Julie A. Marsh, PhD, is a Professor of Education Policy at the Rossier School of Education and Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California and Faculty Director of Policy Analysis for California Education at USC. Marsh specializes in research on K-12 policy and governance, blending perspectives in education, sociology, and political science. Her work focuses on educational governance and efforts to decentralize and democratize decision-making, and the equity-implications for historically marginalized students. A second major strand of her research examines accountability and instructional policy, with particular attention to the process and politics of adoption and implementation, the role of data, and the ways in which policies shape practice in urban settings. She is author of Democratic dilemmas: Joint work, education politics, and community (SUNY Press), co-author of Challenging the one best system: The portfolio management system and urban school governance (Harvard Education Press), and co-editor of School districts and instructional renewal (Teachers College Press). Prior to coming to USC in July 2010, she was at the RAND Corporation for eight years, where she last served as Senior Policy Researcher. She received a Ph.D. in Education Administration and Policy Analysis from Stanford University, a Master’s in Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley, and B.A. in American Studies from Stanford University.
