In this blog post, Mark Schneider addresses the dilemma prospective college students face when the school of their choice does not offer a tuition guarantee, and gives advice about where to find the necessary data.
The Honduran education system, although free and compulsory for nine years, faces many uphill challenges. The MIDEH project supports the government of Honduras to improve education quality by building and sustaining national standards-based educational reform. Through a collaborative effort between USAID and the Secretariat of Education in Honduras, the project ...
AIR examined New York’s post–COVID-19 Enacted Budget and compared it to the Executive Budget, released in January, to understand the effect of COVID-19 on state aid received by districts, with a focus on how differences between the two budgets related to district poverty levels. Next, AIR conducted longitudinal analysis looking ...
The Indigenous Student Identification (ISI) project, a collaboration of the Indigenous Education State Leaders Network (IESLN) and the AIR Equity Initiative, has released a new report and interactive map exploring K–12 public school Indigenous student identification across the United States.
Dr. Manuel Pastor, a professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and an expert on immigrant integration and the social conditions facing low-income urban communities, has been unanimously elected to the Board of Directors of the American Institutes for Research (AIR), one of the world's ...
Recent research found that the number one factor driving success among the students studied is educational aspiration. In order words, those students who believe they will go on to a master’s degree and beyond are, in fact, more likely to succeed. Maria Stephens asserts that understanding the factors that influence ...
In collaboration with our partners, government leaders, and field experts, AIR has worked to strengthen the evidence base, provide evidence-backed equity resources, and support equal access to programs that can help people and communities thrive.
This study compares the mathematics frameworks and item pools used in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) with the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and vice versa. In addition to that, differences in item features between the two assessments are described.
Steven Hurlburt and Mark Schneider of the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will discuss key issues facing higher education's stakeholders during separate appearances at the May 17-19, 2012 National Seminar of the Education Writers Association, where leading U.S. education journalists meet to strengthen their writing and reporting skills, learn from ...
The Indigenous Student Identification Project will work directly with state and local education agencies, tribes, federal agencies, and national Indigenous education stakeholders to improve equity through better Indigenous student identification policies and practices.