Anna J. Egalite, Ph.D.
Professor and University Faculty Scholar
Bio
Anna J. Egalite, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development at North Carolina State University and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University in 2014 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 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.
Publications
- Both/and: Students’ academic benefits of sharing race/ethnicity and language with their teachers , Association for Education Finance and Policy 49th Annual Conference (2024)
- Factors driving school choice in North Carolina during the COVID-19 pandemic , International School Choice and Reform Conference (2024)
- Competitive pressure: How private school choice influenced North Carolina’s public-school environment , (2023)
- Representation for exceptional children: Ethnoracial matching effects for students of color with disabilities , Annual meeting of the International School Choice and Reform Conference (2023)
- The role of teacher-student ethnoracial matching in student identification for special education services , Association for Education Finance and Policy 48th Annual Conference (2023)
- What We Know About Teacher Race and Student Outcomes , Education Next (2023)
- Causal Estimates of the Effect of Teacher- Student Race and Ethnicity Matching on Student Achievement in Six U.S. School Districts , Association for Education Finance and Policy 47th Annual Conference (2022)
- Educational Pluralism, Education Preferences, and the Origin Story of an American Movement: Congratulations to the Winners of the 2022 Patrick Wolf ISCRC Best Paper Prize , Journal of School Choice (2022)
- Effective school principals: Taking stock of two decades of research , The Register (2022)
- Representation for exceptional children: Ethnoracial matching effects for students of color with disabilities , Annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (2022)