Stacy (Ehrlich) Loewe is Director of Research at the Learning Policy Institute. In this role, she ensures that high-quality research is being designed and implemented in ways that make it directly relevant to practice and policy. Her work focuses on early childhood education (ECE) and organizational conditions within educational settings. Loewe has substantive expertise in the areas of attendance, the measurement of early education program and school climate, program implementation, kindergarten transitions, and braiding of ECE funding streams.

Prior to joining LPI, Loewe was a Principal Research Scientist at NORC at the University of Chicago, where she led several federal-, state-, and local-level research initiatives aimed at improving ECE. Loewe was also previously a Managing Director and Senior Research Scientist at the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, where she developed and led the early childhood education research agenda, supported other research organizations in implementing research–practitioner partnership models, and served as the Research–Practice Coordinator for the Institute of Education Sciences Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training Program fellows at the University of Chicago. Loewe began her career as a researcher at Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, where she conducted research to respond to the needs of state departments of education.

Loewe has a PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of Chicago and a BS in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.