Emily Hodge

Emily Hodge (Col ’05, Educ ’06, Grad ’07) earned a doctorate from the department of education policy studies in the Pennsylvania State University College of Education on May 15, 2015. Her dissertation is titled “Rigor for All? The Enduring Tension Between Standardization and Differentiation in the Era of the Common Core State Standards.” Ms. Hodge is an assistant professor of educational leadership at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey.

Emily Hodge (Col ’06, Educ ’06, Grad ’07) married Alan Pehrson on March 26, 2010. The couple recently moved from Pittsburgh to Ramsey, N.J. Mr. Pehrson is completing his second postdoctoral fellowship at a pharmaceutical company in Ramsey. Ms. Hodge is pursuing a doctorate in education theory and policy at Penn State University after teaching language arts at the middle school level for three years in Pittsburgh.