Meredith Bouvier, PhD

Meredith Bouvier is an education researcher and founder of NET Lab Inc., a Public Benefit Corporation conducting independent, open-source research on educational technology. With a PhD in education policy and 14+ years in the education sector — including work with the World Bank, UNESCO, OECD, and UNICEF — her research focuses on what parents and teachers actually observe about classroom technology use: how it shapes student attention, behavior, and learning, and whose interests it ultimately serves.


Previously, Meredith worked as a Senior Education Consultant at the Global Partnership for Education and the World Bank, and held positions at UNESCO, OECD, and UNICEF, with a focus on education systems, teacher workforce policy, and EdTech across international contexts.


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Meredith holds a PhD in Lifelong Learning from Penn State, where she also served as co-investigator on a study analyzing distance learning infrastructure across 235 rural Pennsylvania school districts, using systematic NVivo qualitative analysis to examine digital platform adoption and internet access barriers. She holds mathematics degrees from Duke University and Columbia Teachers College, is a certified high school math teacher, and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali. Her methods include Python (pandas, matplotlib), NVivo, STATA, and mixed-methods approaches to education policy and technology systems.


NET Lab's research is freely available to parents, teachers, advocates, and policymakers navigating decisions about classroom technology. Current projects include a mixed-methods study documenting parent and teacher experiences with EdTech through surveys and focus groups, and an open archive of over 500 educator community reviews of widely-used EdTech platforms, preserved for public access on the Open Science Framework.

Outside of work, Meredith swims competitively, bikes across countries, and digs in the dirt with her two bilingual boys (French and English).