A team of experts from AIR played a major role in writing and producing The Condition of Education 2013, the annual statistical report on U.S. education released by the National Center for Education Statistics. The congressionally mandated annual report summarizes important developments and trends in U.S. education using the ...
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.
AIR is available to assist states in their efforts to improve education for all their students under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and is committed to applying our expertise in educational programs to helping all students succeed.
Panelists will discuss Race to the Top Assessments: Common Core Standards and Their Impact on Student Testing at the Brookings Institution on Thursday, October 28.
According to an AIR analysis of data from U.S. Department of Education’s early childhood longitudinal studies, America’s public school kindergarten has become dramatically more academic. In this blog post, Jill Walston and Kristin Flanagan describe the data and ask how this affects children who don't have the opportunity to attend ...
Studies have shown that education finance reform that addresses funding equity can improve educational—and life—outcomes, such as higher wages and a lower incidence of adult poverty. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides education leaders with an opportunity to evaluate the fairness of their funding practices.
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The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and TIMSS Advanced assessments are a rich source of data on student performance in math and physics. A team of AIR researchers methodically analyzed these data across multiple assessment cycles and answered some of our questions about them. ...
Experts from the American Institutes for Research will discuss aspects of educational evaluation and testing at the National Council on Measurement in Education’s annual meeting being held April 26-30, 2017 in San Antonio, TX. The conference’s theme is “Advancing Large Scale and Classroom Assessment through Research and Practice” and focuses ...
Parents, teachers, schools, districts, states, and especially students all want schools that prepare graduates to thrive in the 21st century. In this blog post, Anne Mishkind asks what it means to be "college and career ready."
The 2012 Mentoring Enhancement Demonstration program was designed to strengthen existing youth mentoring programs across the United States. In this Q&A, Manolya Tanyu describes the effectiveness of the programmatic enhancements—and the challenges of implementing them across a wide array of youth mentoring organizations. ...