Professor
COUNSELING, SCHOOL AND EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND POLICY
Big Data; Access and Equity; International Education; Educational Policy; Large-Scale Assessment and Research; Leadership; STEM education; Higher Education; Race, Inequality, and Education; Social Justice; Psychometrics; Quantitative Research Methods; Program Evaluation; Social and Emotional Development
Jaekyung Lee, (University of Chicago, PhD), is a professor and former dean of education at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Being an advocate for whole-child/youth development and universal learning rights, Lee specializes in educational policy research, assessment and evaluation with focus on the issues of educational equity and accountability. His research is aimed at improving evidence-based policies and practices towards closing the inequalities of education opportunities and achievement/well-being gaps among disadvantaged and marginalized students across the world. Lee is the author/editor of books, including "The Anatomy of Achievement Gaps: Why and How American Education is Losing (But Can Still Win) the War on Underachievement" (Oxford University Press, 2016) and "Centering Whole-Child Development in Global Education Reform: International Perspectives on Agendas for Educational Equity and Quality" (Routledge, 2022).
Lee is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), a Fellow of the National Education Policy Center (NEPC), a Fellow of the Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), a Fulbright Global Scholar, and the World Education Research Association (WERA) and International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) visiting researcher. Lee is a Co-PI of the Center for Early Literacy and Responsible AI (CELaRAI): Innovating Beginning Reading Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners (IES-funded research grant, 2024-29). He currently serves as the Chair of AERA International Relations Committee.