Who We Are

Marcia Davis is an associate professor in the School of Education and is a Co-Director of the Center for Social Organization of Schools. She currently teaches courses in mixed methods and evaluation in the Doctor of Education degree program and advises in the PhD degree program. Marcia has a master’s degree in Educational Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation and a doctoral degree in Educational Psychology. She has conducted research on a range of topics that include supporting struggling adolescent readers, measurement of adolescent reading motivation, and the use of early warning indicators and systems for dropout prevention.

Lieny Jeon is the Jeffrey Alexander Grigg Associate Professor in the Department of Advanced Studies in Education at Johns Hopkins School of Education. She leads the Early Childhood Data Collaborative (ECDC) which is an early childhood focused research-practice partnership. She received her PhD degree in Human Development and Family Science with a minor in Quantitative Method at Ohio State University. She completed her post-doctoral training in the Department of Defense Child Development Virtual Laboratory School. Her research focuses on early care and education, family characteristics and neighborhood disadvantage that impact children’s lives.