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.

Deborah (Montgomery) Parrish

Vice President

Deborah (Montgomery) Parrish is a Vice President at AIR in Palo Alto, with over 20 years of combined research, evaluation, and teaching experience for national, state, and local governments. Areas of expertise include early childhood education, parent education, child care and development, early intervention, staff/family partnerships, program quality improvement and education finance and policy.

Over the years, Ms. Parrish has worked with a diverse group of state and federal policymakers, researchers, community agencies, teachers, and parents to apply research and evaluation findings to the implementation of effective practices in educational and prevention services settings. She is currently overseeing an evaluation of the Family Literacy Initiative Evaluation in Los Angeles County, where 15 grantees have been funded to become model programs offering adult education, parent education, early childhood education and parent and child interactive literacy activities.

Ms. Parrish recently directed the Early Care and Education Family Partnership Initiative for the California Department of Education, Child Development Division, to develop a master plan for staff/family partnerships in state-subsidized programs for children from birth to 14 years of age. Ms. Parrish holds a Master's degree from Stanford University School of Education in Administration and Policy Analysis, and a credential as a Parent Educator in California.