Watch as AERA President Vanessa Siddle Walker discusses the 2020 Annual Meeting Theme, "The Power and Possibilities for the Public Good When Researchers and Organizational Stakeholders Collaborate." The 2020 Annual Meeting will take place April 17-21 in San Francisco, California.

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) will be hiring up to five researchers through USAJOBS starting on August 15. The positions will support a range of study design, data collection, and reporting activities about elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education with a heavy quantitative focus. Learn more

The 2019 volume of Review of Research in Education (RRE), titled “Changing Teaching Practice in P–20 Educational Settings," casts a sharp lens on the challenges and opportunities faced by those who work toward changing teaching practice as well as those who research these efforts. Read more

The AERA Nominating Committee seeks recommendations of candidates for AERA-wide offices. Members are encouraged to recommend names of persons with experience appropriate to both of these posts. All recommendations must be received by Monday, September 9. Nominate here

Latino children are likely to enter elementary schools this year with fewer white peers than a generation ago, judging by data reported in a new study published in Educational Researcher. Read the press release

A new study published in the American Educational Research Journal found that the high-stakes accountability policies used to monitor the quality of Head Start preschool centers may miss important variation in classroom quality within centers, which could lead to incorrect representations of center quality and inaccurate decisions about which programs need to re-compete for their funding. Read the press release