Parents, teachers, schools, districts, states, and especially students all want schools that prepare graduates to thrive in the 21st century. In this blog post, Anne Mishkind asks what it means to be "college and career ready."
A team of experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) played a key role in writing and producing "Higher Education: Gaps in Access and Persistence Study," a congressionally mandated report that documents the gaps in access to and completion of higher education by minority males. Released by the federal ...
How can we better support young people as they learn the skills they need to succeed in school, work, and life? These resources focus on social and emotional development outside the classroom.
In this blog post, Mark Schneider addresses the dilemma prospective college students face when the school of their choice does not offer a tuition guarantee, and gives advice about where to find the necessary data.
Most students make the investment in higher education because they want a better chance to land a good career and higher earnings. But as they enter the labor market, some graduates earn far more than others. This report sheds light on the postsecondary earnings of recent graduates and completers from ...
Governors are called upon to lead and improve their states' education systems, addressing a number of diverse and changing issues. In this open letter, AIR's Angela Minnici, director of the Education Policy Center and the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders, sets out seven action steps for 2015 to help ...
In this brief, AIR researchers offer a potential pathway to understanding how learning and development happen in quality afterschool and summer programs. This pathway emphasizes three key competencies—relationship skills, a sense of agency, and identity development—that research suggests can facilitate learning and development in other areas. ...
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.
Elizabeth Zachry Rutschow is a managing researcher at AIR. She is an expert in postsecondary and adult education reform and has led many large-scale, mixed-methods evaluations of community college and adult education reforms. She is dedicated to using qualitative and quantitative research to improve equity and the prosperity and well-being of ...
AIR Vice President and Institute Fellow Mark Schneider will testify at a hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight on Tuesday, September 13, 2016, entitled “Back to School: A Review of Tax Exempt College and University Endowments.” Schneider is expected to discuss the extent ...