Kevin Gee

Kevin Gee
Kevin Gee
Associate Professor,
School of Education at the University of California, Davis

Kevin Gee is an associate professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Davis, and a faculty research affiliate with the University's Center for Poverty Research. He is a recipient of the 2015 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, a 2014 Young Scholars Program award from the Foundation for Child Development, and a 2015-6 UC Davis Hellman Fellowship. His primary research agenda focuses on the nexus between health and education. He examines the role that schooling systems can play in influencing the health and well-being of children. Dr. Gee also has expertise in conducting large-scale evaluations of educational policies and programs using experimental and quasi-experimental designs. He received a Ph.D. in quantitative policy analysis in education from Harvard University.

Contributing topics
Continuous school improvement & support
Educational governance & policy
Supporting students’ social-emotional, mental & physical health
Understanding, measuring & improving student outcomes
Publications by Kevin Gee
Policy Brief Gee February 2020
Students with Disabilities in the CORE Districts
Characteristics, Outcomes and Transitions
In this brief, we leverage data from eight school districts, known as the CORE districts, to describe students with disabilities (SWDs) by their characteristics, outcomes, and transitions into and out of special education. We found that the most…
Policy Brief Gee February 2020
Students with Disabilities and Differentiated Assistance
Under California’s System of Support, differentiated assistance (DA) provides supports to eligible districts to boost student group performance levels. This brief describes the districts that were eligible for DA in 2019 based on the performance…
Chronic Absence in California
What New Dashboard Data Reveals About School Performance
In this policy brief, we describe the chronic absence performance levels of California’s districts, schools, and student groups using newly released data from California’s School Dashboard. We also examine the role that chronic absence plays in…