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.

Mary Ann Corley, Ph.D.

Principal Research Analyst

Mary Ann Corley, Ph.D., a Principal Research Analyst at AIR, directs the California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project, whose mission is to design and deliver professional development for California’s adult educators. From 1996-1999, Corley was Director of the National Adult Literacy and Learning Disabilities (ALLD) Center. In this role, she led the research, development, and training team of Bridges to Practice, a nationally funded and disseminated training module for literacy providers who teach adults with learning disabilities. She also served as founding director of the Lindy Boggs National Center for Community Literacy at Loyola University New Orleans.

Dr. Corley has 30 years experience in teaching and supervising adult literacy and workplace literacy programs, having served as Administrator of the GED Testing Program for the State of Maryland and as Adult Education Supervisor for Baltimore County Public Schools, where she assisted local businesses to establish workplace literacy programs for employees. In 1988, the Baltimore County Program that she directed was named “Outstanding Adult Education Program” by the U.S. Secretary of Education. Corley holds a Ph.D. in Adult and Continuing Education from the University of Maryland, a Master’s Degree in Applied Linguistics from Georgetown University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in French and Italian Language and Literature from Brandeis University.