Provides research, evaluation, consulting, and technical assistance services that contribute to the lifelong process of learning and improving personal performance.

Produces and disseminates information to provide motivation and tools to enable individuals to make informed decisions about health issues.

Develops and implements education testing programs that benefit students, parents and public officals.

Works with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the government's primary source for collecting and analyzing data about public education.

Helps to provide all children with access to a quality education, and empowers people, organizations, and communities to bring about social change.

Is committed to helping clients improve the effectiveness of their workforce through a wide range of management, organizational, and business improvement efforts.

Produces, maintains and disseminates systematic reviews of the effects of social and behavioral interventions.

Program Director - Laura Salganik

AIR’s Federal Statistics Program, formerly known as the Education Statistics Services Institute (ESSI), works with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), which is the federal government’s primary source for collecting and analyzing statistical data about public education in the United States and around the world.

The information provided by our experts contributes to the development of high-quality statistics about education that inform discussion and debate at the decision-making levels of national, state and local governments.

NCES, part of the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences, fulfills a congressional mandate to collect, analyze, and report statistics and information showing the condition and progress of education in the United States and other nations in order to promote and accelerate the improvement of American education.

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