IES - Key Persons


Abrams, Andrew


Alex Nock

Job Titles:
  • Director of the Commission on No Child Left Behind / the Aspen Institute

Ali, Melanie


Allen-Platt, Claire


Amber Winkler

Job Titles:
  • Research Director, Thomas B. Fordham Institute / Opening

Andrew White

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Director for Science

Angelo, Lauren


Archer, Casey


Arden Bement

Job Titles:
  • Director, NSF

Bachman, Meredith


Barbara Foorman

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Education and Director of the Regional Educational Lab - Southeast

Barbara Means

Job Titles:
  • Design - Based Implementation Research

Beth Ann Bryan

Job Titles:
  • NBES Member

Boccanfuso, Chris


Braga, Leticia


Bridget T. Long

Job Titles:
  • Investigator, Professor of Education and Economics Harvard University, Graduate School of Education
  • NBES Chair

Carl Wieman

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director for Science at the White House Office of Science

Carol Lee

Job Titles:
  • Director

Constance Steinkuehler - President

Job Titles:
  • President
  • Senior Policy Analyst

Craig T. Ramey - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • NBES Chair

David Chard

Job Titles:
  • NBES Chair

Diane Massell

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate, School of Education, University of Michigan on How SEAs Use Evidence in Decision - Making

Douglas Staiger

Job Titles:
  • Recent Research on Instructional Quality

Dr. Anne Ricciuti

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Director for Science

Dr. Matthew Soldner

Job Titles:
  • Commissioner of NCEE
Dr. Matthew Soldner has served as Commissioner of NCEE since 2018. In that role, Dr. Soldner also serves as the Department of Education's Chief Evaluation Officer. Dr. Soldner's expertise includes the design and implementation of complex, mixed-methods evaluations; innovative practices designed to improve student outcomes after high-school; postsecondary competency-based education; federal financial aid; and federal statistical policy and practice. His Ph.D. is from the University of Maryland's College of Education.

Duane Alexander

Job Titles:
  • Director

Eisner, Liz


Emily Anthony

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist and PTAC Program Officer, NCES

Eric Hanushek

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director
  • NBES Chair

Fong, Michael


Gabriela Uro

Job Titles:
  • Manager ELL Policy and Research, Council of Great City Schools

Gansen, Heidi


Garcia, Daphne


Grover J. Whitehurst

Job Titles:
  • Director

Helen Ladd

Job Titles:
  • Thompson Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics, Duke University

Howard Bloom

Job Titles:
  • Chief Social Scientist, MDRC

Jack Buckley

Job Titles:
  • Commissioner, National Center for Education Statistics

Jacobson, Jonathan


Jeff Kling

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow and Deputy
Jeff Kling, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution and WWC expert panel member; Mark Dynarski, Vice President and Director, Center for Improving Research Evidence, and Director, WWC, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.; and Jill Constantine, Associate Director of Research, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., and Deputy Director, WWC

Jeffrey Valentine

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator, What Works Clearinghouse

Jerry Lee

Job Titles:
  • NBES Member

Jill Constantine

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Research and Education Area Leader, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
  • Deputy Director, What Works Clearinghouse Associate Director of Research and Education Area Leader, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc

Joe Torgesen

Job Titles:
  • NBES Member

John Hutchins

Job Titles:
  • Communications Director, MDRC, on MDRC 's Approach to Communicating Research Findings to Multiple Audiences
John Hutchins, Communications Director, MDRC, on MDRC's approach to communicating research findings to multiple audiences

John Q. Easton

Job Titles:
  • Director

John Winn

Job Titles:
  • Commissioner, Florida Board of Education

Johnson, Amy


Johnson, Erica


Jon Baron

Job Titles:
  • NBES Chair

Karen Dahlheim

Job Titles:
  • Ethics Division, Office of the General Counsel

Lynn Okagaki

Job Titles:
  • Commissioner of the National Center for Education Research ( NCER )

Marcia Sprague

Job Titles:
  • Ethics Division, Office of the General Counsel

Margaret Honey

Job Titles:
  • President and CEO, New York Hall of Science

Marilyn Seastrom

Job Titles:
  • Chief Statistician and Program Director, National Center for Education Statistics ( NCES )

Mark Schneider

Job Titles:
  • Commissioner / National Center for Education Statistics

Mason, Eric


Michael Casserly

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director / Council of the Great City Schools

Mike S. Garet

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator, Vice - President at American Institutes for Research

Nagel, Jesse


Naomi Goldstein

Job Titles:
  • Director, Office of Policy Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services

Nolan, Elizabeth


Norma Garza

Job Titles:
  • NBES Executive Director

Paul Carttar

Job Titles:
  • Director, Social Innovation Fund, Corporation for National and Community Service

Peggy Carr

Job Titles:
  • Acting Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics ( NCES ) Discussion

Phil Gleason

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow, Project Director for the Evaluation of the Impacts of Charter School Strategies, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Pollard, Erin


Rebecca Maynard

Job Titles:
  • Commissioner of the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance ( NCEE )
  • Communicating Research Effectively to Diverse Audiences

Robert Gordon

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor to Secretary Duncan

Robert Granger - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • NBES Chair

Ruth Neild

Job Titles:
  • Associate Commissioner, NCEE on the New Regional Educational Laboratory Contracts and Their Implications for Dissemination
  • Commissioner of the National Center
  • Commissioner of the National Center for Education Evaluation ( NCEE ) Remarks
  • Commissioner of the National Center for Education Evaluation / Roundtable
  • Deputy Director for Policy and Research, Delegated Duties

Sanders, Felicia


Sands, Janelle


Scott Cody

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Director of the What Works Clearinghouse, Associate Director of Research Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
  • Deputy Director, What Works Clearinghouse Associate Director of Research, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Silverberg, Marsha


Soldner, Matthew


Sonia Chessen

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director

Steve Fleischman

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Executive Officer, Education Northwest

Steve Glazerman

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Sue Betka

Job Titles:
  • Acting IES Director
  • Deputy Director for Administration and Policy

Susanna Loeb

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chair of NBES

Tate, Karen


Thomas J. Kane

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Director for Research and Data, College Ready Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Tom Brock

Job Titles:
  • Commissioner of NCER / Panel
  • Commissioner of the National Center for Education Research / Panel
  • Commissioner of the National Center for Education Research / Roundtable

Tony Miller

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Education

Valerie Woodruff

Job Titles:
  • Secretary of Education, Delaware

Wei, Thomas


Wilde, Elizabeth Ty


Wolf, Betsy