How do the condition, design, and use of facilities affect student achievement, teacher quality, teacher retention, and community support? In this blog post, Mark Schneider notes that this is a critical issue that too few understand, and suggests we need to know much more about the condition of our school ...
AIR is working with the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity and Accountability to examine a rarely studied aspect of higher education finance: how colleges and universities spend money.
College students now expect tuition bills 4 to 6 percent higher than they paid the year before. That often means students in four-year public universities pay several hundred dollars more annually while students at private universities shell out upwards of a thousand dollars more each year. What is all this ...
Join experts from the University of Oregon and the University of Louisville for an AIR-hosted two-part webinar series designed to help researchers become better consumers of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. The series will provide an introduction to systematic reviews, highlight standards for top-quality reviews, and provide resources for learning about ...
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.
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.
As the national economy expands in areas of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), the teaching of this content has become vital for adults to succeed in the workplace. AIR developed new and innovative ways to improve the teaching of STEM content to adult education students using open educational resources ...
Dean Gerdeman has twenty years' experience in education research. Read about what he considers the past, present, and future of education in the United States, including virtual schooling, teacher shortages, and the long-term outcomes of the pandemic.
The AIR National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) research team has conducted four studies focused on relating student motivational variables to NAEP achievement in reading, mathematics, and science across different grade levels in three of the studies and exploring its relationship to students’ choice of a science, technology, engineering, and ...
Linda Lin is a researcher at AIR with experience in designing and conducting education research and evaluation studies. Dr. Lin specializes in experimental and quasi-experimental study design and quantitative methodology, with a particular interest in casual inference methods, multilevel modeling and data mining. She also has extensive experience in developing ...