Jaekyung Lee

Jaekyung Lee, PhD, is a professor and former dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo. A fellow of the prestigious American Educational Research Association (AERA), Lee is an internationally recognized leader in educational policy, accountability and equity, and international and comparative education. He has a PhD in education from the University of Chicago. Lee is currently a Richard P. Nathan Fellow of the Rockefeller Institute of Government. He was also a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and a fellow of the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the recipient of 2007 AERA Raymond B. Cattell Early Career Award and 2015 Western New York Educational Service Council Robert W. Heller Award. Lee is the author of "The Anatomy of Achievement Gaps: Why and How American Education is Losing (But Can Still Win) the War on Underachievement" (Oxford University Press).

• PhD, University of Chicago
• BA, Yonsei University
• MA, Yonsei University

• Outstanding Reviewer Award (2014); AERA (American Education Research Journal);
• Richard P. Nathan Fellowship (2018); The Rockefeller Institute of Government;
• Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA); AERA;
• Robert W. Heller Award (2015); Western New York Educational Service Council;
• Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University (2009); CASBS, Stanford University;

• Academic and Sociocultural Readiness for Postgraduate Education among Immigrant and International Students: Promoting Equal Access and Success in Graduate/Professional Schools; Foundation and Research Organization; Association for Institutional Research; Awarded; (03/01/2019-05/31/2020)

• Lee, J. (2016). The Anatomy of Achievement Gaps: Why and How American Education is Losing (but can still Win) the War on Underachievement. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Lee, J. & Kang, C. S. (2019). A litmus test of school accountability policy effects in Korea: cross-validating high-stakes test results for academic excellence and equity. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, DOI: 10.1080/02188791.2019.1598851
• Lee, J., Kim, N., & Wu, Y. (2018). College Readiness and Engagement Gaps between Domestic and International Students: Re-envisioning Educational Diversity and Equity for Global Campus. Higher Education. DOI: 10.1007/s10734-018-0284-8
• Lee, J., Finn, J. & Liu, X. (2018). Time-Indexed Effect Size for Educational Research and Evaluation. Journal of Experimental Education. DOI: 10.1080/00220973.2017.1409183
• Collins, J. L., Lee, J., Fox, J. D., & Madigan, T. P. (2017). Bringing Together Reading and Writing: An Experimental Study of Writing Intensive Reading Comprehension (WIRC) in Low-Performing Urban Elementary Schools. Reading Research Quarterly. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rrq.175
• Lee, J., & Wu, Y. (2017). Is the Common Core Racing America to the Top? Tracking changes in state standards, school practices, and student achievement. Education Policy Analysis Archives. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.25.2834.
• Lee, J., Weis, L., Liu, K., & Kang, C. (2017). Which Type of High School Maximizes Students' College Match? Unequal Pathways to Postsecondary Destinations for Students from Varying High School Settings. The Journal of Higher Education. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2016.1272327
• Lee, J., Kim, Y., & Shin, H. (2016). Hak-ryeok-gyeok-cha-eu Byeon-hwa-chu-seo-wa Hae-so-bang-an [A study on Korea national achievement gap trends and remedial measures.]. Han-kuk-kyo-yuk [Journal of Korean Education, 43(1), 261-286].
• Lee, J. & D. Park (2014). Do American and Korean education systems converge? Tracking school reform policies and outcomes in Korea and the USA. Asia Pacific Education Review, 15(3), 391-399.

• Lee, J. & Amo, L. (2016). International and Interstate Analyses of Student- and School-Targeted Accountability Policy Effects. (pp. 3-22) In Sharpes, D. (Ed.). Handbook on Comparative and International Studies in Education. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
• Lee, J. (2015). Educational Testing: Measuring and Remedying Achievement Gaps. In R. Scott & S. Kosslyn (Eds.) Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.

• Choi, J. & Lee, J. (2016). Review of “The Next Generation of Testing: Common Core Standards, Smarter-Balanced, PARCC, and the Nationwide Testing Movement.” Teachers College Record [Online]. Available: http://www.tcrecord.org

• Lee, J. (2019). NEPC Review: “The Effects of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program on College Enrollment and Graduation: An Update.” Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center. Retrieved [date] from http://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/tax-credit.
• Lee, J., Kim, N., Cobanoglu, A., & O’Connor, M. (2019). Moving to educational accountability system 2.0: Socioemotional learning standards and protective environment for whole child development. Education Policy Report. Albany, NY: The Rockefeller Institute of the Government.

• Lee, J. (2018, August). For whom the school bell rings: The case for closing educational inequalities and achievement gaps. The University of Canberra Distinguished International Scholar’s Seminar. Canberra, Australia.;

• Lee, J. & Kim, T. (2019, April). Are Schools Effective for Whole Child Development? Multi-objective Value-added Model (MOVAM) of School Effects on Academic and Socioemotional Learning, Paper presented at the 2019 annual meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA), Toronto, Canada.;
• Lee, J., Kim, N., & Wu, Y. (2018, April). College Readiness and Engagement Gaps between Domestic and International Students: Re-envisioning Educational Diversity and Equity for Global Campus. Paper presented at the 2018 annual meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA), New York, New Work.;
• Lee, J. & Kang, C. (2017, April). Korean Way of “No Child Left Behind”: A Comparative Study of Accountability Policy Impact on Educational Inequalities and Achievement Gaps. Paper presented at the 2017 annual meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Antonio, Texas.;
• Lee, J. & Wu, Y. (2017, April). Is the Common Core Racing America to the Top? Tracking changes in state standards, school practices, and student achievement. Paper presented at the 2017 annual meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Antonio, Texas.;
• Lee, J. & Kim, N. (2016, April). Small Frog in a Big Pond vs. Big Frog in a Small Pond: Comparing Actual and Perceived Math Achievement Gaps among Korean, Korean-American Immigrant and Korean-American Native Students. Paper presented at the 2016 annual meeting of World Educational Research Association (WERA), Washington, DC.;
• Lee, J. & Liu, K. (2015, April). Is High School-College Pipeline Working or Broken under NCLB Accountability System? Comparative Interrupted Time-series Analyses of High School Graduation and College Enrollment Trends. Paper presented at the 2015 annual meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago.;

• Editorial Board Member, Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2007 – Present
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• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1998 – Present
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• Editorial Board Member, American Educational Research Journal (Social and Institutional Analysis Section), 2014 - 2017
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• Editorial Board Member, Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI) Journal of Educational Policy, 2009 – Present
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