Community colleges are one of the pillars of the workforce development system in the United States. Through our work on community college workforce programs, the PROMISE Center at AIR aims to build a better understanding of what makes effective programs work so that those insights can be applied more broadly ...
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.
In this essay, Matthew Patrick Shaw, an assistant professor of law and public policy and education at Vanderbilt 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.
The Plan, Do, Study, Act Process is central to the improvement of instructional routines. Watch one of the Better Math Teaching Network members in real time and in a real classroom setting introduce the Plan, Do, Study, Act, or PDSA, process.
Under a grant funded by Walmart, AIR conducted a scan of free college tuition program websites in spring 2021. This scan culminated in a report, a downloadable database of programs, a webinar, and this interactive map that explores how free college tuition programs for adults might better leverage employers in ...
The National Research Collaborative on Postsecondary Competency-Based Education and Learning is a community of researchers dedicated to building evidence in support of postsecondary competency-based education and learning. Our priority areas of inquiry are centered on building foundational knowledge for the field, supporting a better understanding of the CBE and CBL ...
On June 29, the Supreme Court ruled that race-conscious college admissions policies are unlawful under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. In our role as a convener of ideas and insights, we are publishing essays from three leading scholars on affirmative action, higher education policy, and diversity. ...
The Guide for Reflecting on Instructional Depth, or GRID, helps teachers reflect on their instruction, identify areas where they can be more student-centered. The four-part video GRID series provides step-by-step guidance for determining students’ depth of mathematical justifications and who is driving those justifications. ...
In this essay, W. Carson Byrd, an associate research scientist in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan, weighs in on the implications of the June 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision on affirmative action and how higher education might move forward. ...
These teaching ideas are instructional routines teachers can implement in their classrooms to help students become more deeply and actively engaged in understanding algebra. The ideas focus on how teachers can help students better engage, defined as making deep mathematical connections, justifying and critiquing mathematical thinking, and solving challenging problems ...