My Future TX, a new bilingual website developed by College Measures in cooperation with leading high school guidance counselors, combines higher education and workforce data of use to students trying to make the right decisions about which Texas college or university best suits their goals.
Ensuring strong alignment between quality standards and afterschool programs requires creative thinking, planning, and collaboration. Afterschool programs that align professional development with quality standards can support staff learning and sustain continuous improvement by reinforcing professional standards and practices. ...
In this essay, Natasha Warikoo, Lenore Stern Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the Department of Sociology at Tufts University, weighs in on the implications of the June 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision on affirmative action and how higher education might move forward.
Though most public school principals believe that effective leadership of their schools requires authority over personnel decisions, they report having little such authority in practice. That's a key finding of a new study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and AIR. Based on a series of interviews with a small ...
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) has issued a policy brief summarizing the findings of its research on structuring instructional resources and practices for full-day kindergarten programs to increase children's reading achievement and better prepare them for first grade.
The annual Indicators of School Crime and Safety report, co-produced by the American Institutes for Research, was released today by the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The report presents the most current data on crime and safety at schools and on college campuses from ...
Demonstrating its ongoing commitment to education research, evaluation, and technical assistance, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) today announced that it will merge with Learning Point Associates, effective August 1, 2010.
Experts with the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will give a series of presentations during AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting June 13-16, 2014 in Minneapolis, including a panel presentation on the use of public deliberation to assess the public’s use of evidence in health care decision making. ...
With the Affordable Care Act open enrollment period starting in November, a national survey by AIR finds that three out of four Americans are confident they know how to use health insurance, but 42 percent say they are not likely or only somewhat likely to review a plan’s details before ...
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) this week released the annual Condition of Education report, a congressionally mandated compendium of multiple data points about all levels of education. AIR provided technical and editorial support for the report, including improvements that make the data more accessible and easier for policymakers, ...