Karen Manship focuses on early childhood and K-12 education policy and finance. She currently serves as principal investigator (PI) for the evaluation of the Duke Endowment’s Summer Literacy Initiative and a leader in AIR’s early childhood cost modeling work. She recently led the national study of the Montessori preschool model ...
Coretta Mallery Lankford leads the design and implementation of work to develop and implement quality measures. Dr. Lankford’s work focuses on survey research design and implementation, development and credentialing of patient-reported experience of care measures and patient-reported outcome measures. Dr. Lankford previously trained as a mental health counselor and brings this ...
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On Tuesday, June 12, 2007 experts for the American Institutes for Research (AIR), the Center on Education Policy (CEP) and the RAND Corporation will discuss "Assessing Accountability Under the No Child Left Behind Act," based upon major findings from multi-year studies of the federal law.
Last fall, the Technical Assistance Partnership for Children’s Mental Health at AIR partnered with the Center for the Study of Social Policy through support from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Administration for Children, Youth and Families to convene a group of experts to address this ...
Researchers from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) are making numerous presentations at the 2008 conference of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) being held April 3-5, 2008, at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
The Scientific Evidence in Education (SEE) Forums, a project of the American Institutes for Research (AIR), will host a policy luncheon forum on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 on “Building a Foundation for the Future: A Discussion on the Latest Research on Elementary School Math Curricula.”
William Kamkwamba was able to bring free electricity to his village in Malawi by building a windmill that was based on information from a donated book sent to a local library by the Malawi Teacher Training Activity (MTTA), a program funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and ...
Education Week and the American Institutes for Research (AIR) co-sponsored a forum on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 entitled “Searching for Solutions: An Evidence-Based Dialogue on Teacher Quality.” Panelists included Michelle Rhee, ...
Four experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will give presentations at the Fordham Council on Applied Psychometrics Conference (FCAP) taking place June 26-27, 2008 at Fordham University in New York City.
