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.

Nancy Safer, Ed.D.

Managing Research Scientist

Nancy Safer, Ed.D., Managing Research Scientist, has over 30 years of experience in special education with expertise in program development and policy research and analysis related to services for children and youth with disabilities. At AIR, she serves as the Co-Project Director of the National Center on Student Progress Monitoring, a national technical assistance and dissemination center dedicated to the implementation of scientifically-based student progress monitoring, as well as the K-8 Access Center, a national technical assistance center to improve educational outcomes for elementary and middle school students with disabilities.

Dr. Safer is the former executive director of the Council for Exceptional Children where she provided, for almost 10 years, strategic and operational leadership in the management and coordination of the organization of more than 50,000 special educators, related professionals, and families. Dr. Safer is also the former director of the Division of Educational Services at the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs in which she was responsible for the Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities Program and the Preschool Formula Grants Program, and eight discretionary grants programs. She is widely published including directing three annual reports to Congress on the implementation of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act and many other publications related to early childhood, special education, inclusion and other topics. Dr. Safer received her M.Ed. and Ed.D. in Special Education from Temple University.