American Educational Research Association

Reporters' Resource

For experts on all topics in education, education resources and pertinent findings, contact AERA Communications and Outreach at (202) 238-3200.
Helaine Patterson, ext. 235
Lucy Cunningham, ext. 234

General Information
American Educational Research Association
1430 K Street, NW, Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20005
http://www.aera.net/

Mission
AERA, a national research society, strives to advance knowledge about education, to encourage scholarly inquiry related to education, and to promote the use of research to improve education and serve the public good.

Founded
1916 to strengthen education through research.

Members
Approximately 25,000 educational researchers in the United States and abroad, including college and university professors, leaders in school systems, federal, state and local agencies, foundations and the private sector.

Divisions
Each of AERA’s 12 Divisions focuses on a substantive professional area. Divisions include Administration, Organization and Leadership (A), Curriculum Studies (B), Learning and Instruction (C), Measurement and Research Methodology (D), Counseling and Human Development (E), History and Historiography (F), Social Context of Education (G), Research, Evaluation, and Assessment in Schools (H), Education in the Professions (I), Postsecondary Education (J), Teaching and Teacher Education (K), and Educational Policy and Politics (L).

Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
More than 160 topics, ranging from literacy to technology in the classroom, command AERA members' attention through SIGs.

Publications
AERA publishes peer-reviewed journals, including the Educational Researcher (available free online); American Educational Research Journal; Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis; Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics; Review of Educational Research; and an annual Review of Research in Education. The Association also publishes important books, such as Studying Teacher Education: The Report of the AERA Panel on Research and Teacher Education, BLACK EDUCATION: A Transformative Research and Action Agenda for the New Century; the Handbook of Research on Teaching; Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (the latter is a joint publication with the American Psychological Association and National Council on Measurement in Education); Handbook of Complementary Methods in Education Research and Estimating Causal Effects.

Leadership
Kris D. Gutierrez, AERA President
Professor of Education, Provost's Chair, University of Colorado-Boulder
Felice J. Levine, AERA Executive Director

Annual Meetings
2011, Friday, April 8 – Tuesday, April 12, New Orleans
Some 13,000 educational researchers attend, and 1,800 scholarly papers, posters, and roundtables are presented.