Enrollment in Advanced Courses (ACs) during high school is associated with college and career readiness and early college success, especially for students of color and low-income students of all races.
The Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform (CEEDAR) Center’s primary objective is to partner with states to provide opportunities to learn for teachers and leaders.
Knowledge of comparative analysis of intraclass correlations (ICCs) forms an important tool to properly design impact evaluations of development interventions, especially cluster randomized control trials, by ensuring that an evaluation has sufficient statistical power. This paper takes an important step towards helping researchers to accurately estimate appropriate sample sizes for ...
Parents and students want to know: Who or what is to blame for the skyrocketing (up 50 percent in 10 years) cost of a college education? In this blog post, Donna Desrochers delves into a new analysis from AIR’s Delta Cost Project that breaks down staffing and compensation changes ...
In this personal essay, AIR Principal Researcher Patricia Garcia-Arena shares her memories of being an English learner in preschool and elementary school—and how early literacy experiences can be better for ELs today, thanks to evidence-based instructional practices.
According to a recent study by AIR, teachers and school leaders in the Newark Public Schools had positive views of its overhauled evaluation system, but only one in four teachers viewed a new compensation structure as “reasonable, fair and appropriate.” The report, the first to come out of a three-year ...
This online module describes why school mental health is important and offers best practices on how to develop, implement, and sustain a comprehensive school mental health program.
AIR was instrumental in developing key U.S. data for Education at a Glance 2016, a report released today by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The report analyzes the educational systems of 35 OECD and 11 partner countries on educational measures ranging from enrollment and graduation to employment ...
The initiatives to enhance adult learning program accountability and assessment systems of the following states are described in this paper: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Oregon, Texas, Washington, West Virginia.
AIR, in conjunction with Carilion Medical Center, is developing a series of socio-technical probabilistic risk assessment (ST-PRA) models to evaluate the effectiveness of team training in health care.