Center for Education Policy Analysis

Three Ideas for Broad-Access Higher Education

Obama nominates Susanna Loeb to NBES

Education Gap Grows Between Rich & Poor

SFUSD partners with School of Education

Inaugural CEPA Supper

CEPA in the News

Susanna Loeb

Education is the Key to a Healthy Economy
In addressing our current fiscal and economic woes, too often we neglect a key ingredient of our nation's economic future - the human capital produced by our K-12 school system. An improved education system would lead to a dramatically different future for the U.S., because educational outcomes strongly affect economic growth and the distribution of income.

So should schools focus their resources on the racial achievement gap or the income gap?. Minnesota Public Radio

A New Take on 'No Excuses' - Tackling Poverty to Provide Meaningful Opportunity. The Huffington Post

We Need Experienced Teachers. The Huffington Post

Coaching College Freshmen So They Don't Drop Out. Bloomberg Businessweek

Teacher Turnover Affects All Students' Achievement, Study Indicates. Education Week

Featured Publications

Effective schools: Teacher hiring, assignment, development, and retention. Susanna Loeb, Tara Beteille, Demetra Kalogrides. Education Finance and Policy, Forthcoming.

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Hometown disadvantage? It depends on where you’re from: teachers' location preferences and the implications for staffing schools. Michelle Reininger. Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Forthcoming.

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Brown fades: The end of court-ordered school desegregation and the resegregation of American public schools. Sean F. Reardon, Elena Grewal, Demetra Kalogrides, Erica Greenberg. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Forthcoming.

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The role of simplification and information in college decisions: Results from the H&R Block FAFSA experiment. Eric P. Bettinger, Bridget Terry Long, Philip Oreopoulos, Lisa Sanbonmatsu. NBER Working Paper No. 15361, 2012.

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Research Areas

Accountability Choice College Access and Success Early Childhood Educational Equity Education Governance Education Policy English Language Learners Higher Education Institutions International Education Methodology, Measurement School Finance School Leadership School Quality/Resources Societal Context Student Success Teacher Quality

Upcoming Events

Income, Inequality, and Educational Success: New Evidence about Socioeconomic Status and Educational Outcomes

May 15-16, 2012
Stanford University

Events

Thursday
May 17

J. Lawrence Aber
3:30pm - 5:00pm
CERAS 100B

Thursday
May 24

Candace Thille
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Cubberley 115

Thursday
May 31

Cynthia Miller-Idriss
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Cubberley 115

Career Opportunities

The Center for Educational Policy Analysis (CEPA) in the School of Education seeks the following:

Postdoctoral Training Fellowship: Reform and Innovation in the Changing Ecology of U.S. Higher Education

Quantitative Policy Analyst

Associate Director