New research briefs on STEM Ph.D.'s shed light on two topics: the most gender imbalanced academic fields in which Ph.D.'s are awarded, and how debt is tied to graduate school funding patterns. The first study found that, in the STEM field, animal sciences and mathematics had far more men earning ...
AIR assisted the National Center for Education Statistics in producing Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2018. As part of its work, AIR staff developed 14 of the 16 update indicators in the report and authored two of the three spotlights, including Use, Availability, and Perceived Harmfulness of Opioids Among ...
This spotlight takes a look at the history of Title I, how the program has changed over time, and how it affects children, schools, families and education policy. Experts weigh in on the program's past and future in interviews, briefs, and blogs.
As schools prepare to welcome students and educators back for the 2021-2022 school year, there are a number of pandemic-related issues to address and consider. Our experts offer their insights into these crucial issues and we provide some links to helpful resources and information.
On February 12th, a New York Times story linked to a video of a teacher in a well-known New York City charter school losing her temper and humiliating a first grader. In this blog post, Angela Minnici and David Osher contend that the video and some reactions to it reveal ...
In this video interview, Joyce Burrell, AIR principal investigator and juvenile justice program leader, talks about how people under 18 have better outcomes when they remain in the community with supports.
Income inequality is substantial for people 65 and over, but less pronounced than it would be without Social Security and Medicare. A new brief offers a look at what the distribution of financial resources would be like in their absence, and addresses how proposed changes should be analyzed.
Trisha H. Borman is a managing director at AIR. Dr. Borman's expertise is in education research methodology, and she is deeply knowledgeable and practiced in a range of analytic approaches. Currently, she is principal investigator of two multisite randomized controlled trials funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Dr. Borman ...