Watch as AERA President Vanessa Siddle Walker discusses the cancellation of the AERA 2020 Annual Meeting. Click here to read the March 23 announcement from AERA Executive Director Felice Levine and AERA President Siddle Walker

In a March 23 letter led by AERA Executive Director Felice J. Levine and Ron Wasserstein, executive director of the ASA, House and Senate appropriators were urged to rebuild internal staff capacity at NCES, boost agency funding, and ensure that efforts that could erode the independence of NCES were scrutinized carefully. Read more

A new study published in Educational Researcher finds a strong connection between high school social studies teachers’ political ideology and how credible they find various mainstream news outlets. Click here to read the press release. Click here to read the full study.  

Authors of individual papers accepted for presentation at the 2020 Annual Meeting are encouraged to submit a final paper by June 22. They are also encouraged to opt-in to make papers available through the AERA Online Paper Repository. Learn more

In this unprecedented time, AERA strongly endorses the American Sociological Association's statement calling on higher education administrators to consider appropriate temporary adjustments to their review and reappointment processes for tenure line and contingent faculty. Read the statement 

Na'ilah Suad Nasir, president of the Spencer Foundation, has been voted president-elect of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Along with Nasir as president-elect, members elected several new AERA Council representatives. Read more