AIR’s Jane Hannaway Participates in Panel Discussion at the 2011 Broad Prize Ceremony

Washington, D.C. – Jane Hannaway, a vice president at the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and director of the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), participated in a panel discussion on trends in student achievement that began an event announcing the winner of the 2011 Broad Prize for Urban Education, which was awarded to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District.

In addition to Hannaway, other members of the panel included: Carl Cohn, clinical professor of urban school leadership at Claremont Graduate University and former superintendent of schools in San Diego and Long Beach; Christopher Cross, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education and former member of AIR’s Board of Directors; and Frederick Hess, director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

The Broad Prize of $550,000 in college scholarships was presented to Charlotte-Mecklenburg by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Three $150,000 awards for scholarships were presented to the other finalists – Broward County Public Schools and Miami-Dade County Public Schools, both in Florida, and the Ysleta Independent School District in El Paso, Texas.

About AIR
Established in 1946, with headquarters in Washington, D.C., the American Institutes for Research (AIR) is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization that conducts behavioral and social science research and delivers technical assistance both domestically and internationally in the areas of health, education, and workforce productivity. For more information, visit www.air.org.

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