President Barack Obama plans to use his State of the Union address to the nation on Tuesday evening, January 25, 2011 to outline revisions in federal education policy that will support efforts to “out educate” other countries in an effort to spur U.S. economic revival and increase its global competitiveness. ...
Learning Point Associates, an affiliate of AIR, and its partners have been awarded a $3.8 million contract by the U.S. Department of Education to create online Communities of Practice that will engage a broad range of audiences, including teachers and administrators, to use innovative technologies to transform and personalize teaching ...
According to a new report, released by NCES and authored by AIR experts, the standards most states use to determine whether fourth and eighth grade students are proficient in reading and mathematics are set at levels that are equivalent to Basic or Below Basic skills under the standards set by ...
Staff from the American Institutes for Research will participate in the annual conference of the Education Writers Association (EWA) April 7-9, 2011, in New Orleans, La. The association represents journalists throughout the United States who cover education issues.
Dr. Richard A. Smith, an internationally recognized physician credited with improving health care delivery systems in the United States and in developing countries, has retired as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Institutes for Research (AIR). Patricia Gurin, chair of the Board of Directors, praised Smith ...
Gina Burkhardt, an education policy expert and executive vice president at AIR, and Kerstin Le Floch, a principal research analyst at AIR, will be featured speakers at a forum on the future direction of K-12 education policy in light of the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), ...
Special education experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will discuss Response to Intervention (RTI), adolescent literacy, progress monitoring tools, and other issues at the annual conference of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), which is being held April 25-28, 2011 at National Harbor, MD. ...
Demonstrating its ongoing commitment to education research and evaluation, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) today announced that the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) has relocated to AIR, effective July 18, 2011.
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) have created a new examination for assessing the human resource (HR) knowledge of graduating college students seeking HR careers. The first tests will be administered beginning in May 2011.
Experts from AIR played a key role in preparing a new report released June 23, 2011, by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). "Achievement Gaps: How Hispanic and White Students in Public Schools Perform in Mathematics and Reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress" provides detailed information on ...