Only one-third of state education officials say their departments have adequate capacity to help improve low-performing schools as required by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), according to a survey of all 50 states by the American Institutes for Research (AIR).
In this commentary published in the Hill, Dan Goldhaber, AIR vice president and director of CALDER, and John C. White, Louisiana state superintendent of education, discuss the importance of formal mentoring for teachers during their career training.
Project RISE (Realizing Internationals Supports for English Language Learners) aims to improve the educational outcomes of English language learners (ELLs) in Grades 9–12 in two schools identified as persistently low performing by changing teachers’ instructional practices and several key structures in which students and teachers are organized. AIR is providing ...
Dr. Michael Garet and Dr. Kwang Suk Yoon of the American Institutes for Research (AIR) are featured speakers at a February 4 event hosted by the National Staff Development Council (NSDC) to launch a multi-year research project aimed at measuring the effectiveness of teacher professional learning at the state level. ...
The role of today’s principal is changing, as is the principal workforce. Understanding how to better prepare new leaders for the role of principal is an urgent policy concern. The George W. Bush Institute and AIR have partnered to evaluate the impact of five principal preparation programs in the United ...
Although the use of technology in education shows a lot of promise for improving learning outcomes in low-and middle-income countries, the evidence on its impacts is underwhelming. Its effectiveness could, however, be improved if technology were combined with a strong focus on pedagogical practices. This study focuses on the effects ...
From India and Laos to school districts in California, our research, resources, and multimedia provide insight into a wide array of topics across the U.S. and around the world. Explore highlights from our 2017 work.
Even with unemployment rates at historic lows, over 6 million American remain out of work. AIR has an experienced team that is passionate about improving workforce outcomes to expand economic opportunity. We work with both workforce development stakeholders to develop and link the right workers to the right jobs and ...
Dr. Julia Lane, Senior Managing Economist at AIR, will present the keynote paper at a seminar July 9 hosted by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) on the effective use of science and technology investments in developing countries.
Although teachers understand the critical importance of social-emotional learning for their students’ overall development, few educator evaluation systems explicitly address that type of learning. This brief identifies the instructional practices that promote student social-emotional learning, which in turn are critical for student academic learning; and showcases how three popular teacher ...