Carol Jay Stratoudakis, Ph.D., known as Dr. Jay, has four decades of experience in educational assessment at the national, state, and post-secondary, as well as in several school districts where she analyzed student performance on standardized tests. She conducted her dissertation research through the Institute for Research on Teaching at Michigan State University where she was recognized as an expert reading clinician in detecting error patterns in student performance on diagnostic tests. Dr. Jay served as a national policy analyst at the National Institute of Education (NIE) and later as a staff consultant to the National Education Goals Panel (NEGP), a joint taskforce between the White House and the National Governors' Association which developed the first national standards in K-12 Education, the framework for the Common Core Standards. Dr. Jay also worked with the Connecticut State Department of Education on the development of standards to assess teachers and worked at the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Education on the development of standards to assess school administrators.