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U. Files Brief Supporting Harvard’s Race-Conscious Admission Policy

19 Aug 2018

The Brown Daily Herald
Yan Wang

Yan Wang is a principal researcher at AIR. She is currently the project director for the ED School Climate Surveys, sponsored by NCES and leads AIR’s support for NAEP survey questionnaires and the IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study. In 2017, ED will create school climate benchmark scores. These ...
What’s Next? Fisher II, UT Austin, and Affirmative Action

23 Jun 2016

The Supreme Court recently held that UT Austin’s race-conscious admissions plan is lawful under the Equal Protection Clause. In this blog post, Ben Backes discusses what this does (and does not) mean.
Chronic Absence: Busting Myths and Helping Educators Develop More Effective Responses

06 Sep 2019

The simple act of not attending school consistently increases the likelihood that children will be unable to read well by grade 3, fail classes in middle school, and drop out of high school. Standing in the way of truly addressing chronic absence are three harmful myths.
Reforms to Increase Transparency in Higher Education

24 May 2017

Read Mark Schneider's testimony to the House Subcommittee on Higher Education at a hearing to examine transparency and accountability in higher education, as well as protecting student privacy.