A new report prepared by experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education examines how five school districts measured teacher effectiveness and used effectiveness information in human resource policies.
Kathleen Courrier, a leading expert in communicating research and public policy, has joined the American Institutes for Research (AIR) as vice president for communications and public affairs.
A new evaluation of Title III implementation, released by the U.S. Department of Education and conducted by the American Institutes for Research (AIR), found that states and school districts vary widely in how they define English Learners (ELs) and how they set thresholds for achieving proficiency in English. As a ...
AIR researchers Rebecca Herman, Kerstin Carlson LeFloch, and Joel Knudson will present recent research on turning around chronically low-performing schools and exploring the turnaround experiences and strategies of eight California districts at the California Educational Research Association's (CERA) 90th Annual Conference December 1-2, 2011 at ...
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) will send special education experts to discuss high school dropout prevention and response to intervention (RTI) at the annual conference of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), which is being held April 11-14, 2012 in Denver, CO.
Darren Cambridge, an expert in education technology and online communities of practice at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), has been awarded the Faculty Writing Prize for his "innovative and groundbreaking" book, Eportfolios for Lifelong Learning and Assessment.
Experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will discuss a variety of health research issues, including models for reducing chronic disease risk factors and mixed methods in health services and policy research, during the AcademyHealth 2012 Annual Research Meeting to be held June 24-26, 2012 at the Walt Disney ...
Elementary school students who participated in First 5 LA's Family Literacy Initiative before they began kindergarten exhibited better performance on the California Standards Tests (CST) in English language arts and mathematics than their peers, according to new findings from an eight-year evaluation of the initiative by ...
The American Institutes for Research will send experts in workplace and career issues to the 27th annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), which is being held April 26-28, 2012 in San Diego, CA.
Staff from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will discuss school research and its application during the Association for Education Finance and Policy's 37th Annual Conference, to be held March 15-17, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency Boston in Boston, MA.
