Provides research, evaluation, consulting, and technical assistance services that contribute to the lifelong process of learning and improving personal performance.

Produces and disseminates information to provide motivation and tools to enable individuals to make informed decisions about health issues.

Develops and implements education testing programs that benefit students, parents and public officals.

Works with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the government's primary source for collecting and analyzing data about public education.

Helps to provide all children with access to a quality education, and empowers people, organizations, and communities to bring about social change.

Is committed to helping clients improve the effectiveness of their workforce through a wide range of management, organizational, and business improvement efforts.

Produces, maintains and disseminates systematic reviews of the effects of social and behavioral interventions.

Higher Education Costs and Prices

Current concern over the price of a college education in the United States is not new. Over the years, Congress has issued numerous mandates and commissions to examine and explain escalating college costs and issues of affordability. AIR has taken the lead on a number of key studies and reports that have helped to clarify how colleges and universities spend their money, the impact of financial aid on both college costs and prices, and policies and practices that contribute to spiraling costs. Work for the National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education resulted in the report, Straight Talk about College Costs and Prices, a volume used in a number of higher education finance courses.