Graduate School of Education


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  • Sophie D'Souza

    Sophie D'Souza

    Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2023

    BioSophie D'Souza is a PhD student in Developmental and Psychological Sciences with a cross-area specialisation in Race, Inequality, and Language in Education.

  • William Damon

    William Damon

    Professor of Education

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDevelopment of purpose through the lifespan; educational methods for promoting purpose and the capacity for good work.

  • Linda Darling-Hammond

    Linda Darling-Hammond

    Charles E. Ducommun Professor in the School of Education, Emerita

    BioLinda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University and founding president of the Learning Policy Institute, created to provide high-quality research for policies that enable equitable and empowering education for each and every child. At Stanford she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and served as faculty sponsor for the Stanford Teacher Education Program, which she helped to redesign.

    Darling-Hammond is past president of the American Educational Research Association and recipient of its awards for Distinguished Contributions to Research, Lifetime Achievement, Research Review, and Research-to-Policy. She is also a member of the American Association of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Education. From 1994–2001, she was executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, whose 1996 report What Matters Most: Teaching for America’s Future was named one of the most influential reports affecting U.S. education in that decade. In 2006, Darling-Hammond was named one of the nation’s ten most influential people affecting educational policy. In 2008, she directed President Barack Obama's Education Policy Transition Team. She is currently President of the California State Board of Education.

    Darling-Hammond began her career as a public school teacher and co-founded both a preschool and a public high school. She served as Director of the RAND Corporation’s education program and as an endowed professor at Columbia University, Teachers College before coming to Stanford. She has consulted widely with federal, state and local officials and educators on strategies for improving education policies and practices and is the recipient of 14 honorary degrees in the U.S. and internationally. Among her more than 600 publications are a number of award-winning books, including The Right to Learn, Teaching as the Learning Profession, Preparing Teachers for a Changing World and The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment will Determine our Future. She received an Ed.D. from Temple University (with highest distinction) and a B.A. from Yale University (magna cum laude).

  • Margaret de Leon

    Margaret de Leon

    Graduate Visiting Researcher Student, Education

    BioMargaret de Leon is a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University, under the supervision of Professor Mitchell Stevens, at the Pathways Network. She is a PhD Research Fellow at the University of Toronto, specializing in Comparative International Higher Education. Her research interests include college affordability, economics of education, and financial aid policy in the United States and Canada.

    She is also a Visiting Doctoral Scholar at the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of California Berkeley. She completed her MA in Higher Education and Educational Policy at the University of Toronto and her BA in Political Science and French at Trinity College.

  • Thomas Dee

    Thomas Dee

    Barnett Family Professor, Professor of Education, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

    BioThomas S. Dee, Ph.D., is the Barnett Family Professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education (GSE), a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), a Senior Fellow (Joint) at the Hoover Institution, and the Faculty Director of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities. His research focuses largely on the use of quantitative methods to inform contemporary issues of public policy and practice. In 2024, he received the Peter H. Rossi Award for Contributions to the Theory or Practice of Program Evaluation from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) and the Outstanding Public Communication of Education Research Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA).