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Biography
Susanna Loeb is a Professor at the Graduate School of Education. She was Director of the Annenberg Institute at Brown University, where she was also Professor of Education and of International and Public Affairs and the founder and executive director of the National Student Support Accelerator, which aims to expand access to relationship-based, high-impact tutoring in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Susanna’s research focuses broadly on education policy and its role in improving educational opportunities for students. Her work has addressed issues of educator career choices and professional development, of school finance and governance, and of early childhood systems. Before moving to Brown, Susanna was the Barnett Family Professor of Education at Stanford. She was the founding director of the Center for Education Policy at Stanford and co-director of Policy Analysis for California Education. Susanna led the research for both Getting Down to Facts projects for California schools. In 2020, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is also an affiliate at NBER and JPAL and a member of the National Academy of Education.
Other titles
Professor, Graduate School of Education
Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Program affiliations
SHIPS (PhD)
SHIPS (PhD): Administration and Policy Analysis
SHIPS (PhD): Economics of Education
SHIPS (PhD): Educational Policy
(MA) POLS
(MA) MA/MBA
Research interests
Achievement | Alternative Schooling | Data Sciences | Diversity and Identity | Early Childhood | Educational Policy | Equity in Education | Immigrants and Immigration | Leadership and Organization | Literacy and Language | Parents and Family Issues | Poverty and Inequality | Professional Development | School Reform | Standards | Teachers and Teaching
Recent publications
Chamberlain, L. J., Bruce, J., De La Cruz, M., Huffman, L., Steinberg, J. R., Bruguera, R., … Loeb, S. (2021). A Text-Based Intervention to Promote Literacy: An RCT. Pediatrics.
York, B. N., Loeb, S., & Doss, C. (2019). One Step at a Time The Effects of an Early Literacy Text-Messaging Program for Parents of Preschoolers. JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCES, 54(3), 537–566.
Bettinger, E. P., Fox, L., Loeb, S., & Taylor, E. S. (2017). Virtual Classrooms: How Online College Courses Affect Student Success. AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, 107(9), 2855–2875.