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.

Anthony P. (Tony) Cavanna, Ed.D.

School Reform Scientist

Dr. Anthony Cavanna is a School Reform Scientist at AIR. He directs work in reforming New Jersey's low-performing "Abbott" districts. Prior to joining AIR, he served as superintendent of schools in Fort Lee, NJ; Plainview-Old Bethpage, NY; Rahway, NJ; and New York City. As superintendent of schools in troubled urban and suburban school districts, Dr. Cavanna worked with school communities to reach new levels of student achievement, teacher professionalism, and community involvement. Hallmarks of Dr. Cavanna's work include significant gains in student achievement to reduce the achievement gap; awards for modeling efficient and effective budgeting; establishment of regional literacy (e.g., mathematics, science and technology) training centers for teachers; and effective business/educational partnerships targeting school reform in the areas of mathematics, science and technology.

As deputy superintendent in Community School District Two in New York City, Dr. Cavanna was part of a dynamic central office team which transformed a diverse, troubled inner-city district into a replicated model for school reform. Dr. Cavanna was also the founding principal of the Mott Hall School, a magnet school that attracted students from one of the most poorly achieving and overcrowded school districts in New York City. The school provided an academic environment to foster students' success.

Dr. Cavanna is a member of numerous professional associations for educators in New York and New Jersey, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), and the American Association of School Administrators (AASA). He serves as a book and article reviewer for the Teachers College Record at Columbia University's Teachers College.

Dr. Cavanna began his teaching career in the South Bronx. He holds an Ed.D. and a Professional Diploma in Urban Education, Leadership and Policy from Fordham University. He received an M.S. in Educational Technology and B.A. in Mathematics and Education from City University of New York.