Like many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, literacy rates in Côte d’Ivoire are lower among women than men, because fewer girls enroll and complete primary and secondary education. To address this need, CARE Côte d’Ivoire developed a novel digital tool for bridging the literacy and digital skills gaps in many rural ...
Adult education programs are essential for addressing skill gaps, enhancing the workforce, and supporting the U.S. economy. However, the persistence of adult learners in these programs is influenced by various personal and external factors. AIR partnered with Academy of Hope Adult Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., to examine how ...
AIR is collaborating with iCivics to evaluate the implementation and impact of a year-long, inquiry-based core curriculum for 8th-grade U.S. History classes. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, iCivics is providing teachers with instructional materials and supporting them through professional development and coaching to effectively implement the curriculum. ...
Matthew Farmer specializes in civic learning, inquiry-based learning, social studies education, high school course-taking, and continuous improvement. His work involves conducting quantitative analyses for both experimental and quasi-experimental designs. Currently, he serves as the project director for two civic learning studies: Reading Like a Historian: Preparing Students to Understand the ...
The Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (MA EEC) partnered with the AIR to analyze tuition rates for early care and education programs across the Commonwealth using methods similar to a market rate survey. Information about tuition rates charged to families can inform future policy and funding decisions broadly. ...
Bhashithe Abeysinghe specializes in artificial intelligence-adjacent research for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). His work focuses on leveraging process data to enhance educational measurement through advanced computer science methods. An expert in machine learning, natural language processing, and large language models, Dr. Abeysinghe has significantly contributed to the ...
Landa Spingler takes a holistic approach to executing complex projects. With almost 20 years of project experience across multiple industries, including over a decade in business development, Spingler understands the critical role relationships play in the success of executing large-scale projects in research and evaluation and technical assistance. She has ...
To explore the types of care and services that Medicaid-covered postpartum parents can access, AIR's Health Research and Policy Center analyzed coverage across state Medicaid programs of evidence-based perinatal services like home visits, maternal depression screening at well-child visits, and lactation support outside the hospital. ...
Foundations and other public and nonprofit organizations increasingly express interest in cultivating systems-level change and maximizing their impact through more complex approaches. As organizations look beyond individual interventions and programs, they must think differently and define problems and questions in fundamentally new ways.AIR has found that traditional approaches used to ...
AI by 8 is a research-practice partnership centered on the belief that every child, regardless of geographic location, deserves to be educated on the fundamentals of artificial intelligence by 8 years of age. The project is a collaboration between AIR, North Carolina State University, and educators from across rural North ...
