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  • Title III Evaluation

    The U.S. Department of Education commissioned AIR to evaluate the Title III program to determine how, and how well, states are implementing Title III provisions, how state policy translates into district practices, and how well ELLs are mastering grade level content and improving their English language proficiency. ...
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    Jessica Heppen

    Jessica Heppen is president of AIR, overseeing the Institute’s Health, Human Services, and International Development divisions, as well as human resources and the business development. She became AIR’s seventh president in January 2023, succeeding current CEO, David Myers. As part of a planned leadership transition, Dr. Heppen will become president ...
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    American Institutes for Research to Lead Federal Research Network on Pandemic Learning Loss and Recovery

    14 Feb 2023
    AIR is leading a federally funded network that will conduct and share research that addresses learning setbacks resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. AIR has been awarded a three-year, $3 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the research, evaluation and statistics arm of the U.S. Department of Education, ...

  • Human Capital

    Human capital solutions help employers address their current and future workforce related needs and span the entire employee life cycle. AIR’s Human Capital Solutions team uses evidence-based analyses and approaches to support projects that encompass the entire human capital life cycle and provide our public and private sector clients with ...

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  • Study Rates 22 Widely Used Comprehensive School Reform Models

    24 Dec 2013
    A new guide using strict scientific criteria to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of 22 widely adopted comprehensive elementary school reform models rates 15 as “limited” to “moderately strong” in demonstrating positive effects on student achievement.

  • New AIR Study Compares the Quality of U.S. Math Instruction with Singapore, a Recognized World Leader

    24 Dec 2013
    A study by the American Institutes for Research comparing the teaching of elementary school mathematics in the United States and Singapore has found that Singapore’s textbooks and assessment examinations are more demanding and their teachers more skilled mathematically but that U.S. approaches often put more emphasis on certain important 21 ...

  • CALDER Relocates to American Institutes for Research

    24 Dec 2013
    Demonstrating its ongoing commitment to education research and evaluation, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) today announced that the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) has relocated to AIR, effective July 18, 2011.

  • 11% of Undergrads Take Distance Education Courses Exclusively, Latest Condition of Education Report Co-Written by AIR Finds

    29 May 2014
    The Condition of Education 2014, the latest edition of a congressionally mandated annual report on the developments and trends in all levels of U.S. education, finds that about 11 percent of undergraduates take distance education courses exclusively. AIR played a major role in producing the report, which is published by ...

  • Summer STEM—Engaging Youth, Building Identity, Narrowing Gaps

    25 Apr 2016
    What is summer STEM? Hands-on programs that teach science, technology, engineering, and math in ways that engage young people and fight the summer learning loss that especially affects the nation’s most vulnerable children and youth. In this blog post, Elizabeth Devaney and Courtney Tanenbaum share what we’re learning about successful ...