This brief highlights recent trends in athletic and academic spending at public Division I colleges and universities, which show that athletic departments spend far more per athlete than institutions spend to educate the average student—typically three to six times as much.
Susan Bowles Therriault, a senior researcher at AIR, will discuss her work with early warning systems (EWS) to identify students in danger of dropping out of school when she appears at conferences separately hosted by the National Governors Association and the National Dropout Prevention Center/Network in October. ...
This Early Learning Master Plan for Santa Clara County presents both a snapshot of the state of early childhood education in Santa Clara County as of 2017 and a roadmap for the future, with goals, milestones, and actions aimed to address the needs of children ages birth to eight, their ...
This brief includes three components to help educators and policymakers understand the limitations of relying on a single measurement tool and the value of continually seeking out multiple perspectives on student performance data.
Contributing and working alongside Native Nations, AIR has a deep commitment to engaging communities, fostering shared vision and values, building capacity, and developing strategic alliances to achieve sustainable systems change in Indian Country.
The National Clearinghouse on Supportive School Discipline supports educational practitioners in their efforts to transform the conditions for learning as well as harsh, exclusionary and disproportionate disciplinary practices in our nation's schools.
AIR, as a partner in the California Comprehensive Center at WestEd, worked with the K-12 Innovation and Improvement Office (formerly the Middle Grades Improvement Office) at the California Department of Education to conduct a study on student transitions from the middle grades to high school.
Steven Leinwand, a mathematics expert with the American Institutes for Research (AIR), has been awarded the prestigious Ross Taylor/Glenn Gilbert National Leadership Award by the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics for his outstanding contributions to mathematics education.
The National Head Start Impact Study is a longitudinal study that will involve approximately 5,000 - 6,000 three- and four-year-old preschool children across an estimated 75 nationally representative grantee/delegate agencies in communities where there are more eligible children and families than can be served by the program. ...