All Reports
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Friday, September 14, 2012
Not Your Mother’s College Affordability Crisis
Rita Kirshstein, director of the Delta Cost Project, discusses college tuition hikes and affordability concerns over the past several decades. Kirshstein explains that that today’s affordability crisis affects many more students and families than earlier ones.
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Thursday, September 6, 2012
AIR Partners with Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium to Create an Online Test Delivery System for States
AIR is partnering with the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, a state-led consortium committed to developing tests that use technology to better measure student knowledge and to make tests accessible to all. The Smarter Balanced tests will be delivered online and include innovative items and performance tasks that take advantage of the potential of technology.
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Condition of Children Birth to Age Five and Status of Early Childhood Services in California
Supported by federal funds, California is developing a comprehensive statewide plan for an integrated early learning system, the California Comprehensive Early Learning Plan (CCELP). In support of the development of this plan, AIR compiled a report describing statistics on the condition of children in California, and analyzing existing research and recommendations on the state’s early childhood services.
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Families Carry Heavier Tuition Load as Funding Falls
As state funding for higher education decreases, more of the burden of the cost of education is shifting to students and their families. A recent article describes the reasons for and implications of this shift.
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Monday, July 16, 2012
Series Overview (Special Series on the Fresno–Long Beach Learning Partnership)
This overview provides an introduction to four briefs developed by AIR about different aspect of the Fresno-Long Beach Learning Partnership, and calls out key lessons for district leaders, policymakers, funders, and researchers.
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Monday, July 16, 2012
Building District Capacity for Data-Informed Leadership (Special Series on the Fresno–Long Beach Learning Partnership)
This brief explains how the two districts in the Fresno-Long Beach Learning Partnership are building a multifaceted approach to monitoring the progress of their students and their systems.
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Providing Services and Supports for Youth Who Are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Intersex or Two-Spirit (LGBTQI2-S)
AIR's Jeff Poirier and Karen Francis co-authored this practice brief, Providing Services and Supports for Youth Who Are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Intersex or Two-Spirit (LGBTQI2-S), which describes key strategies, policies, and practices for professionals and systems to provide more culturally and linguistically competent care for LGBTQI2-S youth.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
AIR Experts Author Report on Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in School Accountability Systems
A new report by experts at AIR offers descriptive information on the inclusion of students with disabilities in school accountability systems under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
New Report on Trends in U.S Education Finds Fewer High School Students Are Employed Compared to 1990
AIR experts played a key role in producing the latest edition of The Condition of Education 2012, a congressionally mandated annual report that provides a definitive look at developments and trends in U.S. education. Released by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), this year’s report takes a close look at high schools and how they have changed over the last few decades. The report found that only 16 percent of high school students were employed in 2010, compared to 32 percent in 1990.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
National Evaluation of Title III Implementation—Report on State and Local Implementation
Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) provides funds to states and districts to support ELL students’ successful attainment of English language proficiency and state academic standards. The U.S. Department of Education commissioned AIR to evaluate the Title III program to determine how well states are implementing its provisions, how state policy translates into district practices, and how well ELLs are mastering grade-level content and improving their English language proficiency. The study included a survey of English language proficiency standards; interviews with state Title III and assessment directors; a nationally representative survey of districts receiving Title III funds; in-depth case studies in twelve districts nested in five states; an analysis of longitudinal student achievement data; and an analysis of trends in state achievement.
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Technical Assistance Partnership Publishes Three New Issue Briefs in Juvenile Justice Resource Series
To build system of care communities’ capacities to serve youth who are currently involved in or at-risk of becoming involved in the juvenile justice system, AIR's Technical Assistance Partnership, along with the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice, recently published three new issue briefs.
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Can Financial Aid Improve Student Success at Louisiana’s Community Colleges?
A report from AIR and Noel-Levitz investigates the relationship between levels of financial aid and student success in Louisiana community colleges, with a focus on Pell Grant recipients. Success is measured by whether a student earned a certificate or an associate’s degree within three years of enrolling as a first-time full-time student or transferred to a four-year Louisiana university within the same timeframe.
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Monday, April 30, 2012
The Ripple Effect
After providing a short historical overview of the changing role of school principals, the brief presents two policy perspectives on principal effectiveness and, finally, introduces a research-based framework for defining principal effectiveness.
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Monday, April 23, 2012
Measuring School Climate for Gauging Principal Performance
This policy brief provides principal evaluation system designers information about the technical soundness and cost (i.e., time requirements) of publicly available school climate surveys.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Hawaii Race to the Top Evaluation
The Race to the Top (RTTT) initiative, part of the larger federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, provided an unprecedented amount of federal competitive grant funding to push educational systems toward innovation through the use of coherent and comprehensive reforms. AIR is conducting a mixed-method evaluation for the state of Hawaii, examining the extent to which the state’s RTTT program has been implemented as planned and is meeting its key benchmarks, especially for RTTT resource usage and participation. AIR evaluators are analyzing which changes in policy and professional practice have been associated with implementation as well as the resulting impact on student performance. The evaluation is providing timely, actionable information, supporting continuous improvement and enabling RTTT leaders, participants, and stakeholders to judge the value and worth of the initiative and its components.
