Education - All Reports and Products
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Monday, October 25, 2010
Report: International Benchmarking: State Education Performance Standards
International Benchmarking: State Education Performance Standards provides policymakers international benchmarks against which they can compare and monitor the educational performance of students.
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Monday, October 11, 2010
Report: Finishing the First Lap: The Cost of First-Year Student Attrition in America’s Four-Year Colleges and Universities
Nationally, only about 60 percent of students graduate from four-year colleges and universities within six years. According to an analysis by AIR vice president Mark Schneider, more than $9 billion was spent by state and federal governments to support students at four-year colleges and universities who left school before their sophomore year during a five-year period.
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Report: Study of Teacher Preparation in Early Reading Instruction
The final report of a study of teacher preparation in early reading instruction describes pre-service teachers' perceptions about the content of their training programs and summarizes their scores on an assessment of their knowledge of the essential components of reading instruction, as defined in the Reading First legislation.
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Report: Managing Educator Talent: Promising Practices and Lessons from Midwestern States
Between 2009 and 2010, seven Midwestern states—Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin—passed significant legislation addressing teacher preparation, licensure, and evaluation. AIR conducted a review of this legislation, analyzing each state’s system for developing, recruiting, and retaining effective teachers and leaders.
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Report: Public Elementary and Secondary School Student Enrollment and Staff From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2008-09
This report presents national- and state-level data on student enrollment by grade and by race/ethnicity within grade, the numbers of teachers and other education staff, and several student/staff ratios for the 2008-09 school year.
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Sunday, August 1, 2010
Report: Connecting Research About English Language Learners to Practice
This Connecting Research to Practice brief helps educators make informed decisions about English language learners (ELLs) by providing an overview of key research findings, highlighting federal policies related to ELLs, outlining district-level and school-level action opportunities, and listing resources that offer more information.
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Friday, July 16, 2010
Report: More Females than Males Earned College Degrees in 2008, According to NCES Report
A new report on racial and ethnic group education trends from NCES, and co-authored by AIR experts, has found that in 2008, U.S. females earned more college degrees than males within each racial/ethnic group, and Black females received more than twice as many degrees as Black males.
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Thursday, July 1, 2010
Report: The Enhanced Reading Opportunities Study Final Report
This final report details the outcomes of the Enhanced Reading Opportunities (ERO) demonstration, which evaluated two supplemental literacy programs targeted to ninth grade students whose reading skills were at least two years below grade level.
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Friday, June 25, 2010
Report: Common ELL Terms and Definitions
This glossary is a resource for professionals involved in English language learner (ELL) education, and represents a first step toward developing a comprehensive catalogue of terms and definitions to aid educators in their work with the increasing population of ELLs across the country.
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Friday, June 18, 2010
Report: English Language Learners - Annotated Bibliography
This annotated bibliography represents a first step toward compiling a comprehensive overview of current research on issues related to English language learners. It is intended to be a resource for researchers, policymakers, administrators, and educators.
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Report: Common Assumptions vs. the Evidence: English Language Learners in the United States
The primary purpose of this guide is to discuss some common beliefs about English language learners (ELLs) and compare them with the relevant research literature to address the assumptions that often underlie ELL instruction.
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Tool: Teaching Soft Skills Through Workplace Simulations in Classroom Settings
This technical guide describes how to teach soft skills, such as teamwork, problem-solving, and critical thinking, in the classroom setting.
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
Report: California's K-12 Education During a Fiscal Crisis
This report compares California’s education resources and student outcomes to those of other states and finds that the state’s education system was among the leanest in the nation prior to the recent recession.
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Saturday, May 1, 2010
Report: Out of the Debate and Into the Schools: Comparing Practices and Strategies in Traditional, Pilot and Charter Schools in the City of Boston
The findings of this study suggest that middle and high school students who attend charter schools significantly outperform their counterparts attending traditional schools, while the differences in student performance between charter and pilot schools were mixed.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Report: Title III Evaluation Briefs
These three evaluation briefs were written during the early stages of the National Evaluation of Title III Implementation, the first in-depth U.S. Department of Education-funded study of Title III since the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was reauthorized in 2001.
