AERA Highlights

August 2017

AERA News
Education Research Policy and Funding News
AERA Calls
Beyond AERA
AERA in the News
Video of the Month

AERA News
From the Desks of the President and Executive Director: Providing Our Support for the Victims of Hurricane Harvey Hurricane Harvey has created enormous personal and professional distress to the people of Texas and the Gulf Coast. The suffering of individuals and communities in the region is horrible and the loss of lives and property is tragic. AERA supports our colleagues, students, and all others affected by this disaster.
NSF Provides Major Award for AERA Grants Program Earlier this month, AERA received a five-year $4.3 million award from the National Science Foundation to support the work of the AERA Grants Program to advance knowledge and capacity building related to STEM using large-scale national and international data resources.
Americas Initiative Continues with AERA-WERA Participation in Chile The Americas initiative in education research, launched in September 2016, took another step forward with meetings convened in Santiago, Chile, on August 8–11.
AERA Issues Statement on the Hateful Acts in Charlottesville On August 18, AERA Present Deborah Loewenberg Ball and Executive Director Felice J. Levine released a statement condemning racism in all its forms and joining others throughout the nation in the fight to eradicate hate, injustice, and racial violence. Read the statement
AERA to Co-sponsor ASA Symposium on Statistical Inference AERA, along with the American Psychological Association, is co-sponsoring the 2017 American Statistical Association Symposium on Statistical Inference, October 11-13, in Bethesda, Md.
Inaugural AERA Congressional Fellow Reflects on Year on Capitol Hill Read about Jenna Sablan's time on Capitol Hill as the 2016-17 AERA/AAAS Congressional Fellow.
COSSA’s “Why Social Science Matters” Blog Features Post by AERA Government Relations Director This month, the Consortium of Social Science Associations’ “Why Social Science Matters” blog featured a post by AERA Government Relations Director Juliane Baron on the importance of education research. Read the post


Education Research Policy and Funding News
COPAFS Names New Executive Director The Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, which advocates for the development and dissemination of high-quality federal statistics, recently named former U.S. Census Bureau director John H. Thompson as executive director, effective July 24.
AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition Examines the “Right to Science” The Science and Human Rights Coalition of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held its summer meeting in July in Washington, D.C.
National Science Board Holds Summer Quarterly Meeting The National Science Board, which sets priorities in consultation with the National Science Foundation, held its summer meeting on August 15-16.
Q&A: NSF’s Julio López-Ferrao Discusses Funding Opportunities for Early Career Scholars Julio E. López-Ferrao joined the former National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Educational System Reform as a program director in 1996 and has served in a range of roles throughout his time at NSF.

AERA Calls
Call for Prospective Nominees for 2018 AERA-wide Elections - Deadline Extended: September 14 Call for Prospective Nominees for 2018 SIG Executive Committee Elections - Deadline: September 14 Call for Education Research Conference Proposals - Deadline: September 12 Call for Dissertation and Research Grant Applications - Deadline Extended: September 15 Call for AERA Awards Nominations - Deadline for Outstanding Book Award: October 25 \| Deadline for All Other Awards: November 2 Call for 2018-19 AERA Congressional Fellowship Applications - Deadline: December 15

Beyond AERA
National Science Board Opens Call for Nominations for Board Members National Science Foundation Accepting Proposals for SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships AAAS and AAU to Hold Sept. 6 Webinar on Golden Goose Award and Celebrating Science Through Storytelling Rockefeller University to Livestream Sept. 6 “Science, Journalism, and Democracy: Grappling with a New Reality” Conference National Academy of Sciences to Hold “Science of Science Communication” Colloquium New Data on U.S. Public Schools from the National Teacher and Principal Survey

AERA in the News
Recent media coverage of AERA and AERA-published research
Minority Students Still Missing Out on Special Education, New Analysis Says Education Week, August 28 Many worry that students of color are too often identified as disabled. Is the real problem the opposite? Chalkbeat, August 27 The Do’s and Don’ts of Covering Education Research Education Writers Association "The Educated Reporter," August 25 A textbook dilemma: Digital or paper? The Hechinger Report, August 23 If at First Your Study Succeeds, Try, Try Again, Education Research Agency Says Education Week, August 10 America has never had a merit-based system for college attendance The Hechinger Report, August 8 More AERA in the News
Video of the Month: AERA Centennial Lecture - The Opportunities and Challenges of Early Child Care and Education



AERA Highlights is published by the American Educational Research Association monthly to inform members and others interested in education research about the latest news and developments in AERA and in the field. Editor: Felice J. Levine Managing Editors: Tony Pals and John Neikirk Contributors: Juliane Baron, Jonathan Fera, McKinley Gillespie, Sylvie Nguyen-Fawley, David Presgraves, Anna Rappoport, Christy Talbot, and Martha Yager