<em>AERA Highlights</em>

January 2018

AERA News
Research Policy and Funding News
AERA Q&A
AERA Calls
AERA Publications Calls
WERA Call
Beyond AERA
AERA in the News
Video of the Month

AERA News
AERA 2018 Election – Voting Opens February 12 On February 12, AERA will open the 2018 election with voting conducted by electronic ballot. Voting members will receive a personalized link by e-mail to access their ballot. All voting members are urged to exercise their right to vote.
William Trent, Linda Tuhiwai Smith Announced as Annual Meeting Speakers AERA President Deborah Loewenberg Ball has announced prominent scholars William Trent and Linda Tuhiwai Smith as major speakers at the 2018 Annual Meeting. The meeting will be held on April 13–17 in New York City.
AERA Member Wins Grawemeyer Award AERA member Sara Goldrick-Rab (Temple University) has been selected as the 2018 Grawemeyer Award in Education recipient by the University of Louisville.
AERA Annual Meeting to Feature Skill-Building Professional Development Training Courses The AERA Professional Development and Training Program is excited to offer more than 30 courses designed to enhance research skills and increase capacity during the 2018 AERA Annual Meeting in New York City.
AERA Partners on Count on Stats Campaign Promoting the Value of Data and Evidence Count on Stats, a campaign designed to raise awareness of the importance, reliability, and trustworthiness of the federal statistical system among the public, key stakeholders, and influencers of the system, was formally launched on January 30.
AERA Speaks Out on IES Director Confirmation, 2020 Census, and Budget Caps AERA has urged the chair and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions to quickly confirm Mark Schneider to be the next director of the Institute of Education Sciences.


Research Policy and Funding News
House Committee Holds Hearing on Evidence-Based Policymaking and Privacy for Students On January 30, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing on "Protecting Privacy, Promoting Policy: Evidence-Based Policymaking and the Future of Education."
Woodworth Appointed as NCES Commissioner President Donald Trump announced the appointment of James Lynn Woodworth to serve as Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on January 4. He will be serving as the first permanent NCES commissioner since 2014.
Revised Common Rule Implementation Delayed Until July 19 The federal agencies that are subject to the requirements of the Common Rule announced in the Federal Register on January 22 that the implementation of the updated regulations would be delayed until July 19.
Chief Statistician Issues Request for Information on Combining Data for Statistical and Research Purposes Chief Statistician of the United States Nancy Potok and the Office of Management and Budget’s Statistical and Science Policy Branch are working to establish priorities and coordinate research efforts across the federal statistical system.
National Science Board Releases 2018 Science and Engineering Indicators On January 18 the National Science Board, the presidentially appointed advisory body to the National Science Foundation, released the 2018 edition of its Science and Engineering Indicators.
IES Principal Investigators Gather for Annual Conference On January 9–10, the Institute of Education Sciences hosted its annual Principal Investigators Meeting for grants funded by the National Center for Education Research and the National Center for Special Education Research.
FY 2018 Funding Extended to February 8 After Three-Day Shutdown Final funding numbers for the 2018 fiscal year are still up in the air, as Congress passed a three-week continuing resolution (CR) following the expiration of the previous CR on January 19 and a three-day government shutdown.

AERA Q&A
AERA Q&A—NICHD’s Brett Miller Discusses How NICHD Supports Education Research Brett Miller is a program director at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), where he oversees literacy and related learning disabilities. Before joining NICHD, Miller was an associate research scientist at the Institute of Education Sciences.

AERA Calls
*Call for Nominations for 2018 AERA Brown* Lecture - Deadline: February 15, 2018 Call for AERA Education Research Conference Proposals - Deadline: March 8, 2018**

AERA Publications Calls
*Call for Applications and Nominations for Editorship of the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics* (Volumes 44-46) - Deadline: February 26, 2018 Call for Applications and Nominations for Editorship of American Educational Research Journal (Volumes 56-58) - Deadline: March 1, 2018 Call for Applications and Nominations for Editorship of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (Volumes 41-43) - Deadline: March 1, 2018 Call for Proposals for 2019 Review of Research in Education - Deadline: March 1, 2018** AERA Open "Special Topic" Calls for Papers: The Role of Place, Geography, and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in Educational Research - Deadline: February 1, 2018 Registered Reports - Deadline: March 1, 2018

WERA Call
WERA 2018 World Congress Call for Submissions - Deadline Extended: February 20, 2018 (AERA is a founding and active member of WERA)

Beyond AERA
Russell Sage Foundation/ William T. Grant Foundation Call for Proposals— Improving Education and Reducing Inequality in the United States: Obtaining New Insights from Population-Based Academic Performance Data – Deadline: March 1 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Call for Summer Program Scholarship Applications – Deadline: March 31 (Note: Support is possible for education research specifically in one category and applicable in other categories) NCES Releases Brief on Who Influences High School Students’ Education and Career Decisions New Report Examines Student Victimization at U.S. Public Schools NCES Releases New Data on Postsecondary Tuition, Fees and Degrees

AERA in the News
Recent media coverage of AERA and AERA-published research
Ed. Dept. Budget Could Combine Three Significant Research, Policy Programs Education Week, January 25 When a Field's Reputation Precedes It Inside Higher Ed, January 25 From band director to chief data cruncher: Trump's choice to lead U.S. education statistics agency raises eyebrows Science, January 12 Student Suicide Investigation; DeVos Proposes New Student Loan Rules NPR, January 6 More AERA in the News

Video of the Month: AERA 2017: Education Unbordered: Immigrant, Refugee, Detained, and Undocumented Children and Families


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, Sylvie Nguyen-Fawley, David Presgraves, Anna Rappoport, Christy Talbot, George Wimberly, and Martha Yager