Milagros Nores, Ph.D., Co-Director for Research at NIEER, oversees research operations at NIEER, while pursuing her own research as well. Her expertise and interests are in early childhood development, data-driven policy development, evaluation design, economics, cultural diversity, and English language learning. Dr. Nores currently runs an early childhood study in Colombia, a study on parental-child educational practices for minority children in the U.S. and evaluations of West Virginia’s  and Seattle’s preschool programs. Her background is in early childhood attainment, the economics of education, poverty, and international and comparative education. She has a Ph.D. in Education and Economics from Columbia University and an Ed.M. in Educational Administration and Social Policy from Harvard University. Dr. Nores previously worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Taubman Center in Public Policy, Brown University, where she taught Education Policy in a Comparative Perspective, and Economics of Public Policy. Dr. Nores also consults for various organizations in education projects in Latin America and Asia.