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 officials.

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 Moskowitz

Senior Vice President, Director of Education and Human Development

Jay Moskowitz, Senior Vice President and Director of the Education and Human Development (EHD) Program, is responsible for AIR’s domestic and comparative education and human development practice. He provides overall direction of EHD (320 staff members), strategic planning, supervision of unit managers, resource allocation, mentoring and quality assurance. In addition, he serves as staff director for Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development Network on Learning Outcomes, supported by the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics. Prior to becoming the Director of the Education and Human Development Program, Dr. Moskowitz directed AIR’s International Development Program.

He has advised the World Bank, OECD, the U.S. Department of Education (ED), USAID and individual countries on issues of monitoring and evaluating student outcomes, building performance monitoring systems to promote informed policy development and evaluation and strategic planning for integrating measurement into national and regional policies and programs. Additionally, he has directed numerous projects supported by the U.S. Department of Education, studies that examined special education expenditures, and developed alternative methodological approaches for indices of educational price, cost and fiscal capacity. He also has conducted seminal research on the distribution of educational resources among schools and grade levels within school districts. Jay received his Ph.D. from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.