Beth Schueler

Beth Schueler

Associate Professor of Education and Public Policy


Education & Training
EdD, Education Policy, Leadership, and Instructional Practice, Harvard University
MA, Politics and Education, Columbia University
BA, Fine Art, Whitman College

Beth Schueler is an associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia. She studies education policy, politics, and inequality with a focus on efforts to improve low-performing K-12 schools and districts. She uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to learn which policies are most effective at improving educational organizations and what makes these policies more or less politically viable. Her work in these areas has been published in journals such as Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisEducation Finance and PolicyEducational Administration Quarterly, and Public Opinion Quarterly, and has been covered by media outlets such as the New York TimesBoston Globe, and Education Week. Prior to joining the faculty at UVA, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Schueler holds a doctorate in education policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, holds a master’s degree in politics and education from Columbia University’s Teachers College, has taught on the politics of education at Brown University, and previously worked on legislative affairs at the New York City Council.