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Dr. William Jeynes

Bio

Dr. Jeynes is a Professor of Education at California State University, Long Beach and has graduate degrees from Harvard University and the University of Chicago. He graduated first in his class from Harvard University and received the Rosenberger Award at the University of Chicago for being named as his cohort's most outstanding student. He has approximately 100 academic publications, including 70 articles, 10 books, and 20 book chapters. His articles have appeared in journals by Columbia University, Harvard University (two Harvard journals), the University of Chicago, Cambridge University, Brown University, Notre Dame University, and other prestigious academic journals. He has also written for the White House. He is a well-known public speaker having spoken in nearly every state in the country and in every inhabited continent. He has spoken for the White House, the US Department of Justice, the US Department of Education, the US Department of Health & Human Services, the National Press Club, UN delegates, members of Congress, the Acting President of South Korea, Harvard University, Cambridge University, Duke University, Notre Dame University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and many other well known universities. He has spoken for both the G.W. Bush & Obama administrations and interacted with each of these presidents. He has been a consultant for both the US & South Korean governments. His 4-point plan presented to the Acting President of South Korea became the core of that nation's 1998 economic stimulus legislation, which helped it emerge from the greatest Asian economic crisis since World War II. Dr. Jeynes has been interviewed or quoted by the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the London Times, the Associated Press (AP), CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX and many other media outlets. His work has been cited and quoted numerous times by the U.S. Congress, the British Parliament, the EU, and many State Supreme Courts across the United States. Dr. Jeynes has worked with and spoken for the Harvard Family Research Project. A number of Dr. Jeynes' articles for Urban Education and Education & Urban Society, according to these journals’ websites, are in the top 5-10 of the most cited and read articles published by these journals in their 45-year history. Dr. Jeynes has also gained admission into Who's Who in the World for the last five consecutive years.
Degrees
Ph.D., University of Chicago (Rosenberger Award)
Ed.M., Harvard University (graduated first in his class)
Research Interests



Dr. Jeynes’ research interests cover a wide range of issues in part because he has degrees or emphases in a wide range of fields that include education, psychology, economics, history, religion, and sociology. His multidisciplinary approach has helped enable him to develop special relationships with the US and Korean governments. It is therefore not surprising that he is very interested in how research can be applied to public policy. He has done a considerable amount of quantitative and qualitative research on how to bridge the achievement gap, parental involvement, religious commitment, historical trends, school choice, family structure, religious schools, discrimination, bullying, reading instruction, and public policy. He has served as an advisor and witness in an attempt to pass important legislation and has regularly written portions of amicus briefs submitted to various state supreme courts across the country.
Representative Publications



*Representative Books

Jeynes, William. (2010). Parental Involvement & Academic Success. New York:

Taylor & Francis/Routledge.



Jeynes, William, ed. (2010). Family Factors and the Academic Success of

Children. New York: Taylor & Francis/Routledge.



Jeynes, William. (2010). A Call for Character Education and Prayer in the Schools

Westport, CT: Praeger.



Jeynes, William. (2007). American Educational History: School,

Society & the Common Good. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.



Jeynes, William. (2002). Divorce, Family Structure, and the Academic Success of

Children. Binghamton, New York: Haworth Press.





*Representative Articles-

Jeynes, William. (2010). The Salience of the Subtle Aspects of Parental

Involvement and Encouraging that Involvement: Implications for School-Based

Programs. Teachers College Record, 112 (3). 747-774.



Jeynes, William. (2009). The Relationship between Bible Literacy and Academic

Achievement and School Behavior. Education & Urban Society, 41 (4), 419-436.



Jeynes, William. (2008). What We Should and Should Not Learn from

the Japanese and other East Asian Education Systems? Educational Policy,

22 (6), 900-927.



Jeynes, William. (2007). The Relationship Between Parental Involvement

and Urban Secondary School Student Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analysis.

Urban Education, 42 (1), 82-110.



Jeynes, William. (2006). Standardized Tests and the True Meaning

of Kindergarten and Preschool. Teachers College Record, 108 (10), 1937-1959.



Jeynes, William. (2006). The Impact of Parental Remarriage on Children: A

Meta-Analysis. Marriage and Family Review, 40 (4), 75-102.



Jeynes, William.(2005).The Effects of Parental Involvement on the Academic Achievement of African American

Youth. Journal of Negro Education,74 (3), 260-274.



Jeynes, William. (2005). A Meta-Analysis: Parental Involvement and

Secondary Student Educational Outcomes. Evaluation Exchange of the Harvard

Family Research Project, 10 (4), 6.



Jeynes, William. (2005). A Meta-Analysis of the Relation of Parental

Involvement to Urban Elementary School Student Academic Achievement.

Urban Education, 40, (3), 237-269.



Jeynes, William. (2003). A Meta-analysis: The Effects of Parental Involvement on Minority Children’s Academic

Achievement. Education & Urban Society, 35 (2), 202-218.



Jeynes, William. (20003). The Effects of Black and Hispanic Twelfth Graders Living in Intact Families and being

Religious on their Academic Achievement. Urban Education, 38 (1), 35-57.



Jeynes, William. (2002). A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Attending Religious

Schools And Religiosity On Black And Hispanic Academic Achievement.

Education & Urban Society, 35 (1), 27-49.



Jeynes, William. (2002). Educational Policy and the Effects of Attending a

Religious School on the Academic Achievement of Children. Educational

Policy, 16 (3), 406-424.



Jeynes, William. (2002). Does Widowhood or Remarriage Have the Greater

Impact on the Academic Achievement of Children? Omega: Journal of Death and

Dying, 44 (3), 319-343.



Jeynes, William. (2002). The Relationship between the Consumption of Various Drugs by Adolescents and their

Academic Achievement. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 28 (1), 1-21.



Jeynes, William. (2001). The Effects of Recent Parental Divorce on Their

Children’s Consumption of Alcohol. Journal of Youth and Adolescence,

30 (3), 305-319.



Jeynes, William & Littell, Stephen. (2000). A Meta-analysis of Studies

Examining the Effect of Whole Language Instruction on the Literacy

of Low-SES Students. Elementary School Journal, 101 (1), 21-33.



Jeynes, William. (2000). Assessing School Choice: A Balanced

Perspective. Cambridge Journal of Education, 30 (2), 223-241.



Jeynes, William. (2000). The Effects of Several of the Most Common Family

Structures on the Academic Achievement of Eighth Graders.

Marriage and Family Review, 30 (1/2), 73-97.



Jeynes, William. (1999). The Effects of Religious Commitment on

the Academic Achievement of Black and Hispanic Children. Urban

Education, 34 (4), 458-479.



Jeynes, William. (1999). The Effects of Remarriage Following Divorce on the

Academic Achievement of Children. Journal of Youth and Adolescence,

28 (3), 385-393.



*Representative Book Chapters

Because the list of publications is rather long, please contact Dr. Jeynes regarding book chapters that he has written. His chapters have appeared primarily in books by the following publishers: Sage, Springer, NYU, and Praeger.
Campus Leadership



Dr. Jeynes is currently the Chair of the Department Retention, Tenure & Promotion (RTP) Committee.

For 3 years Dr. Jeynes served as the primary data analyst for assessing the effectiveness of the Teacher Education program via performing statistical analysis and writing a 100 page report for NCATE on the results of the analyses.

Dr. Jeynes has served on many committees that are too numerous to list here
Current Projects



Dr. Jeynes is conducting meta-analyses on the achievement gap and family structure, writing a book on American history, and editing a two-volume book entitled, The International Handbook of Protestant Education (Springer). He is also serving as editor for upcoming special editions of two education journals and is engaged in writing a variety of works. He regularly presents on the ongoing progress of his meta-analyses, because they generally each take about 3 years to complete. Dr. Jeynes has a very special relationship with a research arm of Princeton University and works very closely with them.