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.

George W. Bohrnstedt

Senior Vice President

George W. Bohrnstedt is Senior Vice President for Research at AIR where he is involved in the development of new programs of research for the organization and brings a deep interest in education policy issues.

Dr. Bohrnstedt currently chairs the National Center for Education Statistics’ NAEP Validity Studies Panel. He also serves as AIR’s senior advisor on AIR’s subcontract on the multi-organization team assembled by the Haan Foundation’s for the evaluation of four programs designed to help struggling readers in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Formerly, he was the Principal Investigator of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded evaluation of their initiative to create small, personalized high schools and the Co-Principal Investigator of the evaluation of California’s K-3 Class Size reduction program. Prior to that he was the Principal Investigator of the evaluation of the College Board’s Equity 2000 initiative. Dr. Bohrnstedt has served as co-editor of the American Sociological Association’s yearbook, Sociological Methodology and also has been editor and co-editor of Sociological Methods and Research and Social Psychology Quarterly.

He has been honored as a Belding Scholar at the Foundation for Child Development and has been a fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Bohrnstedt currently holds Consulting Professorships in the School of Education and the Department of Sociology at Stanford University. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin.