As the Family Medical Leave Act turns 20 in February, AIR, with sponsorship from ZERO TO THREE, is hosting a panel discussion that looks at the law's impact on workers so far and ways to improve family leave policies going forward. The panel discussion will emphasize paid parental ...
Join the American Council on Education and the American Institutes for Research for a discussion of fresh thinking about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and their potential to spur real change in educational service delivery. Panelists will tackle such questions as what data and analytics are needed ...
On Wednesday, February 6, 2013, Kristin Carman and Jill Mathews Yegian, co-directors of AIR’s Health Policy and Research Group, participated in a briefing hosted by Health Affairs, a leading journal of health policy thought and research.
Student participation in school choice programs authorized by the No Child Left Behind Act was hindered because parents did not receive clear and timely communication from schools, according to a new report issued today by the U.S. Department of Education.
Response to Intervention (RTI) has the capacity to be both a system for providing early interventions to struggling students and a special education diagnostic tool for evaluating and identifying students with specific learning disabilities. A new report authored by researchers at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), as a partner ...
Experts for the American Institutes for Research conducted studies on four issues—the cost of providing an adequate education, special education costs, extraordinarily successful schools and charter schools—as part of an unprecedented "Getting Down to Facts" research project conducted by the nation's leading universities and research institutions for policymakers in California. ...
The AIR study for the first time uses the standards set by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) - known as the nation's "report card" - to measure how U.S. students compare in mathematics and science with students in foreign countries, based on data in the Third International Mathematics ...
Mark Schneider presented a new American Enterprise Institute (AEI) report, Diplomas and Dropouts: Which Colleges Actually Graduate Their Students (and Which Don't).
After five years of effort, states have implemented most of the test-based accountability requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and now must focus their efforts on improving poor-performing schools that ...
A project directed by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) in Egypt, and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has opened the country's largest school complex, a facility benefiting 4,600 students.
