Each year, the AERA President discusses the inspiration for and aims of the chosen theme for their respective year's AERA Annual Meeting.
2024
Tyrone C. Howard
"Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities: A Call to Action"
2023
Rich Milner
"Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth"
2022
Na’ilah Suad Nasir
"Cultivating Equitable Education Systems for the 21st Century"
2020
Vanessa Siddle Walker
"The Power and Possibilities for the Public Good When Researchers and Organizational Stakeholders Collaborate"
2019
Amy Stuart Wells
"Leveraging Education Research in a "Post-Truth" Era: Multimodal Narratives to Democratize Evidence"
2018
Deborah Loewenberg Ball
"The Dreams, Possibilities, and Necessity of Public Education"
2016
Jeannie Oakes
"Public Scholarship to Educate Diverse Democracies"
2015
Joyce King
"Toward Justice: Culture, Language, and Heritage in Education Research and Praxis"
2014
Barbara Schneider and Mark Berends
"The Power of Education Research for Innovation in Practice and Policy"