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 officials.

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.

Here are a few of the difficult and important questions on which we work with clients:

• What is the percentage of students who attend public schools of choice and private schools?  Are the parents of these students more satisfied and involved than the parents of public school students?
• How frequently do serious crimes occur in schools?  What is the perception of disciplinary problems such as bullying?  What kinds of disciplinary actions are taken by schools?
• What cognitive and noncognitive skills do students have when they first enter kindergarten?  How are these different at the end of the kindergarten year?
• To what extent do children attend classes before kindergarten?  What types of services do these children receive?  What are the qualifications of the teachers of these classes?
• How many schools and school districts are there in the United States? How are the schools divided into grade levels?  How many students and teachers do the schools have?  How much revenue do the districts receive?
• What factors contribute to student success in postsecondary education?
• What is the percentage of schools connected to the Internet? How has this changed in recent years? What kind of training related to the Internet do teachers receive?
• How do U.S. 15-year olds score in reading literacy, math literacy, and science literacy compared to 15-year olds from other countries?  Is the relationship between literacy and parents’ education the same in different countries?
• How does the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) work?  Who participates?  How are the scores interpreted?