A new book by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and Public Agenda addresses the challenges of teacher evaluation reform by offering school leaders field-tested strategies for collaborating with teachers. Everyone at the Table adds to a body of research suggesting that teacher engagement reduces the likelihood of opposition, ...
Dr. Kristin Carman, a senior health researcher at AIR, has been appointed by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to serve on its Advisory Panel on Patient Engagement. PCORI is an independent organization authorized by Congress to provide research that can inform health consumers and engaging ...
A comprehensive training toolkit on bullying prevention and intervention designed by AIR for the U.S. Department of Education is now available online at no cost. Published in two parts, "Understanding and Intervening Bullying Behavior" and "Creating a Supportive Classroom Climate," this toolkit helps educators identify, address, and prevent bullying behavior ...
On September 10, 2012, at the annual D.C. Adult Education Conference, AIR is premiering a short film on adult learners' experiences and aspirations. In "The Adult Learner Story," students share their struggles and triumphs. A panel discussion and the premiere for "The Adult Learner Story" will be held from 12:45 ...
A team of experts from AIR played a major role in writing and producing The Condition of Education 2013, the annual statistical report on U.S. education released by the National Center for Education Statistics. The congressionally mandated annual report summarizes important developments and trends in U.S. education using the ...
The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Healthy Students, in collaboration with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, have selected AIR to operate the National Center on Safe, Supportive Learning Environments. This new center will ensure that state education agencies, local education agencies, schools, and colleges ...
A new report from the Delta Cost Project at AIR—Academic Spending Versus Athletic Spending: Who Wins?—also shows that athletic costs increased at least twice as fast as academic spending, on a per-capita basis, across each of the three Division I subdivisions between 2005 and 2010.
AIR and The National Center on Family Homelessness announced that effective today their not-for-profit organizations have joined together to better assist those serving the needs of the nation’s homeless children and families.
Students who attend an Early College high school are significantly more likely to enroll in college and earn a degree than their peers, according to the results of a rigorous, multi-year study of ten schools that were part of the Early College High School Initiative created ...
Experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will discuss a variety of topics, including research and low performing schools, at the Society for Research on Education Effectiveness' (SREE) Fall Conference September 6-8, 2012, in Washington, D.C. This year's conference theme is Effective Partnerships: Linking Practice and Research. ...
