Sarah Rannells Powell is an American scholar of education focusing on special education and learning disabilities in mathematics education. She is a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Texas at Austin, holder of the Audrey Rogers Myers Centennial Professorship in Education, and associate director of the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk. She has been a strong advocate for the use of traditional education in mathematics and for the use of educational research to evaluate the effectiveness of mathematics education techniques.