David F. Bateman is a principal researcher at AIR, and co-principal investigator of LEAD-IDEA, the OSEP funded training center focusing on principals and special education. He also works on program reviews for AIR. He is a former professor at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Educational Leadership and ...
East Africa is home to some of the most spectacular wildlife and ecosystems in the world. These vast yet fragile environments contribute greatly to national and regional economies, producing between 7.5 and 10 percent of the regional gross domestic product. However, unplanned and unregulated land use and industrial development disrupt ...
Pre-kindergarten students do not learn in the same ways that older elementary students do. Here are five ways education leaders can incorporate research-based developmentally appropriate practice into public pre-kindergarten expansions.
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.
Helen Muhisani is a senior researcher at AIR. She has more than ten years of experience in data analysis and reporting, with a particular focus on postsecondary outcomes and indicators of college and career readiness. Muhisani currently serves as the project director of a study examining the relationship between National ...
Successive federal efforts to tackle the entrenched challenges of persistently low-performing schools have fallen far short of their goal. In this blog post, Kerstin Le Floch and Catherine Barbour offer three ways ESEA can build capacity in low-performing schools.
College Measures worked with state governments to help identify higher education credentials with high return on investment. Our work focused on jobs that present the best opportunities for students to launch exciting careers and on skills that students need to get those jobs, with the goal of helping them find ...
Washington state is invested in social and emotional learning (SEL) as a key lever for supporting student success in school and in life. AIR has partnered with Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) in building capacity across the state to implement the statewide SEL framework. ...
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 included $4.35 billion for Race to the Top (RTT), one of the Obama administration’s signature programs and one of the largest federal government investments in an education grant program. This final report examines how receipt of RTT grants was related to student ...
This five-year resource center is a partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to extend the reach of existing NSF investments and build career opportunities related to fundamental STEM education research.