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AERA to Live-stream 15 Annual Meeting Sessions
Washington, D.C., April 10, 2018 – The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has announced that it is live-streaming 15 sessions at its 2018 Annual Meeting in New York City, April 13 - 17. The free live-streamed sessions will feature prominent scholars and policy experts speaking on key issues, including research on gun violence and its implications for schools and communities, sexual harassment in the academy, school segregation, the role of public education in addressing racial injustice, and the rise of nonprofit education journalism, among others.
Live-stream registration is open. Follow the live conversation on Twitter using the session hashtags and #AERA18.
Live-streamed Sessions, Listed Chronologically: All times are Eastern Time
Friday, April 13, 4:30 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. ET
Session Hashtag: #AERAGunViolenceRsch
At a time when gun violence, on average, takes the lives of 100 people and injures hundreds more in the United States every day, credible, scientific research has never been more important to our understanding of what works to prevent gun violence. The speakers will also discuss the implications of gun violence research on schools and communities.
Full Session Details
Friday, April 13, 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Session Hashtag: #AERAOpening
The opening plenary session, titled “Imagining Radically, Practicing Hope: How Public Education Could Disrupt Racial Injustice,” will be an enriching discussion featuring a panel of educators, researchers, activists, and historians who will launch our collective conversation about public education, its central role in our struggle for justice, and the lessons we must learn from those who came before us.
Saturday, April 14, 8:15 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. ET
The year 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the Bilingual Education Act (BEA). Passed in 1968, the BEA was initiated in response to the high dropout rate of low-income Spanish speaking students learning English as a second language. A half century later, language minority students still suffer under pervasive inequities in public education that warrant immediate redress.
Saturday, April 14, 10:35 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. ET
Saturday, April 14, 12:25 p.m. to 1:55 p.m. ET Session Hashtag: #AERADistinguished Full Session Details
Saturday, April 14, 4:05 p.m. to 6:05 p.m. ET
Session Hashtag: #AERAMeToo
This forum speaks to contemporary concerns about the ways in which power differentials and dominant social norms and practices have led to sexual harassment, abuse, and intimidation in scientific and academic workplaces.
Saturday, April 14, 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Session Hashtag: #AERASJ
Sunday, April 15, 12:25 p.m. to 2:25 p.m. ET
Session Hashtag: #AERAAwards
Sunday, April 15, 10:35 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. ET
Session Hashtag: #AERAContributions
Sunday, April 15, 2:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. ET
Session Hashtag: #AERAWallace
Sunday, April 15, 4:35 p.m. to 5:50 p.m. ET
Session Hashtag: #AERAPres
AERA President Deborah Loewenberg Ball will give the 2018 Presidential Address, titled “Just Dreams and Imperatives: The Power of Teaching in the Struggle for Public Education.” Working to make teaching a force that can regularly disrupt the injustices that persist in, and through, teaching practice requires facing and managing tensions between constraint and discretion, as well as between professional boundaries and autonomy.
Monday, April 16, 8:15 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. ET
Sixty-four years post the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, racially integrated schools remain an elusive dream. This session interrogates the elusiveness and assumptions of this dream by documenting and troubling the persistence, evolution, and effects of school segregation as well as the prospect, character, and (un)realized promises of integrated schools. Full Session Details
Monday, April 16, 10:35 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. ET
Session Hashtag: #AERAServe
Monday, April 16, 12:25 p.m. to 1:55 p.m. ET
As the news media industry has undergone profound change, a positive development amid the disruption has been the growth in philanthropy-supported news outlets, including those that specialize in education coverage.
Monday, April 16, 2:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. ET
This symposium examines how students in the divided societies of Northern Ireland (NI), South Africa (SA), and the United States (US) develop as democratic citizens and civic actors, the role secondary schools play in their development, and the ways young people who live on different sides of societal divides navigate division.
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