The American Institutes for Research (AIR) has issued a policy brief summarizing the findings of its research on structuring instructional resources and practices for full-day kindergarten programs to increase children's reading achievement and better prepare them for first grade.
Elementary school students who participated in First 5 LA's Family Literacy Initiative before they began kindergarten exhibited better performance on the California Standards Tests (CST) in English language arts and mathematics than their peers, according to new findings from an eight-year evaluation of the initiative by ...
Jay Mathews, the award-winning Washington Post education reporter, columnist, and blogger, has written a new book that examines the national effort in the 1990s to expose all students to Algebra I in ninth grade. The War Against Dummy Math: How Seven School Districts Changed U.S. Education by Embracing Algebra ...
The amount of financial aid given to community college students in Louisiana through Pell Grants and other assistance had no significant impact on their academic success, according to new study by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and Noel-Levitz that was conducted for the Louisiana Board of Regents. ...
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) has met and exceeded the first year targets for the two Commitments to Action that were made at the 2008 annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). AIR was part of three commitments, which included joining forces with Deworm the World to help ...
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) hosted a conference in Manhattan on November 10, 2010 that featured leading education researchers who presented the results of the New York City Education Reform Retrospective, an examination of the landmark Children First Initiative aimed at reforming New York City's public schools. The invitational ...
AIR today announced the promotions of six senior executives – Jon Cohen, Mark Kutner, Marilyn Moon, Laura Salganik, Steve Kromer, and Sabrina Laine – effective January 1, 2011.
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) and Learning Point Associates were selected by four of the highest rated Investing in Innovation (i3) federal grant applicants to evaluate the efficacy of their programs in improving student achievement and increasing teacher effectiveness.
As Dennis Walcott begins his tenure as chancellor of New York City’s public school system, a new book by leading education scholars offers insights into the strengths and weaknesses of the City’s ambitious “Children First” school reform efforts conducted from 2002 through 2010 under the leadership of Joel Klein, the ...
The California Collaborative on District Reform, an initiative of the American Institutes for Research (AIR), has issued a policy and practice brief exploring the district perspective on school turnaround in eight California school districts. “Beyond the School: Exploring a Systemic Approach to School Turnaround,” suggests a more systemic approach to ...