PACE People
PACE Directors
Bruce Fuller, Ph.D., is a professor of education and public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. His current work focuses on the dilemmas around the radical decentering of public aims and institutions, including child care and public schools, as well as how different groups are served by this movement. Prior to becoming a full-time scholar, Mr. Fuller worked for a state legislature, a governor, then a sociologist at the World Bank. He taught at the Harvard School of Education before returning home to the San Francisco Bay Area.
Susanna Loeb is the Barnett Family Professor of Education at Stanford University, faculty director of the Center for Education Policy Analysis, and a co-director of Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE). She 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 senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Policy Council of the Association for Policy Analysis and Management, and Co-Editor of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
Dominic J. Brewer is Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs and the Clifford H. and Betty C. Allen Professor in Urban Leadership at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. He holds courtesy appointments in the USC College Department of Economics and in the School of Policy Planning and Development. He is also a Co-Director of PACE, Policy Analysis for California Education, a policy research collaboration of USC, UC-Berkeley and Stanford.
Executive Director
Before joining PACE in January 2007, David N. Plank was a Professor at Michigan State University, where he founded and directed the Education Policy Center. He was previously on the faculties at the University of Pittsburgh and at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he taught courses and conducted research in the areas of educational finance and policy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1983. Plank is the author or editor of six books, including the AERA Handbook of Education Policy Research. He has published widely in a number of different fields, including economics of education, history of education, and educational policy. His current interests include the role of the State in education, and the relationship between academic research and public policy. In addition to his work in the United States, Plank has extensive international experience. He has served as a consultant to international organizations including the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the United States Agency for International Development, the Ford Foundation, and also to governments in Africa and Latin America.
Administrator Staff
Finance Manager, Stanford University
Email: krishna3@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-8661
Administrative Assistant, Stanford University
Email: nichols4@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 724-2832 or (650) 724-2834
Communication Specialist, Stanford University
Email: hiepho@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 575-3743
