Our Staff

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SUSAN J. BODILLY
Senior Social Scientist
Director, RAND Education

Dr. Bodilly, PhD in Public Policy, has worked at RAND for more than 23 years. Her primary research interests and expertise lie in K-12 school reform, resource allocation and its impact on reforms, formative evaluation, and implementation analysis. She has evaluated an array of K-12 improvement initiatives such as: the General Electric College Bound program; attempts by high schools to integrate academic and vocational education; attempts by the federal government to return Section Six schools on military bases to local control; and attempts by schools to implement Perkins legislation as evaluated under the National Assessment of Vocational Education. She played a leading role in the RAND evaluation of the New American Schools Initiative. She recently led projects to manage review panels to choose research projects for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and to provide analytic support to the Walton Family Foundation on its choice program. She is currently leading an effort to assess the Ford Foundation's Collaborating for Educational Reform Initiative, co-editing a book on scale up issues in education, and co-writing a literature review on the use of out-of-school-time. She has been the Group Manager for Health, Education and Welfare responsible for recruiting, hiring and professional development. She is currently the Director of RAND Education.

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