Nathan Scovronick, Ph.D., is currently the director of the Undergraduate Program at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He teaches courses on education policy and on public leadership. At Princeton, he has also served as the Acting Director of the Policy Research Institute for the Region and as Director of the Program in New Jersey Affairs. He previously served as executive director of the Treasury Department of the State of New Jersey and in several policy positions with the New Jersey Legislature. He is the author (with Jennifer L. Hochschild) of The American Dream and the Public Schools (Oxford University Press, 2003).