Kevin Gee

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Kevin Gee
Associate Professor,
University of California, Davis

Kevin Gee is an associate professor at the UC Davis School of Education and a faculty research affiliate with UC Davis’s Center for Poverty Research. He is a recipient of a 2015 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship; a 2014 Young Scholars Program award from the Foundation for Child Development; and a 2015–16 Hellman Fellowship from UC Davis. His primary research focuses on the role that schooling systems can play in influencing the health and well-being of children. Gee has expertise in conducting large-scale evaluations of educational policies and programs using experimental and quasi-experimental designs. He received his PhD in quantitative policy analysis in education from Harvard Graduate School of Education.

updated 2020

Publications by Kevin Gee
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…
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…