Experts from AIR will have a significant presence at the annual conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE), being held March 4-6, 2010 at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, D.C.
The international Campbell Collaboration (C2) and the American Institutes for Research (AIR), both nonprofit organizations, are joining forces in a relationship designed to expand the depth of reliable research knowledge available to experts and the public.
The goal of the project, which is entitled Strategic School Funding for Results (SSFR), is to develop and implement fairer and more transparent strategies for allocating resources to schools within each district and to link those strategies to systems designed to encourage innovation and efficiency, and strengthen accountability for student ...
The Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) will be releasing data on Thursday, December 15, 2005, based on the first National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) in the United States in more than a decade. Experts at AIR were responsible for developing the assessment instruments, and analyzing ...
American Institutes for Research (AIR) recently received two prestigious awards for excellence in Communications and Social Marketing. An upbeat music CD produced to encourage physical activity among Hispanic populations at risk for developing Type 2 Diabetes received the Communicator Awards top honor, the Crystal Award of Excellence. Performed by a ...
A new online publication, the Journal of Education for International Development (JEID), is providing education professionals in developing countries with access to timely information on a broad range of subjects, from decentralization efforts in West-Africa to the challenges caused by corruption. The American Institutes for Research, along with its partners ...
As the United States moves toward developing common education standards in reading and mathematics, a new report by AIR examines the composite standards in mathematics used in grades 1-6 by three Asian countries with high-performing students – Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore.
Marilyn Moon, a nationally recognized expert on Medicare who is Vice President and Director of the Health Program of the American Institutes for Research (AIR), was invited to testify Thursday, September 22, 2005 before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security examining the “Cost ...
U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solís visited the child labor prevention project ENTERATE in Jinotega, Nicaragua on July 26, 2010 and met with children, parents and coffee producers who discussed efforts to eliminate exploitive child labor practices. The project is operated by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) under ...
An article written by health care experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) is one of the top five most read papers that appeared in the influential Health Affairs journal during 2010, the publication has announced.