Last Friday, President Obama announced a plan to make community college free for millions of students. Andrew Gillen and Thomas Weko argue the pros and cons of the plan.
The First 1000 Most Critical Days program was designed to provide women in Zambia with a host of maternal and infant health supports. In this Q&A, Hannah Ring provides insight into how the program worked and the challenges of bundling multiple interventions.
Young children experience various types of early care and education environments the year before they enter kindergarten. This report examines data to explore relationships between children’s primary care and education arrangements the year before kindergarten and their academic skills and learning behaviors at kindergarten entry. ...
AIR is currently investigating the costs associated with the use of text messaging systems aimed at increasing community college student enrollment and persistence in Kentucky, Arizona, Alabama, and New Mexico.
With transitional kindergarten now fully implemented in California, AIR has published a new report examining program features, including teacher qualifications, classroom structure and instructional content.
The Science of Learning and Development (SoLD) initiative began in 2016 with a shared commitment to a better and more equitable education for each and every child—and a hypothesis that a synthesis of the knowledge from multiple disciplines could provide critical insights and solutions to persistent and growing inequity and ...
This collection of policy briefs was prepared for Getting from Facts to Policy: A California Education Policy Convening, hosted by EdSource in October 2007.
Six researchers for the American Institutes for Research (AIR) have been selected to give presentations at the ProLiteracy Worldwide 2007 Annual Conference in Alexandria, Virginia on Nov. 7-10. The nonprofit ProLiteracy Worldwide ...
Using extant data provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, AIR employed a comparative interrupted time series design to examine the impact of full-day kindergarten on student behavior and attendance in kindergarten as well as on their later reading and mathematics achievement in Grade 3. ...
This report explores three questions about the Common Core State Standards in California, and provides recommendations and conclusions based on a two-day symposium convened to answer those questions.