Margaret Ray Author

Margaret Ray is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Economic Education at the University of Mary Washington, where she specializes in teaching introductory economics. She received her BS in Economics from Oklahoma State University and her PhD in Economics from the University of Tennessee. She has been involved in the AP® Economics program since 1992, serving as a reader and question leader, writing test items, overseeing the AP course audit, writing College Board “Special Focus” articles, and editing the Council on Economic Education’s AP Macroeconomics resource. She has been a College Board® Endorsed Consultant for economics since 2001, and she conducts several professional development workshops and institutes each year.
David Anderson is the Paul G. Blazer Professor of Economics at Centre College. He received his BA in economics from the University of Michigan and his MA and PhD in economics from Duke University. Anderson has been involved in the AP® Economics programs for more than two decades. For five years he led the grading of one or both of the AP Economics exams, and he speaks regularly at AP conferences and workshops. He has authored dozens of scholarly articles and 15 books. His research is primarily on economic education, environmental economics, law and economics, and labor economics.