Sarah Beach

Sarah Beach is an inaugural Education Rights Institute Fellow and a research assistant professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law. Beach’s perspective is informed by her experience as an elementary, secondary, and university public educator and as a critical scholar. Her research interests include assessment and accountability for K-12 schools, education policy for equitable student success and systems thinking with a focus on systemic change.  

Beach’s work can be found in academic journals, handbooks and as chapters in edited books. She has presented research at conferences hosted by the American Educational Research Association, the Consortium for Research on Educational Assessment and Teaching Effectiveness, and the National Council on Measurement in Education.  

Beach holds a Ph.D. in research, statistics and evaluation from the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development, where she was a Dean’s Fellow. She also earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Richmond in political science and is licensed as a teacher in the state of Virginia in secondary English and elementary education.