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

Contributing topics
College access & postsecondary success
Continuous school improvement & support
Education finance
Educational governance & policy
Educator workforce & effectiveness
Supporting students’ social-emotional, mental & physical health
Understanding, measuring & improving student outcomes
Contributing initiatives
CORE-PACE Research Partnership
COVID-19 Recovery
LCFF Research Collaborative
Organizing Schools to Serve Students with Disabilities
Commentary by Kevin Gee
: Chronic Absenteeism Post-Pandemic: Let’s Not Make This Our “New Normal”
Kevin Gee in the Media
: Winds of Change: The Pandemic Took a Substantial Toll on Education
: Study Finds Pandemic Induces Chronic Absences from School
: English Learners Disproportionately Missing from School During Pandemic
: Are America’s Schools Safe for Asian Americans?
: Media Advisory: UC Davis LIVE on Education in the Pandemic
Publications by Kevin Gee
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 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 determining…