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.

Laura Salganik, Ph.D.

Vice President, AIR and
Director, Federal Statistics Program

Laura Salganik, Ph.D., is a Vice President at AIR and Director of the Federal Statistics Program. In this role, she serves to oversee the conceptualization, development, and communication of information for advancing knowledge about the state of education through research design and development, statistics, psychometric measurement, assessment design, and education research. Her areas of specialization include competencies, international comparisons of education, indicators, national and international statistics, sociology of education, and she has published extensively in these areas. Dr. Salganik received her Ph.D. in Sociology from The Johns Hopkins University, her C.A.S. in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and her M.Ed. in Elementary Education from Rhode Island College.