Congratulations to Cory Koedel and Katherine Strunk, both recipients of American Education Research Association’s “Early Career” award—and both members of the Emerging Education Policy Scholars (EEPS)’s first cohort! Cory is assistant professor of economics at the University of Missouri, and Katherine is assistant professor of education and policy at the University of Southern California. The Emerging Education Policy Scholars (EEPS), a joint enterprise of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the American Enterprise Institute, is aimed at cultivating human capital within the education policy sector..