Anna J. Egalite

About

Anna J. Egalite is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development at North Carolina State University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University and in fall 2017 served as a visiting assistant professor of public policy at Duke University.

Her research focuses on the evaluation of education policies and programs intended to close racial and economic achievement gaps. Her studies have examined school choice and competition, the influence of family background on intergenerational economic mobility, and the diversification of the educator labor force. Her research has won numerous awards, including those from the American Educational Research Association and the University of Notre Dame. She serves on the editorial boards of the journals Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis and Education Next. She is chair of the International School Choice and Reform Conference.

She has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator on grants totaling over six million dollars. Egalite’s scholarly articles have appeared in the journals Economics of Education Review, Education Finance and Policy, World Development, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. Her research has been featured in a number of mainstream media outlets, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Politico, and The Atlantic.