Wesley L. Boykin, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Director of Research and Policy
National Center for Educational Achievement

Director of Research and Policy, National Center for Educational Achievement, Austin, Texas
Biographical Sketch

Dr. Wesley L. Boykin has worked for 24 years in human services, education, and educational accountability. His education, career, and research have focused on critical issues such as minority achievement, instructional reform, integrated learning, and instructional technology, as well as the psycho-social correlates of health and health conditions of minority populations.

Dr. Boykin has served as Chief Administrator for Strategic Planning and School Support and the Accountability and Assessment Officer at Prince George's County Public Schools in Maryland. He served as the Director of Shared Accountability for Montgomery County (MD) Public Schools. As Director, Boykin trained staff and parents in the appropriate use of test scores; managed research on testing issues; conducted nationally-recognized research and evaluation studies relating to the instructional program, management issues, and special services; and established a consistent, uniform, and precise reporting mechanism for the transmission of information from the schools into a central data bank.

Previously, Dr. Boykin was employed at the Institute for Student Achievement in Lake Success, New York. He also worked at Riverdeep Interactive Learning, Inc., a educational software development corporation based in Dublin, Ireland, where he was employed as the Director of Research and Evaluation. He served as the Director of the Office of Program Evaluation and Standards in the Dallas Independent School District (TX) and as an Assistant Professor of Health Education at Claflin College in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Dr. Boykin began his career in the Milwaukee Public Schools as an English teacher.

Boykin served on several United Stated Department of Education panels and committees, including seven years as a National Review Panelist for the Blue Ribbon Schools Program. In addition, he has presented at national educational conferences and workshops on such topics as academic accountability, minority student achievement, and parental involvement and responsibility.

Wesley Boykin is a member of the American Educational Research Association, American Evaluation Association, Phi Delta Kappa, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. In 2003, Dr. Boykin was appointed to the Board of Directors of the National Alliance of Black School educators, where he leads the Moody Research and Development Institute. He is the recipient of the National Association of Federal Education Program Administrators' State Leadership Award for contributions to the education of disadvantaged youth and support of state initiatives in federal education programs.

Dr. Boykin, a native of Warsaw, North Carolina, graduated with honors from James Kenan High School. He is a magna cum laude graduate of North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro. He received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from The University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, as well as a post-doctoral Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed his mid-management certification requirements at the University of North Texas in Denton. He has studied internationally in the Republic of South Africa, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic.