In response to statistics that show about a quarter of undergraduate women report being the victim of sexual assault or misconduct since beginning college, AIR has developed a collection of guides and online training for college campus health staff caring for students who have experienced sexual assault and other trauma. ...
Experts from AIR will present at several sessions during the annual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management research conference. AIR experts will discuss a variety of topics in the areas of education and workforce development, including educator licensing and deployment; transitions to careers among low-income youth; the impacts of ...
Dr. David Osher, a vice president at the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and an expert on issues involving children's social and emotional development and learning, will be the featured speaker on October 18 at the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education (DLC) in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada as ...
Christina Yancey, an expert at conducting and directing evaluations of workforce development programs and policies, is joining AIR as a vice president, leading AIR’s workforce program area.
Dr. David Osher, a vice president with AIR and a nationally recognized expert on creating safe school environments, testified on Wednesday before the U.S House of Representatives' Education and Workforce Committee and cautioned there are no "quick fixes or easy solutions" to addressing safety issues like the Sandy Hook Elementary ...
Results from a new AIR study add to a growing body of evidence that raises serious concerns about exclusionary discipline practices in middle and high schools. AIR researchers analyzed data from the nation’s largest public school district, New York City, to determine the effects of different types and durations of ...
The U.S. Department of Education’s National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments provides a range of resources and expertise on emotional and physical safety, bullying, cyberbullying, substance use prevention, crisis response, and building trauma-sensitive schools.
AIR is strengthening its efforts to diversify the fields of behavioral and social science research through a partnership with three large universities across the country. The AIR Pipeline Partnership Program seeks to address a persistent lack of racial and ethnic diversity in the BSSR fields and ensure that individuals from ...
The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Healthy Students, in collaboration with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, have selected AIR to operate the National Center on Safe, Supportive Learning Environments. This new center will ensure that state education agencies, local education agencies, schools, and colleges ...
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.