When teachers learn, students learn. For decades, AIR has conducted studies of teacher professional learning and helped practitioners use evidence to develop, implement, test, and scale professional learning programs.
The Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Midwest at Learning Point Associate, an affiliate of the American Institutes for Research (AIR), has launched the Midwest Education Atlas, an online repository of geographic data displays that map out the most recent data on high school dropout rates and give educators a new view ...
With more than 1 million veterans having used the Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits, it is critical to better understand the challenges veterans face—and paths institutions could take to address those challenges by better recognizing their learning. This project examines veterans’ experiences with, and perceptions of, having their military learning recognized ...
Selective reporting is a critical concern in the scientific literature. Imagine if a study only reported on the positive effects of an educational intervention, while hiding negative or inconclusive results. This bias would give others an inaccurate understanding of the intervention’s effectiveness. This problem is especially salient in meta-analyses that ...
What happens when a public school district partners with a team of experts deeply experienced in local and state program evaluation and just as committed as the district to school reform? In AIR, Denver Public Schools found a team of experts who empowered their leaders to address some of the ...