Margaret E. Goertz is a professor of education policy in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and a Co-Director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, where she specializes in the study of state and federal education finance and governance policy. She has conducted extensive research on state education reform policies, state education finance formulas, teacher testing policies, and state and federal programs for special needs students. Goertz is a past president of the American Education Finance Association and has been an expert witness in the long-running school finance case in New Jersey, Abbott v. Burke. She was a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Understanding the Influence of Standards in Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, and also served on the Advisory Council on Education Statistics of the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to joining the University of Pennsylvania faculty, Goertz taught at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University and was a senior research scientist and Executive Director of the Education Policy Research Division of Educational Testing Service. She has also taught at Princeton University and the College of New Jersey. Goertz has a Ph.D. in social science from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University.