Provides services and technical assistance for students so they benefit from research-based curricula taught in safe environments.

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.

Rebecca Herman, Ph.D.

Principal Research Scientist

Rebecca Herman, Ph.D., a Principal Research Scientist at AIR in Washington, DC, specializes in evaluating, designing, and conducting research on educational improvement, setting standards for the quality of educational research, and reviewing research based on those standards. As the project director for the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC), she is responsible for the U.S. Department of Education’s flagship project to set standards for educational research and use those standards to identify effective educational programs, practices, and approaches.

Dr. Herman was also project director of the Educators’ Guide to Schoolwide Reform, which provided a critical look at the research and implementation of the most prominent and promising comprehensive school reform efforts in this country and developed standards for the quality of research on comprehensive school reform.

Dr. Herman also conducts original research on comprehensive school reform and other strategies for improving K–12 education. She is Principal Investigator of the National Longitudinal Evaluation of Comprehensive School Reform (NLECSR) , a large-scale quantitative and qualitative study of the effects of national school improvement efforts and the single largest Federal investment in studying whole-school reform efforts and their impact on student achievement. Dr. Herman holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Johns Hopkins University.