Danielle Edwards, PhD is an assistant professor of Educational Leadership and Workforce Development at Old Dominion University. In her research, she聽pairs a variety of quantitative methods, including experimental and quasi-experimental methods, with longitudinal student, teacher, and geographic data聽to evaluate policies aimed at聽alleviating geographic inequities in access to effective schools and teachers. To date,聽Edwards' work has primarily examined three areas of K-12 education policy: teacher labor markets, school transportation, and public school choice. Her current projects include evaluations of 鈥淕row Your Own鈥 teacher programs in Texas and Nashville鈥檚 districtwide high-impact tutoring program.
Edwards' research has been published in top-tier research journals such as聽Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis聽补苍诲听Education Finance and Policy, has been funded by the W.T. Grant Foundation and the Smith Richardson Foundation, and has received national attention in media outlets such as聽National Public Radio聽补苍诲听EdWeek. Her work also has directly informed local policy decisions concerning transportation initiatives, student retention policies, and tutoring programs in Michigan and Tennessee.聽Edwards is a recipient of the Association for Education Finance and Policy New Scholar Award.聽
Prior to arriving at ODU, Edwards was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Annenberg Institute at Brown University. She received her Ph.D. in Education Policy with a specialization in Economics of Education from Michigan State University. Before attending graduate school, Edwards taught Algebra II and Pre-Calculus at a high school in New Orleans.聽She received a B.S. in economics and a B.A. in history with a mathematics minor from Stetson University.