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.

Jamie Shkolnik

Senior Research Scientist

Jamie Shkolnik, Senior Research Scientist, received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at San Diego, where she researched school resource allocation and its effects on education. She has written papers on the effects of class size and ability grouping on student achievement. Dr. Shkolnik is a Senior Research Scientist in the Education group at AIR. Her areas of specialization are education finance, econometrics, cost analysis, and school resource allocation. Dr. Shkolnik recently contributed to the Special Education Expenditure Project (SEEP), where her primary responsibilities included database development -- combining questionnaire data, district-level budget data, and personnel data; statistical analyses of expenditures on special education programs; and technical report writing. She also served as the deputy project director on the evaluation of California’s Class Size Reduction, where she supervised the analyses and writing of reports and performed a study of the effects of teacher characteristics on student achievement in smaller classes using data collected from six large California districts.