NEPC Review: Beyond Race: What Really Drives Wisconsin’s Achievement Gap (Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, March 2026) [Reprint].
Abstract
Jaekyung Lee's review of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty's report, Beyond Race: What Really Drives Wisconsin’s Achievement Gap, reprinted here with the kind permission of the National Education Policy Center (NEPC), University of Colorado Boulder (http://nepc.colorado.edu). The review was made possible in part by funding from Great Lakes Center for Educational Research and Practice.
Author Biography
Jaekyung Lee, University at Buffalo SUNY
Jaekyung Lee, PhD, is a UB Distinguished Professor and former dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. A fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and a Co-PI of the National Center for Early Literacy and Responsible AI (CELaRAI), Lee is an internationally recognized leader in educational policy evaluation with focus on accountability and equity issues. 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).
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[Report reviewed] Flanders, W. (2026, March). Beyond race: What really drives Wisconsin’s achievement gap. Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty. https://will-law.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RaceAchievementStudy-web.pdf
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