Eunice Greer Eunice Ann Greer, PhD, is a Principal Research Analyst at the American Institutes for Research in Washington, DC. Currently, her work is focused on the Ohio State assessment design and on the development, alignment and implementation of standards-based systems of instruction and assessment. Eunice has successfully straddled the line of policy and implementation as: Associate superintendent for the Illinois State Board of Education where she directed the Illinois Reads-Statewide Reading Initiative; Division Administrator for Standards and Assessment for the Illinois State Board of Education. Eunice was instrumental in Illinois' successful application for a $37 million dollar Reading Excellence Act Grant from the Department of Education. Under her leadership, Illinois was the first state to receive the Five Star Award for Exemplary Statewide Reading Initiatives from the International Reading Association. Eunice has also worked as an Assistant Professor in the department of curriculum and instruction of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as the Director of Research for an urban middle school reform project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and as a literacy assessment coordinator for the University of Illinois' Center for the Study of Reading.