A new free web tool created by CollegeMeasures.org, a joint venture of AIR and Matrix Knowledge Group, makes it easier to review the U.S. Department of Education's "Gainful Employment" data on whether the cost of career training programs at colleges and other institutions complies with federal standards. ...
Since 2007, the MTSS Center has been a national leader in supporting states, districts, and schools across the country in implementing tiered support systems that address students’ academic, behavioral, social, and emotional needs.
A new report from the Delta Cost Project at AIR—Academic Spending Versus Athletic Spending: Who Wins?—also shows that athletic costs increased at least twice as fast as academic spending, on a per-capita basis, across each of the three Division I subdivisions between 2005 and 2010.
Money Magazine partnered with Dr. Mark Schneider, President of College Measures and a vice president of the American Institutes for Research (AIR), to develop the magazine’s “Best Colleges Rankings,” an online tool to help students and their families assess which colleges provide the most value during college and after graduation. ...
To advance the production of high-quality information on the economic costs and benefits of implementing educational and other social programs, experts from AIR, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University convened a panel of experts in designing and conducting economic evaluations of educational and social programs to develop the Standards ...
Funded by the Florida state Legislature, the Community Partnership Schools (CPS) model aims to provide students and their families with access to a wide variety of learning opportunities and health and wellness supports. In partnership with the Center for Community Schools at the University of Central Florida, AIR is evaluating ...
The growth of the postsecondary competency-based education (CBE) ecosystem is contingent on CBE programs demonstrating that they fulfill core value propositions for students, including improving access, success, quality, and affordability. To support program leaders and researchers in building evidence about student outcomes in CBE programs, AIR and the Institute for ...
Taxpayer subsidies that cover the operating costs of most colleges and universities ranges from around $8,000 to more than $100,000 for each bachelor's degree awarded, with most public institutions averaging more than $60,000 per degree, according to an analysis by AIR and Nexus Research and Policy Center. ...
This study examines differences in postsecondary pathways, college certificate and degree attainment, and employment outcomes for students with different demographic characteristics and attending schools of differing urbanicity. The study used the Minnesota Statewide Longitudinal Education Data System, employment data, and earnings data to explore students’ pathways one year and six ...
In this commentary originally published in The Tennesseean, AIR's Mark Schneider explains that data show many less-selective “regional” campuses—often little known outside their home state—are putting their students on a path to wages equal to those earned by graduates of state flagship universities. ...