Adam K. Edgerton serves as a Washington, DC-based Senior Researcher for the Learning Policy Institute, where he works on projects related to restarting and reinventing schools, tutoring, and principal induction. Edgerton was previously a mixed-methods researcher at The Center of Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning (C-SAIL), which was housed at the University of Pennsylvania and funded by the Institute of Education Sciences. His work has been published in leading academic journals, such as the American Educational Research Journal and Educational Researcher, as well as media outlets such as The Huffington Post and Education Week. He won a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for his work on collective bargaining in Pennsylvania. Prior to becoming a researcher, Edgerton taught high school English, served as an Upward Bound program director, and coordinated curricula as a Vice President of Academics for private high schools in mainland China.
Edgerton received a Ph.D. in Education Policy from the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a B.A. in English and Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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