In 2013, the State of Indiana addressed prison overcrowding by adopting legislation providing alternative sentencing for lower-level nonviolent felonies, and increasing the proportion of offenders under correctional supervision in the community. The new law allows many sentences to be fully suspended, but is tougher on violent offenses by increasing the ...
Subsidies for public higher education institutions have hit a 10-year low while students for the first time pay on average half or more of their education’s cost, finds a report by the Delta Cost Project at the American Institutes for Research (AIR). Community colleges, the analysis also shows, are posting ...
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. ...
The purpose of this project is to plan, research, design, and execute the annual Indicators of School Crime and Safety, a flagship report co-sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Education, health and social policy experts with the American Institutes for Research (AIR) are available to discuss issues raised by President Barack Obama in his final State of the Union Address, including efforts to cut college costs, curb gun violence and make healthcare more affordable. AIR’s experts are available to ...
Dr. David Osher, a vice president at the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and an expert on issues involving children's social and emotional development and learning, will be the featured speaker on October 18 at the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education (DLC) in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada as ...
Dr. Gary W. Phillips, a chief scientist at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), will participate in a forum on "Remaining Competitive in a Flat World: The Crisis in American Education and Its Implications for the Economy." The Friday, June 27, 2008 event is made possible by The Library of ...