Barnett Family Professor of Education, Stanford University 2011- 07/2018
Professor: Assistant 1999-2004, Associate 2004-2009, Full 2009-07/2018
Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE). Director 2005-07/2018
Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA) at Stanford. Faculty 2009-07/2018
Director 2009-2015; Under prior name - Institute for Research on Education Policy and Practice (IREPP) Director 2006-09
CEPA Labs. Faculty Director 2015 - present
Director 2009-2015; Under prior name - Institute for Research on Education Policy and Practice (IREPP) Director 2006-09
National Board for Education Sciences, Member 2012 – present, Vice Chair 2014 - present
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). Senior Fellow 2009-present
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Faculty Research Fellow, 2003 –present
Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, Member 2006-present
Susanna specializes in the economics of education and the relationship between schools and federal, state and local policies. Her 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. Susanna is a member of the National Board for Education Sciences, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, member of the Executive Board of the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.