Read Write Inc. Phonics and Fresh Start are phonics-based comprehensive literacy programs. Working in partnership with its assessment partner Queens University, Belfast, AIR is implementing a cluster of randomized controlled trials to determine the impact of the programs on various pertinent reading outcomes in the UK. ...
Calculating how much recent graduates earn after completing their degree is one way for policymakers to assess the return on state and federal investments in higher education. It’s also an important consideration for students and families, who want assurance that the burden of student loan debt will be offset by ...
How can research inform and improve literacy in the U.S. and around the world? In honor of International Literacy Day 2018, Terry Salinger, PhD, AIR’s chief scientist for literacy research, answered this question and more.
For more than 15 years, AIR has led the National Reporting System for Adult Education for the Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE). AIR developed the adult education accountability system—the NRS—and from its inception developed a parallel line of technical assistance activities to ensure its effective implementation and use. ...
The AIR Center for Addiction Research and Effective Solutions (AIR CARES) is a multi-disciplinary center dedicated to preventing and reducing the negative consequences of substance misuse.
A report comparing the first-year earnings of graduates with two-year and four-year degrees – as well as those with master's and certificates – from public colleges and universities in Texas finds that the median first-year earnings of certificate holders often exceeds those of graduates from associate's programs. ...
A study by the American Institutes for Research and Noel-Levitz has found that targeting supplemental financial aid to students receiving Pell grants in Louisiana improved retention rates by more than 14 percent.
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 ...
AIR is currently investigating the costs associated with the use of text messaging systems aimed at increasing community college student enrollment and persistence in Kentucky, Arizona, Alabama, and New Mexico.
AIR developed the Massachusetts Early Warning Indicators System (EWIS) for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE) which identifies students who are at-risk of not meeting key benchmarks (e.g., reading by the end of third grade, graduating from high school) along a student's educational trajectory. In 2012 every ...