In This Issue:
Special Event: Dr. Jill Biden
Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture
The Fisher Case and Diversity of Higher Education
#BlackGirlsMatter
Ed-Talks: Broadening Conceptions of Learning
Career Threats and Opportunities
Ed-Talks: Increasing the Education and Life Chances for the New American Majority
Schools, Rules, and Socialization Effects for Students
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Today's Highlights
Special Event: Dr. Jill Biden
Operation Educate the Educators: Recognizing and Supporting Military-Connected Students Through University-Based Research, Community Partnerships, and Teacher Education Programs
1:30 to 2:30 p.m., Convention Center, Level Three, Ballroom C
Session hashtag: #AERAJillBiden
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Dr. Jill Biden, Second Lady of the United States, lifelong educator, and military mom will speak about her work with Operation Educate the Educators as part of her Joining Forces initiative. Dr. Biden will be joined in a question and answer period by Ron Avi Astor (University of Southern California), Catherine Bradshaw (University of Virginia), and Mary Keller (Military Child Education Coalition). It is estimated that over 4 million students in the U.S. have parents who have served in the military since 9-11. Despite multiple school moves and parental deployment, military- and veteran-connected students show remarkable resilience. Educational research suggests that schools can better serve military- and veteran-connected students. National policy, new research funding, and efforts in over 100 universities are now underway to increase the number of university schools of education that include materials, research, and partnerships focused on students from military and veteran families. Dr. Biden’s Operation Educate the Educators program aims to increase awareness of this group among university schools of education.
To learn more about military-connected student education issues and to request more information on how to include military- and veteran-connected students in your work, click here.
Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture: Warren Simmons, Fellow and Former Executive Director, Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Increasing the Relevance of Education Research: Building a Place-Based Agenda for Obtaining Equity and Excellence
11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m., Convention Center, Level Three, Ballroom C
Session hashtag: #AERAWallace
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The Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture will be given by Warren Simmons, former executive director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. He is currently Senior Fellow and team-teaches a course in urban systems and structure in Brown University’s Urban Education Policy master’s program.
The Fisher Case and Diversity in Higher Education: The Pending Decision and Beyond
Liliana M. Garces
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Gary A. Orfield
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4:30 to 6:00 p.m., Convention Center, Level Two, Room 204 C
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In this session, Liliana M. Garces (The Pennsylvania State University – University Park), William Kidder (University of California – Riverside), Gary A. Orfield (University of California – Los Angeles), and Shirley Malcom (American Association for the Advancement of Science) will discuss the U.S. Supreme Court’s reconsideration of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the implications of the pending decision, and the vital importance of diversity in higher education.
#BlackGirlsMatter: Public Scholarship Engaging with the Race/Gender Interaction in Schools
10:00 to 11:30 a.m., Convention Center, Level Three, Ballroom C
Session Hashtag: #AERABlackGirlsMatter
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This session seeks to open up new avenues of scholarship focused on the promises and perils Black girls and women encounter in PK – 20 systems. The session will also explore how such scholarship could inform policy-based solutions to improve the academic success and life chances of Black girls and women. Session participants include Bettina L. Love (University of Georgia – Athens), Lori Patton Davis (Indiana University – IUPUI), Adrienne Dixson (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), and Melissa Harris Perry (Wake Forest University).
Ed-Talks: Broadening Conceptions of Learning
10:00 to 11:30 a.m., Convention Center, Level Two, Room 207 B
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This series of talks seek to explain how students actually learn and how to apply this knowledge to effective teaching methods. The talks will explain why policy and practice need to be undergirded by robust knowledge of how people learn across contexts and life activities, and how identity, culture, and history are implicated. Participants include Michelene Chi (Arizona State University), Kris Gutierrez (University of California - Berkeley), Young-Suk Kim (Florida State University), and Barbara Rogoff (University of California - Santa Cruz). Commentators include Emily Hanford (American RadioWorks) and Raymond C. Hart (Council of the Great City Schools).
Career Threats and Opportunities: What Is the Role of Social Media in Public Scholarship?
Researchers will discuss social media approaches to public scholarship that can democratize education knowledge. Panelists will focus on how social media can advance academic scholarship discussions but also may pose threats to academic careers, particularly for junior scholars. Questions from audience-generated social media will be discussed by the panelists, as both conference participants and streaming viewers from across the nation and world contribute comments and questions in advance and in real-time via Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, using the hashtag #AERAPubScholar. Participants include Diane Ravitch (New York University), Sara Goldrick-Rab (University of Wisconsin Madison), Frederick M. Hess (American Enterprise Institute), and Nolan L. Cabrera (The University of Arizona).
Ed-Talks: Increasing the Education and Life Chances for the New American Majority
4:30 to 6:00 p.m., Convention Center, Level Three, Room 207 B
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These talks highlight the importance of intersections among families, schools, and communities in student development, how teaching and schooling contribute to learning in and out of school, and how educational and social policies can combine to support learning, development, and wellbeing across different communities. The talks will examine the obstacles students from varying communities face, as well as address how to harness community relationships to help overcome barriers. Participants Vivian L. Gadsden (University of Pennsylvania), Barbara Schneider (Michigan State University), and Laura W. Perna (University of Pennsylvania). Commentators include Dan Berrett (Chronicle of Higher Education) and Brenda Calderon (National Council of La Raza).
Schools, Rules, and Socialization Effects for Students: A Research Agenda
10:00 to 11:30 a.m., Convention Center, Level Two, Room 204 B
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This session emanates from an AERA/AIR research conference on the effects of school socialization, school discipline, and implicit and explicit rules and norms on children’s attitudes and learned behaviors. The conference convened approximately 25 scholars from a range of disciplines to focus on the current state of knowledge in these areas, different theoretical and methodological approaches used to address these topics, critical gaps in the research, and ways in which promising research from one domain might inform research in another. A forthcoming manuscript based on the conference will outline a broader empirical and interdisciplinary research agenda that can be used to provide direction and focus for future research. Participants will provide observations from the vantage of their research expertise, address how diverse research agendas add to our collective understanding, and engage in dialogue with session attendees. Participants include Allison Dymnicki (American Institutes for Research), Kathryn R. Wentzel (University of Maryland), Russell J. Skiba (Indiana University), Ellen Cohn (University of New Hampshire), and Dorothy L. Espelage (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign).
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