Statistical and Policy Research

• Independent research consultant
• Analyzed data and designed quantitative research for Columbia Center for the Social Sciences and Penn and Schoen Associates
• Designed and wrote original statistical software for marketing research professionals
  
• Assisted Columbia University Teachers College and New York University graduate students in developing research designs and analyzing data for doctoral dissertations.
• Taught introductory courses in probability and statistics
• Tutored clients taking graduate level statistics courses

• Principal Investigator on major survey research project
• Original survey of the Council on Foreign Relations
• Breakthrough methodology in psychometrics
• Factor analysis, multiple regression analysis, and other statistical modeling
• Findings published in peer reviewed journal

• Research Skills
  
  • Survey and measurement design
  • Other academic, government and commercial studies
    
  • Parametric and non-parametric data analysis
    
  
  
• Computer Skills
• PSPP (statistical software)
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Word
• PagePlus (desktop publishing) 
  

• Learning from the Bloomberg legacy:
• Op-Ed on Mayor Bloomberg's school reforms, New York Daily News
• In-depth policy paper on the Bloomberg reforms and beyond, unpublished
• Beyond Incentives and Value-Added Assessment: How Total Quality Management Can Transform Public Education (work in progress)
  
• Published book chapters:
• School Reform
  
• Unleashing Minds and Brains
• Design for an Innovative Public High School, written on behalf of planning committee and addressing:
• Curriculum, instruction, and assessment
• Staff roles and time allocation
• Faculty-led guidance system for building community and student motivation
• Collaborative school governance
• Engagement with parents and Community-Based Organization.
• Re-designing Special Education Programs
• Testimony to the New York State Senate Education Committee on the "Mathematics A" Regents Exam

OTHER POLICY RESEARCH

• Writings on a Green New Deal
  

• How America Can Demilitarize and Prosper

• How to End Violence in America (drafted on behalf of the International Psychohistorical Association)