A decade ago, the U.S. Department of Education began reporting “Student Right To Know” graduation rates for America’s colleges and universities. While this federally mandated measure is flawed, it still captures the completion statistics of one of the nation’s largest groups of students. As this blog post shows, the news ...
AIR researchers Rebecca Herman, Kerstin Carlson LeFloch, and Joel Knudson will present recent research on turning around chronically low-performing schools and exploring the turnaround experiences and strategies of eight California districts at the California Educational Research Association's (CERA) 90th Annual Conference December 1-2, 2011 at ...
Megan J. Austin, a researcher at AIR, is the recipient of the 2019 Dissertation Award from Division L of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).Her dissertation, High School Curricular Intensity: Inequalities in Access and Returns Over Three Cohorts, includes three papers that develop a new measure of the quantity and ...
AIR is convening a network of communities from California, Florida, New York, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington that want to develop community-based research-practice partnerships in order to focus educational improvement efforts after the pandemic.
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. ...
Given persistent failure rates and mounting student debt, how prepared students are to enter and succeed in college is suddenly everyone’s business. According to Mark Schneider, in this blog post, ACT data shows many students ready to leave for college are not ready academically in at least one area. ...
Community colleges serve many critical purposes for residents within their local service areas by providing relatively low-cost, open-access postsecondary education and workforce-focused training. Given the hyperlocal enrollment of community college students and their primarily economic reasons for choosing to enroll in college, place-based measures of economic value are increasingly important ...
Nearly 80 experts from the American Institutes for Research will present current research findings April 8-12 in Washington, D.C., for the world’s largest annual gathering of educational research scholars: the American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference.
Experts with AIR will explore a variety of education research and finance topics during the 42nd annual Association for Education Finance and Policy conference in Washington, DC, March 16-18. This year’s conference theme is “Education Policy and Research in the Post-Obama Era,” and will focus on how the leadership shift ...