Roger Jarjoura is on the leadership team for AIR’s National Reentry Resource Center, funded by the U.S. Department of Justice. Prior to joining AIR in 2012, he spent 19 years as a faculty member in the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, where he served as a fellow ...
The Education Support Program builds on the institutional achievements made by ERP 1 in strengthening the local educational structures in Egypt. The Program will support teacher professional development and community involvement in educational decision-making and quality improvement.
Conducting research and providing technical assistance in developing countries has long been challenging and unpredictable. Here, experts from AIR and local staff in the field share learned lessons this year about creative solutions to research problems that they will carry with them when encountering future challenges. ...
AIR is expanding its initiative to diversify the social and behavioral sciences fields through partnerships with two universities in East Africa, the University of Nairobi, in Kenya, and the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. The two universities will join AIR’s Pipeline Partnership Program, which provides guidance, mentoring and ...
AIR experts will present at the 61st annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), being held March 5-9 in Atlanta, Georgia. This year’s conference theme is “Problematizing (In)Equality: The Promise of Comparative and International Education.”
Through its work with the U.S. Department of Labor, AIR is helping Mexico address its most pressing and immediate needs in the transition to the new labor justice system by supporting the government efforts to establish and operate new, more effective labor justice institutions. Similarly, in Honduras, we are supporting ...
In this 18-month study funded by National Institute for Research, AIR researchers, in partnership with leading mentoring scholars, seek to better understand the change mechanisms in youth mentoring using a rich dataset of close to 2,000 mentor-mentee pairs that were part of a previous study AIR concluded in 2018. ...
The U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua, Robert Callahan, took part in a school inauguration ceremony on March 11, 2010 in Kisalaya, Nicaragua. The structure is one of two schools that AIR helped construct in the remote northern region of Nicaragua following Hurricane Felix in September 2007.
Jonathan A. Simonetta is Vice President, International Development at AIR. As Vice President, he mentors researchers, oversees projects, monitors overall project performance, and leads business development for our International Development Division.
The development of In My Classroom: A Guide to Reflective Practice is the result of an urgent need in many countries for relevant and practical materials that help teachers and teacher educators understand and implement learner centered teaching in the primary grades.