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.

Jenifer J. Harr, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist

Jenifer J. Harr, Ph.D., received her doctorate in education with an emphasis in special education from University of Cambridge. A Research Scientist at AIR for two and half years, Dr. Harr is the Associate Director of the Center for Special Education Finance/Special Education Expenditure Project (CSEF/SEEP), as well as co-editor for the Special Education Expenditure Project Report Series. She currently serves as Project Director for the Study to Measure the Delivery of Services in Accordance with the Individual Education Programs of Students with Disabilities in the Los Angeles Unified School District, a court-mandated study to measure the delivery of special education services. Dr. Harr also served as Project Director for the Study of the Incidence Adjustment in the Special Education Funding Model for the California Department of Education. The study determined variability in the incidence of students with disabilities across the state who are significantly above average in cost and/or “severity,” and determined what, if any, changes need to be made to the severity adjustments in California’s special education funding formula.