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.
The Midwest Comprehensive Center provided technical assistance to the state education agencies (SEAs) of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin with a focus on building the capacity of the SEA to support districts and schools to ensure that all students graduate high school ready for college or a career. Technical assistance ...
Under a grant funded by Walmart, AIR conducted a scan of free college tuition program websites in spring 2021. This scan culminated in a report, a downloadable database of programs, a webinar, and this interactive map that explores how free college tuition programs for adults might better leverage employers in ...
Join the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and The George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development for the first in a series of seminars on what the national attainment agenda means for individuals.
Sarah D. Sahni has more than 15 years of experience in research design, quantitative analysis, and project management. She has led efforts to establish and refine processes for conducting systematic reviews of evaluation rigor and findings for multiple projects including the U.S. Department of Education’s Mathematics and Science Partnerships and ...
Community colleges serve many critical purposes for residents within their local service areas by providing relatively low-cost, open-access postsecondary education and workforce-focused training. Given the hyperlocal enrollment of community college students and their primarily economic reasons for choosing to enroll in college, place-based measures of economic value are increasingly important ...
AIR partnered with Fisk and Vanderbilt Universities to research and disseminate information about the Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to-PhD Bridge Program, an initiative that supports diversity and inclusion in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) postsecondary programs.
In this blog post, Zeyu Xu discusses findings from his study in Kentucky, the first state to implement the Common Core State Standards, from the encouraging findings about student achievement during the transition from the old standards to caveats about whether the achievement gains were caused by the new ones. ...
This first brief in a series about income share agreements looks at the potential of ISAs to serve low-income undergraduate students by examining the underwriting criteria used to select ISA recipients, estimating the size of the ISA market given its current structure and funding providers, and estimating the number of ...
AIR supports the Postsecondary, Adult, and Career Education Division (PACE) program in measuring participation in education and training for work, and in quantifying the outcomes of postsecondary education and student indebtedness.