Peggy G. Carr
Peggy G. Carr is an American expert on the developmental psychology and statistics of educational assessment. She is the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics.
Early life and education
[edit]Carr is African American. She was born in the 1950s Cleveland, Ohio, where her parents had relocated from North Carolina as part of the Second Great Migration, but soon after she began her schooling the family returned to eastern North Carolina, where she attended racially integrated schools even before the full national implementation of desegregation triggered by the Brown v. Board of Education decision.[1]
Following this, she majored in psychology at North Carolina Central University, a historically black university, graduating in 1976 with a concentration in statistics. She continued her education with a master's degree (1978) and Ph.D. (1982) from Howard University, also historically black.[2]
Career and later life
[edit]Carr became a researcher in the Statistical and Research Computer Laboratory at Howard University, and taught statistics as an adjunct faculty member there for over 15 years. She joined the United States Department of Education as chief statistician for the Office for Civil Rights, and moved to the National Center for Education Statistics in 1993.[2] She served there as associate commissioner for assessment, for more than 20 years, before in 2021 being appointed by president Joe Biden to a six-year term as commissioner of the center.[3][4] In doing so, she became "the first person of color in an executive management position at the National Center for Education Statistics, and among the first persons of color to be accepted as part of the Federal Senior Executive Service at the US Department of Education".[1]
Recognition
[edit]Carr is a recipient of the 2008 Presidential Meritorious Executive Rank Award, and the 2016 Golden Apple Award for exceptional service of the Secretary of Education.[3][4] She was the 2022 recipient of the Distinguished Public Service Award of the American Educational Research Association.[1][5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Peggy Carr", A Statistician's Life, AmStat News, American Statistical Association, 1 February 2023, retrieved 2025-02-21
- ^ a b "Peggy G. Carr, Ph.D.", 25th Anniversary Speakers, National Assessment Governing Board, February 2014, retrieved 2025-02-21
- ^ a b Bell, Kia C. (13 September 2021), President Biden Appoints Alumna Peggy G. Carr as Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, retrieved 2025-02-21
- ^ a b "Peggy G. Carr", IES staff, National Center for Education Statistics, retrieved 2025-02-21
- ^ AERA Announces 2022 Award Winners in Education Research, American Educational Research Association, 8 April 2022, retrieved 2025-02-21
- Living people
- American developmental psychologists
- American women psychologists
- American statisticians
- American women statisticians
- 20th-century African-American scientists
- 21st-century African-American scientists
- African-American women scientists
- North Carolina Central University alumni
- Howard University alumni
- Howard University faculty
- United States Department of Education officials