Dean Susan H. Fuhrman
Dr. Susan Fuhrman is the Dean and George and Diane Weiss Professor of
Education at the Penn Graduate School of Education. She is also Chair
of the Management Committee of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education
(CPRE). CPRE conducts research on state and local education policies and
finance, bringing together the resources of Penn, Harvard, Michigan, Stanford,
and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Consortium receives significant
funding from the Office of Educational Research and Improvement of the
U.S. Department of Education.
Dr. Fuhrman received bachelor's and master's degrees in history from Northwestern
University, and a Ph.D. in political science and education from Columbia
University. She has written widely on education policy and finance; among
her edited books are From the Capitol to the Classroom: Standards-Based
Reform in the States (2001), Designing Coherent Education Policy:
Improving the System (1993), and Rewards and Reform: Creating Educational
Incentives that Work (co-edited with Jennifer O'Day, 1996).
Among her many international and U.S. professional involvements, Dr. Fuhrman
is a Member, Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching, a member of the Board of Public/Private Ventures and a member
of the Coca-Cola Council for Corporate and School Partnerships. She is
also a member of the Research Grants Council for the University Grants
Commission of Hong Kong and a Counselor to the Shanghai Municipal Education
Commission. She is a former Vice President of the American Educational
Research Association, and serves on the editorial boards of Educational
Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Education Policy and the American
Education Research Journal. Her research interests include state policy
design, accountability in education, deregulation, intergovernmental relationships,
and standards-based reform.