Susanna Loeb

About

Susanna Loeb is a Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and holds the title of Professor, Graduate School of Education. She was previously the Director of the Annenberg Institute at Brown University, where she was also a Professor of Education and of International and Public Affairs. Loeb is 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. Her research broadly focuses on education policy and its role in improving educational opportunities for students, addressing issues such as educator career choices and professional development, school finance and governance, and early childhood systems. She was the founding director of the Center for Education Policy at Stanford and co-director of Policy Analysis for California Education, leading research for projects like Getting Down to Facts for California schools. Loeb has been recognized for her contributions by election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and she is an affiliate at NBER and JPAL, as well as a member of the National Academy of Education.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Psychology
• Demography
• Marketing
• Public relations
• Business
• Pedagogy
• Sociology
• Developmental psychology
• Social psychology

Selected publications

• Tutor CoPilot: A Human-AI Approach for Scaling Real-Time Expertise

  Research Square · 2024-11-25 · 32 citations

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• An investigation of Head Start preschool children's executive function, early literacy, and numeracy learning in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic

  Early Childhood Research Quarterly · 2023 · 26 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  DOI

• Economic approaches to teacher recruitment and retention

  Elsevier eBooks · 2020 · 21 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
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• The Effects of Virtual Tutoring on Young Readers: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial

  Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis · 2024-11-04 · 10 citations

  articleSenior author

  In-person tutoring has been shown to improve academic achievement. Fewer studies have examined the impact of virtual tutoring and have focused on older students. We present findings from the first randomized controlled trial of virtual tutoring for young children. Students in grades K–2 were assigned to 1:1 tutoring, 2:1 tutoring, or a control group. Virtual tutoring increased early literacy skills by 0.05- SD for all students and 0.08- SD for a sample excluding English learners and students wit…

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• A scalable approach to high-impact tutoring for young readers

  Learning and Instruction · 2024-09-24 · 9 citations

  articleOpen access

  Learning to read is foundational to student success in early elementary school, however many students are not proficient readers by third grade. A large body of research suggests high-impact tutoring is the most effective intervention to help struggling readers, however it can be hard to implement and scale. This study presents results from a randomized controlled trial of an early elementary reading tutoring program designed to be feasible at scale. Participants were 818 kindergarten students i…

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Frequent coauthors

• Kalena E. Cortes

  125 shared

• James Wyckoff

  University of Virginia

  116 shared

• Hamilton Lankford

  94 shared

• Donald Boyd

  88 shared

• Hans Fricke

  Amazon (Germany)

  54 shared

• Hans Fricke

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  50 shared

• Demetra Kalogrides

  Stanford University

  39 shared

• Pamela Grossman

  36 shared

Labs

• Susanna Loeb LabPI

Education

• Ph.D., Education Policy

  Stanford University

• M.A., Education and International and Public Affairs

  Brown University

• B.A.

  Harvard University

Awards & honors

• Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020)
• Member of the National Academy of Education

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