2019 Recipient
Robert Slavin Johns Hopkins University
Robert Slavin is director of the Center for Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University and is the chairman of the Success for All Foundation. He is the author or co-author of more than 350 articles and book chapters and 26 books. His research has addressed many important and timely topics in education including cooperative learning, comprehensive school reform, ability grouping, school and classroom organization, desegregation, mainstreaming, research review and evidence-based reform.
This award is given to honor a meritorious contributor to educational research; its purpose is to publicize, motivate, encourage, and suggest models for educational research at its best.
From 1964 through 1973 the award was given jointly with Phi Delta Kappa (PDK) and was known as the AERA-PDK Awards. After 1974 AERA took sole responsibility for making the selection.
2018 - Gloria J. Ladson-Billings 2017 - Henry M. Levin 2016 - Michelene T. H. Chi 2015 - Andrew C. Porter 2014 - Douglas Fuchs 2014 - Lynn S. Fuchs 2014 - Adam Gamoran 2013 - Alan H. Schoenfeld 2012 - Guadalupe Valdés 2011 - Catherine Snow 2010 - P. David Pearson 2009 - Linda Darling-Hammond 2008 - David Wolcott Johnson 2007 - Milbrey Wallin McLaughlin 2006 - Stephen W. Raudenbush 2005 - Gene V. Glass 2004 - Lorrie A. Shepard 2003 - Anthony S. Bryk 2002 - Shirley Brice Heath 2001 - Robert LeVine 2000 - Edmund Gordon 1999 - David K. Cohen 1998 - John Ogbu 1997 - Robert Linn 1996 - David C. Berliner 1995 - Maxine Greene 1994 - Richard C. Anderson 1993 - John I. Goodlad 1992 - David Tyack 1991 - Ann L. Brown 1990 - Lauren Resnick 1989 - Lee S. Shulman 1988 - N. L. Gage 1987 - Michael Cole 1986 - Courtney B. Cazden 1985 - Jerome S. Bruner 1984 - Eleanor Maccoby 1983 - Anne Anastasi 1982 - Jeanne S. Chall 1981 - Donald T. Campbell 1980 - Julian C. Stanley 1979 - John Bissell Carroll 1978 - B. F. Skinner 1977 - Lee J. Cronbach 1976 - Robert Glaser 1975 - Urie Bronfenbrenner 1974 - James S. Coleman 1973 - Robert J. Havighurst 1972 - Robert M. Gagne 1971 - Patrick Suppes 1970 - Benjamin S. Bloom 1969 - Lawrence A. Cremin 1968 - Jean Piaget & Barbel Inhelder 1967 - E. F. Lindquist 1966 - T. R. McConnell 1965 - Ralph W. Tyler 1964 - Arthur I. Gates