In the 2020-21 school year, public K-12 student enrollment dropped by 3% nationwide, compared with 2019-20, the school year that marks the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. But this played out differently by state, district, and school among student groups. The COVID-19 and Equity in Education (CEE) Enrollment Explorer is ...
The COVID-19 and Equity in Education (CEE) Enrollment Explorer was developed to help policymakers and educators examine enrollment trends by a range of school, community, and student characteristics. The tool allows users to examine state, regional-, district-, community-, and school-level shifts in student enrollment before and after the onset of ...
The question of whether single-sex schooling is preferable to coeducation for some or all students continues to be hotly debated. This paper evaluates several hypothetical reasons why one has been proposed to be more beneficial than the other.
As the Family Medical Leave Act turned 20 in February, AIR and ZERO TO THREE hosted an event looking at the law’s impact on workers so far and ways to improve family leave policies going forward.
AIR has released an updated consumer guide rating the effectiveness and quality of 22 widely used comprehensive elementary school reform models. The new report, issued one year after the first guide was released, upgrades the ratings of two models to "moderate" on evidence of success in demonstrating positive effects on ...
As ESEA turns 50 this month, the time is ripe to rethink whether the “E” in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is the best place to start. In this blog post, Susan Muenchow discusses the robust research that reveals students are most successful when they get a good jumpstart ...
This spotlight takes a look at the history of Title I, how the program has changed over time, and how it affects children, schools, families and education policy. Experts weigh in on the program's past and future in interviews, briefs, and blogs.
Experts from AIR will present at several sessions during the 2022 Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) conference. The conference will be held September 21-24, 2022 in Arlington, Virginia. Built around the theme “From Reckoning to Racial Justice: Centering Underserved Communities in Research on Educational Effectiveness,” the conference will ...
Jeremy Redford is a principal researcher in the National and International Statistics practice area within the Research and Evaluation program at AIR. His primary responsibilities include leading the Data Development Program project that authors statistical reports for the National Center for Education Statistics. Redford also provides expertise in survey design, ...
In this essay, W. Carson Byrd, an associate research scientist in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan, weighs in on the implications of the June 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision on affirmative action and how higher education might move forward. ...