Susanna Loeb

Susanna Loeb is a Professor of Education at Stanford University and Director of National Student Support Accelerator, which aims to expand access to relationship-based, high-impact tutoring in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Before her recent move back to Stanford, Susanna was the Director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform and Professor of Education and of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. 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. Susanna was the founding director of the Center for Education Policy at Stanford and co-director of Policy Analysis for California Education. She led the research for both Getting Down to Facts projects for California schools. She is also an affiliate at NBER and JPAL and a member of the National Academy of Education and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.