Over 52% of New York City families with children under the age of four cannot afford child care. Robin Hood's Child Care Quality and Innovation Initiative, launched in 2022, aims to improve New York City’s child care ecosystem while promoting quality, accessibility, and innovation. AIR is providing technical assistance to ...
Experts from AIR will present at several sessions during the 2024 Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) conference. The conference will be held September 18-21, 2024, at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront in Baltimore, Md.
This study was motivated by the desire to better understand the major decline in eighth-grade mathematics achievement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) from 2019 to 2022. Given sharp losses in the enrollment of public school students during the same period, the study has two main purposes: (a) ...
Kathryn Barr focuses on data collection management and operations. Throughout her career at AIR, she has provided support and expertise in all aspects of the data collection process: design, cognitive testing, implementation, documentation, training, post-processing, and analysis.Currently, Barr is the project director for AIR’s support of the Institute of Museum ...
Although the Montessori model has expanded into public schools in recent years, no large-scale evaluation of the efficacy of the Montessori preschool model for developing children's academic, social, and emotional skills has been conducted. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of Montessori preschool education on children's ...
To address the challenge of tracking professional development participation for teachers across computer science education research projects, AIR is partnering with the Computer Science Teachers Association and Institute for Advancing Computing Education to create the Computer Science Teacher Professional Development Passport Alliance. ...
This project aims to improve teacher capacity to support multilingual learning in Cote d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Senegal through existing educational systems in each country. Funded by KIX, and in partnership with Dalberg, we will adapt and evaluate the effectiveness and scalability of AIR’s Foundational Learning Improvement ...
In the evolving landscape of career and technical education, establishing a clear and unified definition of work-based learning is essential to ensure consistent understanding and implementation across programs. Work-based learning experiences play a pivotal role in equipping students with real-world skills and experiences that help bridge the gap between education ...
AIR worked with New Hampshire Department of Education to create a map that summarizes data from the New Hampshire Department of Education’s Bureau of Career Development and labor market data related to the alignment of high wage, high demand occupations to career and technical education (CTE) programs. ...
Shazia Miller, a nationally recognized education researcher and expert on secondary and postsecondary access and success, has joined AIR as a vice president in the Human Services Division. Miller will lead AIR’s secondary and postsecondary area, which seeks to improve systems, policies, programs, and institutions that shape student experiences and ...
