President Barack Obama plans to use his State of the Union address to the nation on Tuesday evening, January 25, 2011 to outline revisions in federal education policy that will support efforts to “out educate” other countries in an effort to spur U.S. economic revival and increase its global competitiveness. ...
Elizabeth Grant and Stacey Jordan, who served as senior policy officials with the U.S. Department of Education, have joined the American Institutes for Research (AIR) as members of AIR's Education Program.
AIR is welcoming two nationally renowned scholars as Institute Fellows. Odis Johnson Jr. and H. Richard (Rich) Milner IV will bring their decades of diverse research and policy experience to the AIR Equity Initiative.
AIR has been awarded the government-wide Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTS) contract, designed to provide human capital strategy, tailored training and development, and organizational performance improvement services to all federal agencies. HCaTS is an indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle managed through a partnership between the General Services Administration (GSA) ...
American Institutes for Research (AIR) experts in education, health, and human and social development will be available to help the news media examine the federal budget proposal for the 2013 fiscal year that President Barack Obama will present to Congress on Monday, February 13, 2012.
Dr. Gary W. Phillips, a chief scientist at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), will participate in a forum on "Remaining Competitive in a Flat World: The Crisis in American Education and Its Implications for the Economy." The Friday, June 27, 2008 event is made possible by The Library of ...
The American Institutes for Research, one of the nation’s largest independent research organizations, announced today that it has acquired Sutton Group, a nationally recognized social marketing and communication firm based in Washington, D.C.
Education policy expert Laura Jimenez, formerly of the U.S. Department of Education, has joined AIR as head of the College and Career Readiness and Success Center. Jimenez served as special assistant in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the department. As director of the center, Jimenez will continue ...
Dr. Dan Goldhaber, a leading economist specializing in educational productivity and teacher quality issues, is joining the American Institutes for Research (AIR) on July 1 as AIR Vice President and Director of the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) at AIR. ...
AIR is pleased to announce that Dr. Diane August, an education expert with extensive background in the development of language and literacy in second-language learners, is joining AIR as a managing researcher and will guide the organization's English Language Learners (ELLs) efforts.