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.

Jay G. Chambers, Ph.D.

Senior Research Fellow / Managing Director

Jay G. Chambers is a Senior Research Fellow and is the Managing Director of the Education Finance Business Development group in the Education Program at AIR. Dr. Chambers holds an appointment as a consulting professor in the Stanford University School of Education and served as the President of the American Education Finance Association in 2002/2003. During 2002, he was appointed by President Bush to serve on the President’s Commission on Excellence in Special Education to help formulate recommendations for reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

Dr. Chambers was co-director of the Center for Special Education Finance and was the director of the national Special Education Expenditure Project (SEEP). In the past decade, he has directed two major studies of resource allocation for the Planning Evaluation Service in the U.S. Department of Education and is currently principal investigator on the Targeting and Resource Allocation Component of the National longitudinal Study of No Child Left Behind. Dr. Chambers recently directed a team of researchers to conduct the New York Adequacy Study, which focused on determining the cost of a sound basic education as a foundation for developing a new school funding approach in New York State.

Dr. Chambers is a nationally recognized expert in school finance and education cost analysis. Over the past 30 years, he has directed and been involved in many national-, state-, and local studies related to programmatic and resource costs in education, and has written and conducted projects working directly with local school districts, state departments of education, and the National Center for Education Statistics to improve the quality of fiscal and cost information for school decision making.

Dr. Chambers earned his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University, specializing in economics of education, labor economics, urban economics, and applied microeconomics.