A relatively new college funding model designed as an alternative to loans is unlikely to help most students, particularly poor students who need it most, according to a new study. The AIR study examines the potential of income share agreements, which essentially allow investors to buy stock in students, to ...
A team of experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) played a key role in writing and producing "Higher Education: Gaps in Access and Persistence Study," a congressionally mandated report that documents the gaps in access to and completion of higher education by minority males. Released by the federal ...
In 2005 AIR partnered with Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to identify the core indicators that schools must actively manage to support student success, and develop an instrument to assess these indicators. Based on consensus from a meeting of national experts and district staff, and refined through a series of 22 ...
A new study co-authored by AIR expert Mark Schneider finds that 51 percent of Hispanic college students earn an undergraduate degree in six years, compared with 59 percent of white students. Hispanic students graduate at lower rates than their white peers across similarly ranked institutions – from the nation's least ...
Marilyn Moon, a senior vice president and director of the Health Program at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), will deliver the keynote address at Marietta College's 176th Founders Day Celebration. The event, focused around the college's yearlong emphasis on health and wellness, will be held Thursday, February 17, 2011 ...
Attaining some kind of college degree is the surest way to improve one’s earnings in the United States. But many college students earn credentials with little labor market value or don’t attain any credential at all. Many—especially in our community colleges—could get into better colleges than they end up attending. ...
Results indicating that teacher certification and subject-area expertise were associated with higher mathematics test scores will be among the findings released this week by the American Institutes for Research at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.
Since 2007, the MTSS Center has been a national leader in supporting states, districts, and schools across the country in implementing tiered support systems that address students’ academic, behavioral, social, and emotional needs.
Financial and performance trends suggest that, five years after the onset of the recession, higher education finally began to show signs of a fiscal recovery. But are students still picking up some of the slack?