The 48-year-old group selects 12 new members based on their contributions to advancing research and policy in education.
Susanna Loeb, the
Barnett Family Professor of Education at Stanford University,
was elected earlier this month to membership in the National Academy of
Education on the basis of her outstanding scholarship in the economics of education and
the relationship between schools and federal, state and local policies.
Founded in 1965, the NAEd seeks
to advance education research and its use in policy formation and practice. The group has undertaken research studies that
address pressing issues in education and that typically include both NAEd
members and other scholars with an expertise in a particular area of inquiry.
In addition, members are involved in NAEd’s professional development fellowship
programs that focus on the preparation of the next generation of scholars.
Loeb is one of 12 scholars elected to the NAEd this year. Prior to
her election, Stanford had 19 of the 162 members in the group — the most of any
university.
Nominations are submitted by individual members once a year for
review and election by the entire membership. “The newly elected members are
preeminent leaders in their respective areas of educational research, and they
are recognized for the extraordinary influence that they have had on education
in the U.S. and abroad,” said Susan Fuhrman, NAEd president.
Loeb’s research
addresses teacher policy, looking specifically at how teachers' preferences
affect the distribution of teaching quality across schools, how pre-service
coursework requirements affect the quality of teacher candidates, and how
reforms affect teachers' career decisions. She also studies school leadership
and school finance, for example looking at how the structure of state finance
systems affects the level and distribution of resources across schools.
She is faculty director
of the Center for Education Policy Analysis, and a co-director of Policy
Analysis for California Education. Susanna is a senior fellow at the Stanford
Institute for Economic Policy Research and a faculty research fellow at the
National Bureau of Economic Research.
