Legislation in the early 1990’s reflected renewed focus on the role adult education served in preparing adults for postsecondary education and the workforce and recognition that a professionalized system of teacher education and training was essential to achieve these ends. PRO-NET 2000 focused on the development and dissemination of competencies ...
Postsecondary administrators interested in serving parenting adult learners need to know more about them and the supports they need in their pursuit and completion of postsecondary credentials. This project leverages new data from AIR’s recent survey of adult learners and one-on-one interviews with a subset of parenting adult learners. ...
Career and technical education (CTE) continues to gain traction with state and national policymakers, researchers, and educators across the country—evidenced by the creation of a federally funded center investigating CTE programs: the Career and Technical Education Research Network. AIR is leading this research network partnership under the direction of principal ...
Education finance experts from AIR will present on a variety of topics at the 48th annual Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) conference, March 23-25 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Denver, Co. AEFP is dedicated to the promotion of research and partnerships that can inform education policy and ...
Using data from the 1991, 1995, and 1999 Adult Education Surveys of the National Household Education Surveys Program to examine participation rates in adult education over time, this report examines participation among different groups of adults for different types of adult education.
Megan J. Austin, a researcher at AIR, is the recipient of the 2019 Dissertation Award from Division L of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).Her dissertation, High School Curricular Intensity: Inequalities in Access and Returns Over Three Cohorts, includes three papers that develop a new measure of the quantity and ...
AIR is convening a network of communities from California, Florida, New York, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington that want to develop community-based research-practice partnerships in order to focus educational improvement efforts after the pandemic.
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 ...
Experts with AIR will explore a variety of education research and finance topics during the 42nd annual Association for Education Finance and Policy conference in Washington, DC, March 16-18. This year’s conference theme is “Education Policy and Research in the Post-Obama Era,” and will focus on how the leadership shift ...
The COVID-19 and Equity in Education: Longitudinal Deep Dive project in creating an in-depth view of how states, districts, and their communities—especially those with higher percentages of Black and Latino students and students experiencing poverty—responded to the pandemic's effect on K-12 learning opportunities. ...