Evidence-based treatment and mentoring services have each been shown to be effective in addressing substance use and delinquency in teenage youth involved with justice systems. For the first time, Project Combine is uniting two models by partnering with courts and treatment providers to integrate Aftercare for Indiana through Mentoring (AIM) ...
A series of issue briefs developed by AIR staff and partners for the Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health offers answers to key questions regarding sustainable school mental health programs that serve children and youth with serious mental health needs.
Nearly 10 percent of pregnant women develop gestational diabetes, and up to 30 percent of those will develop Type 2 diabetes as they age. Yet many of these women do not check their blood glucose levels as often as they should. AIR researchers studied why women at high risk avoid testing.
California youth in foster care have lower performance in math and English language arts, experience more frequent changes in where they attend school, drop out of high school in greater numbers, and graduate at significantly lower rates. AIR was a key partner in Education Equals Partnership, a statewide initiative established ...
Lauren Artzi works on professional learning and research projects related to scientifically based literacy instruction to support learning for students with or at risk for disabilities. She is a principal investigator of a systematic replication study examining literacy instruction in the context of content-area learning. Dr. Artzi is also a principal ...
College students now expect tuition bills 4 to 6 percent higher than they paid the year before. That often means students in four-year public universities pay several hundred dollars more annually while students at private universities shell out upwards of a thousand dollars more each year. What is all this ...
Zeyu Xu is a managing economist at AIR and an affiliated researcher of CALDER. He is an expert on using large-scale longitudinal data to study high school-to-college transition policies and in teacher labor market research issues. Recent work also includes research on career pathways for disadvantaged youth and on the ...
Marian Thacher currently works with the California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project (CALPRO), the statewide professional development system for adult education in California. She manages the development of communities of practice, online professional development courses, and webinars for adult educators. She is also the project director for a contract with ...
Kirsten Firminger has a passion for understanding consumers’ perspectives of health care, and has worked extensively on gathering information from patients about their care experiences. She is an expert at developing and testing materials for use by the public, including presenting information on health care quality, cost, and comparative effectiveness ...
Statistical experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will discuss big data, nonresponse bias, survey research, and findings from AIR’s Project Talent at the 2014 Joint Statistical Meetings hosted by the American Statistical Association on August 2-7 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston, MA. ...
