Anna J. Egalite, Ph.D.
Professor and University Faculty Scholar, ELPHD; Faculty Scholar, Belk Center
Anna_Egalite@ncsu.eduBio
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 , Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (2025)
- Competitive Effects of the Expansion of Means-Tested Private School Vouchers in North Carolina , Journal of School Choice (2025)
- Effects of the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program on Public School Students’ Achievement and Graduation Rates , AERA Open (2025)
- Representation for Exceptional Children: Student–Teacher Ethnoracial Matching for Students With Disabilities , Exceptional Children (2025)
- The Role of Teacher–Student Ethnoracial Matching in Student Identification for Special Education Services , Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (2025)
- 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)