Peggy G. Carr

Peggy G. Carr is an American specialist on the developmental psychology and statistics of educational assessment. She was appointed commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics by President Biden in 2021 and served until February 24, 2025. Carr is the first NCES Commissioner to be forcibly removed from their six-year appointment. 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. Quotes I would say that what has happened is a professional tragedy, not just for me, but for all of NCES and my staff. But for me, it really was a personal tragedy because I have spent my career helping NCES build its solid reputation as a premier statistical agency in the federal system. said Carr after suddenly sacked Developing a “device agnostic” test would allow students to take it on different kinds of devices, like Chromebooks or school-issued laptops, and adaptive testing could allow for researchers to collect more detailed information about the capabilities of very high-performing and very low-performing students. Carr talked about plans to adapt NAEP in part in response to infrastructure issues illuminated by the pandemic External links