This policy brief provides principal evaluation system designers information about the technical soundness and cost (i.e., time requirements) of publicly available school climate surveys.
This report shows the results of AIR's review of the Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) program's evaluation portfolio.
Dr. Julia Lane, a senior managing economist at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), will be awarded the Gutenberg Chair at a ceremony on January 24, 2014 in Strasbourg, France, for her work, “Examining the Results of Research Investments: A Multi Country Study.”
AIR is conducting the independent evaluation of The New Teacher Project’s Teacher Effectiveness and Certification (TEACh) Initiative. The initiative focuses on preparing teachers for high-needs placements in urban schools and includes pre-service training, in-service training, and assessments of teacher effectiveness. ...
The First 5 LA Family Literacy Initiative, which began in 2002, is a comprehensive program to promote language and literacy development for children and their parents, and to promote parenting knowledge and skills, with a goal of greater economic self-sufficiency among low-income families in Los Angeles County. ...
The National School District and Network Grants Program is based on the premise that organizations external to the public school system can catalyze the creation of small high schools that will produce better and more equitable outcomes for students. Although it is still early to look at outcomes, the evaluation ...
Together with our partners, AIR has conducted the two largest studies of the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act to date: The National Longitudinal Study of the No Child Left Behind Act (NLS-NCLB) and the Study of State Implementation of NCLB (SSI-NCLB).
Singaporean students ranked first in the world in mathematics on the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)-2003; U.S. students ranked 16th out of 46 participating nations at grade 8. This exploratory study compares key features of the Singapore and U.S. mathematics systems in the primary grades, when students ...
This brief highlights recent trends in athletic and academic spending at public Division I colleges and universities, which show that athletic departments spend far more per athlete than institutions spend to educate the average student—typically three to six times as much.
A national review of community colleges and their graduates' financial return on investment finds that California and Texas have the most institutions with graduates in the top tier of wage earners. Thirty states have some community colleges whose graduates' median net lifetime earnings trail those of the ...
