Professor
COUNSELING, SCHOOL AND EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND POLICY
Big Data; Access and Equity; International Education; Educational Policy; Leadership; Large-Scale Assessment and Research; Higher Education; STEM 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 a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), a Fellow of the National Education Policy Center (NEPC), and a Fulbright Global Scholar, Lee is an international leader in educational policy research and evaluation on the issues of educational accountability, excellence and equity. His research is aimed at improving evidence-based policies and high-impact practices towards holistic and equitable education for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), while advocating systemic, cross-sector whole-child education reform for closing the achievement/well-being gaps among disadvantaged and marginalized students.
His interdisciplinary research draws on equity-centered critical policy analysis and quantitative methods, with the secondary analysis of large-scale national education datasets. 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). His research helped inform and advance educational reform policy debates across the nation, including work in collaboration with the University of Colorado National Education Policy Center, the Harvard University Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project, and the UCLA Civil Rights Project.
His research has been supported and recognized with many grants, fellowships and awards. His projects received funding support from the AERA, IES, NCES, NSF, and Spencer Foundation. He was the recipient of the National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, the AERA Raymond B. Cattell Early Career Award, the Fellowship of the Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), the Rockefeller Institute of the Government Richard P. Nathan Public Policy Fellowship, the Korean-American Educational Researcher Association (KAERA) Distinguished Researcher Award, the Western New York Educational Service Council Robert W. Heller Award, the Fulbright Global Scholar Award (Visiting Scholars in Korea, Kazakhstan and Vietnam), and the World Education Research Association (WERA) Visiting Researcher Award (South Africa). He is the Chair of AERA International Relations Committee, promoting international exchange of innovative research ideas and best practices for global education improvement.