Our Story

For over 9 years, JC Research Group has been collaborating with partners to help improve educational outcomes by applying research, measurement, and evaluation practices to solve complex problems affecting Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people.

Using innovative methodology and cutting edge frameworks, JC Research Group is dismantling educational inequities and improving the lives of marginalized children, families and communities in the US and abroad.

Our Methodology

  • Because Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people require new approaches, new tools, and new ways to use established methodologies to dismantle systemic racism. Clearly the same old same old won't work unless we want to repeat history.

  • We are thought leaders who partner with national organizations focused on improving educational measurement and evaluation. We disseminate our work at national conferences and through academic journals in order to share critical scholarship and best practices.

  • Diversity, equity, and inclusion is embedded in everything we do. We prioritize working collaboratively with stakeholders, especially those whose voices are often silenced.

Our Founder

Dr. Jade Caines Lee has been a career educator for over 20 years. She taught K-12 students for 12 years in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City and the Greater Atlanta, GA area and has been teaching and mentoring graduate students for over a decade.

Dr. Lee received her undergraduate degree in Urban Education from Stanford University, her master’s degree in Teaching Secondary English from Brooklyn College, and her doctorate in Educational Studies (with a concentration in educational research, measurement, and evaluation) from Emory University. She was an Institute of Education Sciences’ postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and uses her experiences as a student, teacher, researcher, and evaluator to enhance the service offerings of JC Research Group.

To learn more about Dr. Jade Caines Lee, please visit www.jadecaineslee.com

Listen, Reflect, Think

“I think one of the things that makes JC Research Group unique is that they take the time to listen and reflect back what was said, as well as provide new ways of thinking about a particular challenge."

—  Ph.D. graduate and former client