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Jeynes, William H.
Non-Resident Scholar, Education Dr. Jeynes is one of the nation’s leading researchers on the influence of religiosity, attending religious schools, Bible literacy, character education, family structure, and parental involvement. He has conducted meta-analyses and examined nationwide data sets examining each of these issues. His research has divulged, among other things, that when African American and Latino students are religious and from intact families, the achievement gap with white students disappears. He is heavily involved, along a number of dimensions, in getting the Bible as Literature taught in the public schools. 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 written approximately 70 academic articles and 9 books. 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 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, the largest church in the world in Seoul, Korea, Harvard 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 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, and many other major newspapers. His worked 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 journal’s websites, are in the top 5-10 of the most cited and read articles published by these journals in their 40+ year history. Dr. Jeynes has also gained admission into Who’s Who in the World.
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