Cecilia Xuning Zhang is an interdisciplinary researcher with years of mixed-methods research experience and a wide breadth of content knowledge in the areas of Early Childhood Education (ECE) and Technology-Based Learning Supports. She has rich technical expertise in collecting and analyzing extant data to inform enrollment trends and population estimates, leading user ...
Danielle Riser is a senior researcher in the early childhood practice area of AIR. In this role, she leads and supports quantitative and mixed-methods data collection, analyses, and reporting on early childhood development, child care, and early intervention/special education projects. She also serves as project director and task lead on ...
Sarah Peko-Spicer is a senior researcher at AIR. She has extensive expertise in methods related to cluster randomized trials, optimal design of experiments, replication, and meta-analysis. Her primary areas of interest including social emotional learning, youth development, and civic engagement. She currently serves as the project director for the AIR ...
Evidence suggests that increasing young people’s SEL competencies can improve behavioral, academic, and life outcomes, but SEL programs and strategies have been critiqued for failing to attend to contexts of inequity. AIR has brought together a team of experts in SEL, school violence prevention, and research synthesis to understand the ...
The GSA One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS)+ Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contracts were designed to offer federal agencies a swift and cost-effective method for acquiring professional services to tackle complex challenges with maximum flexibility.
On June 7, 2023, The COVID-19 and Equity in Education (CEE) initiative hosted the second Research Spotlight webinar of this series, a discussion with two researchers from the University of California–Davis about research approaches to Black girls’ well-being and Latino academic resilience.
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) has been named an Apprenticeship Ambassador by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to help promote and support Registered Apprenticeship opportunities across the nation. (Read the DOL press release)AIR is part of the second cohort of ambassadors and joins 300 other organizations that are ...
Using claims data before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2017–21), this analysis examined skilled nursing facility (SNF) admissions among Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries who were dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid and beneficiaries who were eligible only for Medicare.
Under the Creating Opportunities to Strengthen Equity and Labor Rights for Women project (COSER), AIR and our implementing partner, Grameen Foundation, seek to improve working conditions for women textile and apparel maquila workers in Honduras by addressing gender discrimination in the workforce.
