A new research brief released by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences documents states’ capacity to support school turnaround as of spring 2012 and spring 2013. The brief, the result of a collaboration between experts at AIR and Mathematica Policy Research, found that at least three-quarters of ...
Subsidies for public higher education institutions have hit a 10-year low while students for the first time pay on average half or more of their education’s cost, finds a report by the Delta Cost Project at the American Institutes for Research (AIR). Community colleges, the analysis also shows, are posting ...
Demonstrating its ongoing commitment to education research, evaluation, and technical assistance, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) today announced that it will merge with Learning Point Associates, effective August 1, 2010.
The California Department of Education has awarded the American Institutes for Research (AIR) a $7.2 million contract to direct the California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project (CALPRO) through June 2010. The project provides a comprehensive system of research-based professional development for adult education and literacy teachers and administrators in order ...
The gap in what students are expected to know in each state varies so greatly that the difference in student expectations between the states with the most rigorous assessments and those with the least stringent is twice the size of the national black-white achievement gap, according to a new report ...
Experts from AIR and IMPAQ, an AIR affiliate, will present at several sessions during the annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), being held virtually April 25 to May 2, 2021. The theme for this year’s conference is “Social Responsibility within Changing Contexts,” and focuses on closely ...
Special education experts from AIR will present at the 2017 Council for Exceptional Children annual convention and expo, being held April 19-22 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA.
Special education experts from AIR will present at the 2018 Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Annual Convention and Expo, being held February 7-10 at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida. The CEC is the largest professional organization dedicated to improving the educational success of individuals with disabilities, with more ...
AIR Institute Fellow Larry Hedges was recently named a recipient of the prestigious Yidan Prize for Education Research for his groundbreaking work in developing statistical methods for meta-analysis across the sciences and innovative methods of synthesizing research findings across studies.
Experts from the American Institutes of Research will discuss a broad range of research and interventions involving students with disabilities during the Council for Exceptional Children’s (CEC) annual conference in San Diego April 8-11, 2015.