This paper, the second in a two-part series, documents the financial trade-offs made by postsecondary institutions as they hire more part-time contingent faculty.

This paper, the first in a two-part series, profiles the contingent workforce across postsecondary institutional types.

This brief lays out a framework for costing-out a community college education based on extending methods used at the K-12 level.

This white paper distills discussions from an October 2019 convening, which brought together a range of stakeholders to share and document successful strategies for tracking longer term student outcomes, including postsecondary education, workforce, and civic outcomes.

In this brief, researchers used data from the Study of Deeper Learning: Opportunities and Outcomes to explore whether students’ opportunities for deeper learning are similarly beneficial for different types of students (e.g., male and female students, English language learners and native English speakers).

In this brief, researchers used data from the Study of Deeper Learning to examine whether students attending deeper learning network schools do indeed report more equitable learning opportunities than students in comparison schools.

This research brief discusses the impact COVID-19 has had on teacher preparation programs in Washington state.

In collaboration with Money Magazine, researchers from AIR analyzed and ranked U.S. bachelor’s-degree granting institutions based on their quality (e.g., six-year graduation rate; value-added graduation rate), affordability (e.g., net price; debt), and value (e.g., earnings; social mobility) to help families navigate the postsecondary decision-making process.

These Research Explainers provide brief summaries of existing research on the CBE landscape, program design and implementation, and perceptions of CBE. This series is intended to be useful for practitioners, program leaders, and researchers—both those already working in CBE and those interested in pursuing work in this area.

This report presents findings of a study that sought to (a) identify factors that predict positive STEM-related postsecondary outcomes for students in Texas and (b) determine whether the association between predictive factors and outcomes differs between Hispanic and non-Hispanic White students.