The 2024 AERA membership year is now underway. In a new video, AERA President Tyrone Howard shares the impact of AERA on his professional life and the value of being part of the AERA community. 

On November 20, AERA co-signed a letter with 186 other national, state, and local organizations to offer strong support for a proposal issued by the U.S. Census Bureau to conduct a test of sexual orientation, gender identity, and variations in sex characteristics measures on the American Community Survey. Read more

On October 19, Leslie T. Fenwick presented the 20th Anniversary Brown Lecture in Education Research, “Otherwise Qualified: The Untold Story of Brown and Black Educators’ Professional Superiority,” to an in-person audience of well over 400 and a virtual audience of more than 1,000 from 20 countries. Read more and watch the recorded lecture.

This November, AERA will release Inequality in Key Skills of City Youth: An International Comparison, edited by Stephen Lamb and Russell W. Rumberger. Read more

AERA will continue to offer the Annual Meeting Graduate Student Assistance Fund that was launched in 2023. The Call for Applications closes on January 3.

The recording of the 2023 AERA Presidential Address, given by AERA Past President Rich Milner during the 2023 Annual Meeting, is now available to view.

AERA is pleased to accept papers for an important volume of Review of Research in Education, Equitable Educational Systems that Cultivate Thriving. Scholars are encouraged to bring their creative and expansive thinking to reimagine new kinds of education and learning systems that cultivate thriving within and across communities. The deadline for the Call for Proposals is January 15.

AERA seeks nominations for the 21st Annual Brown lecture in Education Research. Nominations are due February 15, 2024. View the Call for Nominations.