Dr. Tony Fong

Tony Fong is a Director of Data Analytics at WestEd. Dr. Fong manages various types of large-scale research and evaluation studies. He is currently the principal investigator for a five-year evaluation of an Education, Innovation, and Research Expansion grant that is evaluating the effectiveness of a 9th and 10th grade English curriculum. He is also the principal investigator for a five-year evaluation of a grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of English Language Acquisition to evaluate a curriculum designed to better meet the needs of English Learner students. Dr. Fong also oversees a team of quantitative researchers with extensive experience in all of the following: working closely with schools/districts/states to extract student-level data, setting up data security plans, setting up and executing data sharing agreements, securely transferring confidential student-level data, securely storing data as specified in the agreements with districts/states, cleaning and analyzing data, producing data visualizations and dashboards for clients, and working with stakeholders to understand and act on the analyzed data.

Dr. Fong received his BA in business/economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MS in applied statistics and a PhD in the economics of education from Columbia University, Teachers College.