All Reports
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Monday, May 20, 2013
California and the Common Core State Standards: Early Steps, Early Opportunities
This report explores three questions about the Common Core State Standards in California, and provides recommendations and conclusions based on a two-day symposium convened to answer those questions.
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Monday, May 6, 2013
The Price of a Science Ph.D.
A recent report from AIR's Center for STEM Education & Innovation found that financing a Ph.D. in the sciences results in high levels of debt, particularly for underrepresented minorities.
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
Higher Education Pays: The Initial Earnings of Graduates of Texas Colleges and Universities Who Are Working in Texas
The earnings of recent bachelor's and master's recipients in Texas vary not only by degree but by specific program and institution, according to a recent study prepared by College Measures, a joint venture of AIR and the Matrix Knowledge Group.
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Monday, April 22, 2013
Supporting Children and Families After Traumatic Events
Recent events such as those in Oklahoma, Boston, and Texas can leave people—especially children—feeling sad, angry, out of control, overwhelmed, and unsafe. Though recovering may take time, it is possible, especially with support from family, friends, and significant others. In 2006, the National Center on Family Homelessness developed a resource, Understanding Traumatic Stress in Children, to help.
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Friday, April 12, 2013
The Adult Education Training and Education Survey (ATES) Pilot Study
As part of a larger inter-agency effort to develop new federal data on adults’ education, training, and credentials for work, the National Center for Education Statistics and AIR developed and pilot-tested of a set of survey items on industry-recognized certification, state licensure, and educational certificates.
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
On the Road to Well-Being: The Development of a Communication Framework for Sexual Health
This report, published in the peer-reviewed journal Public Health Reports in a special supplemental issue about sexual health, describes the results of AIR's research and testing about how best to communicate with the public about sexual health issues.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Teacher Practice and Student Outcomes in Arts-Integrated Learning Settings: A Review of Literature
AIR conducted a review of key literature in 2011–12 exploring the measurement of teacher practice and student learning in arts-integrated settings through a project funded by the Department of Education and offered by the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Instruction Across the High School—College Divide (2009)
This latest report for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation examines how Early College Schools (ECS) can best prepare high school students for college success. The report presents findings from high school and college instructional data collected during site visits to ECS classrooms in the 2008–09 academic year, as part of the Early College High School Initiative (ECHSI).
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Higher Education Pays: The Initial Earnings of Graduates from Colorado’s Colleges and Universities Working in Colorado
This report show that, in Colorado, higher education pays off for those who earn postsecondary credentials. Graduates with postsecondary degrees working in Colorado after graduation can average as much as $20,000 more than high school graduates.
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Research-Based Practices for College and Career Readiness
These case studies show how AIR analyzes data and develops tools to prepare students to be college and career ready—bridging the gap between research and practice.
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Predictive Indicators for College and Career Readiness
Case studies of work in Massachusetts and the U.S. Virgin Islands show how AIR provides educators with the research to understand how data can be used appropriately to predict student failure and success.
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
The Project Talent Twin and Sibling Study
This article, recently published in Twin Research and Human Genetics, focuses on Project Talent’s unique design that includes twins, siblings of twins, and siblings in other families all nested within schools. Project Talent is a national longitudinal study of about 377,000 students who were in grades 9-12 in 1960.
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Monday, March 4, 2013
Addressing Perception in the Delivery of Education in Conflict and Crisis
This article, published in Winter 2013 issue of The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, stresses the importance of identifying how a community views education—whether it is seen as an indomitable evil or a leverageable asset, or both—when providing EFA interventions. How these perceptions are understood and addressed mean the difference between whether education interventions in conflict have any real impact or not.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Developing a Measure of Health Insurance Literacy: Understanding Consumers’ Ability to Choose and Use Insurance
This issue brief describes the findings from interviews with health insurance counselors and other stakeholders about problems consumers face in selecting and using health insurance. It also lays out a strategy to develop an important new tool: a measure of health insurance literacy.
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
Understanding Patterns and Precursors of ELL Success Subsequent to Reclassification
This paper describes a research project which drew on longitudinal student data in two states to examine the validity of existing English Language Learner (ELL) reclassification systems—the process by which ELL students are reclassified as fully English proficient and ready to function without special services.
