Peggy G. Carr
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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.[1]
Carr is African American. She was born in the 1950s in 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.[2]
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) in Developmental Psychology from Howard University, also historically black.[3]