Soung Bae

Senior Research Associate, John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, Graduate School of Education,

Stanford University

Soung Bae is a senior research associate at the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. She leads research-practice partnerships focusing on teaching and learning in schools, collaborating with partners dedicated to the development of historically underserved youth. She previously worked at the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and also at the SU Schwab Learning Center (now affiliated with the Children’s Health Council). Bae earned her BA in psychology from the University of Maryland, an MA in special education and human development from George Washington University, and a PhD in human development and education from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Contributing topics

Educational governance & policy

Soung Bae in the Media

January 20, 2015 : New Agency Could Play Critical Role in Improving California schools

Publications by Soung Bae

October 2006

Snapshots of Reform

District Efforts to Raise Achievement across Diverse Communities in California

This paper examines the effectiveness of California's class-size reduction policy in elementary schools, finding that it improved student achievement in reading and math, particularly for low-income and minority students. However, it also concludes…