Firearm injury and death is a serious public health problem that can leave lasting harm on the health and safety of people, families, and communities. This study looked at firearm-related deaths among Project Talent participants.
Schools, districts, and teachers need support and evidence-based solutions to help students who are chronically absent. AIR experts have studied the effectiveness of strategies and programs designed to mitigate chronic absenteeism and increase student engagement.
Significant disproportionality (SD) is the overrepresentation of students of any racial or ethnic group identified for special education, placed in more restrictive settings, or disciplined at higher rates than their peers in other racial and ethnic groups. AIR's SD team helps to identify strategies and action steps that can reduce ...
Mukesh Ray is a senior economist in AIR's Health Division with over 10 years of experience implementing and studying health and development policies, with a particular focus on Medicaid. He has led projects that involve advanced econometric methods, data sciences, experimental and quasi-experimental program evaluations, statistical modeling, and programming. Dr. ...
Cindy Manaoat Van develops creative solutions to address client needs and provides technical leadership on operational and implementation projects. She has extensive experience in survey and measure implementation and leading quality improvement initiatives using lean and six sigma.Van currently leads two key projects under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...
The National Center for Education Statistics this week released the annual Condition of Education report, a congressionally mandated compendium of multiple data points about all levels of education. AIR provided technical and editorial support for the report, including improvements that make the data more accessible and easier for policymakers, researchers, ...
The National Center for Healthy Safe Children offers resources, training, and technical assistance to support states, tribes, territories, and local communities as they promote overall wellbeing for students and their families. Explore our tools and resources
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Net (PSNet) website is an online collection of patient safety content to help practicing clinicians, researchers, and policy makers learn about and improve patient safety in healthcare. AIR assists AHRQ in creating website content for the collection. ...
Developing a more integrated service delivery system requires expanding supports and opportunities to meet the needs of students and families. The 21st CCLC-funded programs involved in our study relied on a variety of strategies to meet this goal.