Biography

Dr. Bodilly 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.

Biography

At RAND, Bodilly has developed analytic techniques for comparative case study analyses and led projects that investigate how public organizations encourage innovation and improve services. She has evaluated several different programs, such as integrated academic and vocational education reforms and the GE Foundation College Bound Program. She led the implementation analysis of the New American Schools Initiative and was coleader of RAND's contribution to the National Assessment for Vocational Education. She is currently leading an evaluation of the Ford Foundation's Collaborating for Education Reform and an assessment of the Wallace Foundation's effort to improve out-of-school policy supports. Bodilly came to RAND from the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress.

Bodilly's recent RAND publications include Revitalizing Arts Education Through Community-Wide Coordination (Susan J. Bodilly et al., 2008); Making Out-of-School-Time Matter: Evidence for an Action Agenda (Susan J. Bodilly and Megan K. Beckett, 2005); and Expanding the Reach of Education Reforms: Perspectives from Leaders in the Scale-Up of Educational Interventions (Thomas K. Glennan et al., 2004).