some of the long-term challenges facing American public schools educating students from low-income and minority families. Leaving micro-reforms to others, we asked tough questions that ...
Research shows that the mere presence of a weapon in a car can intensify deadly aggression. In this commentary for CNN, AIR expert Mary Vriniotis addresses the recent road rage death of a 44-year-old mother and the complex relationship between guns and cars.
This report presents descriptive findings focusing on school practices related to staffing, student support, instructional time, educational placements, teacher collaboration, and professional development in schools explicitly held accountable for the performance of students with disabilities and schools that are not accountable for their performance. ...
The Education Policy Center at AIR has released an issue brief citing the need for state policymakers to consider setting rigorous student performance standards to measure academic success and not focus primarily on content standards for teaching materials.
Most of the world is multilingual—at the national, community, family, and individual levels—and each of these has implications for teaching and learning. This study is one of the first to focus on a theory of change relevant for multilingual learners in the developing world. Pooja Nakamura introduces the report in ...
