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.

A new study published in the American Educational Research Journal found partnerships between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and local police departments designed to enforce immigration laws reduced the number of Hispanic students in U.S. public schools in adopting counties by 10 percent after two years. Read the press release

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) will be hiring up to 5 researchers through USAJOBS starting on July 29. AERA encourages well-qualified candidates with appropriate education research backgrounds to open an account with USAJOBS and upload a draft resume before the job openings are posted. Learn 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. The nominees will run for office in the 2020 election. Read more 

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

Prudence L. Carter, dean and professor of the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, and national expert on inequality in education, has been selected by AERA to present the 2019 Brown Lecture in Education Research. This public lecture will take place on October 24 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. Read the press release