AIR will release a new report on international benchmarking for 4th and 8th grade math students on June 16, 2009, which will be followed by a panel discussion that includes Massachusetts Commissioner of Education Mitch Chester and senior officials of the National Governors' Association (NGA) and the National Association of ...
Experts from AIR played an integral role in producing the Digest of Education Statistics: 2014, the 50th in a series released by the National Center for Education Statistics. The Digest, released on April 28, 2016, is a broad compendium of data on American education from prekindergarten through graduate school. It ...
A team of experts from AIR played a key role in writing and producing "The Condition of Education 2011." The congressionally mandated annual report offers a detailed account of all aspects of U.S. education, from early childhood education and student achievement to postsecondary education and school environment. ...
A team of experts from AIR played a key role in writing and producing the Digest of Education Statistics 2011, which was released by the federal National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on June 13, 2012. The Digest is an annual report that provides a compilation of statistical information covering ...
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 ...
This Statistics in Brief analyzes student's participation in summer activities compared by two socioeconomic characteristics - household poverty status and parents' highest level of education. Data for socioeconomic characteristics was gathered from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2010-11 while data related to summer activity participation was collected ...
Despite recent gains in such educational indicators as student enrollment and completion rates, Nicaragua’s primary education system still faced serious challenges with respect to access and quality of education. Project EXCELENCIA focused on strengthening the quality of education at the primary school level in Nicaragua. ...
Over the last decade, educators have become increasingly interested in continuous improvement (CI) as a strategy for reform. For this literature review, AIR set out to locate empirical studies that described the process of implementing CI, as well as studies that analyzed the conditions that foster or limit its use. ...
The Plan, Do, Study, Act Process is central to the improvement of instructional routines. Watch one of the Better Math Teaching Network members in real time and in a real classroom setting introduce the Plan, Do, Study, Act, or PDSA, process.