The American Institutes for Research website has won the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Interactive Media Awards™ in recognition of the planning, execution, and overall professionalism of the site, the award group announced on February 24, 2011.
A study by AIR sheds light on the specific strategies and practices that may account for differences in student achievement among Boston's traditional, pilot, and charter schools. According to the study, high-achieving schools of all types—traditional, charter, and pilot—share a critical common characteristic: school leaders with enough autonomy to deliver ...
A new policy report examines the challenges and potential solutions to overcoming the barriers facing low-skilled adult learners who are striving to improve their English proficiency, develop their basic skills and advance in the workplace.
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) hosted a conference in Manhattan on November 10, 2010 that featured leading education researchers who presented the results of the New York City Education Reform Retrospective, an examination of the landmark Children First Initiative aimed at reforming New York City's public schools. The invitational ...
Gina Burkhardt, an education policy expert and executive vice president at AIR, and Dr. Thomas Parrish, a nationally-recognized expert on fiscal policy in public education, were featured speakers at a forum on K-12 policy and economics hosted by Education Week on Tuesday, January 11, 2011.
A panel of experts, including an official of the Michigan Department of Education and the principal of a Hampton, Va., school, will discuss the challenges of turning around chronically low-performing schools and the new requirements of the federal School Improvement Grants during a Capitol Hill forum on Friday, September 24, ...
Signaling its continued commitment to providing research and solutions to improve our community and the world, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) – the world's largest behavioral and social science research organization – today announced that Cheryl Vince Whitman will be joining the organization in August as senior vice president. ...
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) is leading the creation of the Community Forum on Effective Health Care, a three-year initiative that will evaluate and develop approaches aimed at expanding the participation of the public and various stakeholder groups in improving the effectiveness of health care. ...
Researchers from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will address a broad range of human performance and workplace issues during the 25th annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), which is being held April 8-10, 2010 in Atlanta.
The gap in what students are expected to know in each state varies so greatly that the difference in student expectations between the states with the most rigorous assessments and those with the least stringent is twice the size of the national black-white achievement gap, according to a new report ...