Introducing the New Editorial Team

Li Feng is a professor of economics at Texas State University. She has served as a Visiting Scholar in the Center for Education Policy Analysis at Stanford University and a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Her research focuses on the economics of education, labor economics, and health economics, exploring topics such as teacher labor markets, school accountability, and collective bargaining agreements. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Education Sciences, and the American Educational Research Association. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Association for Education and Finance Policy. She received her PhD in Economics and Education Specialist in Education (EdS) from Florida State University. Cassandra Hart is a professor of education policy in the School of Education at the University of California, Davis. She evaluates the effects of school, state, and national education programs, policies, and practices on overall student achievement, and on the equity of student outcomes. Her recent work has focused on online education in both K–12 schools and community colleges, school choice programs, school accountability policies, and effects on students of exposure to demographically similar teachers. She holds her PhD in Human Development and Social Policy from Northwestern University.