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Julie Reed Kochanek is a vice president at AIR, director of the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Midwest, and director of the AIR's local, regional, state, and national education systems practice area. Dr. Kochanek has more than 15 years of experience in research and evaluation of school reform efforts, with a ...

Robyn Madison-Harris is a senior technical assistance consultant at AIR, where she works with the Texas and Southeast Comprehensive Centers. Dr. Madison-Harris is also liaison and partnership facilitator lead for the Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest Teacher Preparation and Professional Development Partnership, co-liaison to the Center on Standards and Assessment Implementation, ...

Jizhi Zhang is an educational psychologist, and a principal research scientist at AIR. Dr. Zhang is currently working on a National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) research study on achievement gaps and previously she led a content research study to compare the 2011 Grade 8 NAEP and the Trends in ...

Susan Lapham is a vice president at AIR, contributing her expertise in program and talent management and quality assurance. Lapham also co-directs Project Talent, a nationally representative longitudinal study of 400,000 Americans who were first surveyed in 1960.  She serves as principle investigator on several grants from the National Institute ...

Lawrence B. Friedman is a vice president at AIR. He contributes to the leadership and strategic direction of AIR's education work, and of the organization, as well as the growth of its evaluation and research capacity. He also leads the program’s System Supports portfolio, directs the AIR State and Local ...