Dr. Mark Schneider Vice President, American Institutes for Research
Previous to
joining AIR, Dr. Schneider served as the U.S. Commissioner of Education
Statistics (2005-2008). He is also a visiting scholar at the American
Enterprise Institute and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science
at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is the author of numerous
article and books on education policy. His most recent book, Getting to Graduation, edited with
Andrew Kelly, was published in 2012 by Johns Hopkins University Press. His
book, entitled Higher Education Accountability,
edited with Kevin Carey, was published by Palgrave in December of 2010. Charter Schools: Hope or Hype?, written
with Jack Buckley, was published by Princeton University Press in 2007.
Dr.
Schneider's 2000 book, Choosing Schools,
also published by Princeton University Press, won the Policy Study
Organization's Aaron Wildavsky Best Book Award. Schneider has been working on
increasing accountability by making data on college productivity more publicly
available. To that end, he is one of the creators of www.collegemeasures.org, where he
serves as President.
Dr.
Schneider received his PhD in political science from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1974.