2018 Award Recipient
Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román University of Pennsylvania
The AERA Council established this award for the best book-length publication in educational research and development. To be considered for the Award, a book must be concerned with the improvement of the educational process through research or scholarly inquiry, must have a research base, and must have a copyright date of the past two years in the year in which the award is to be given.
A book may be nominated by the author or by another scholar. The book may have been published anywhere in the world but must be available in English. No edited volumes are considered for the award.
2017 - Roberto G. Gonzales 2016 - Diana E. Hess & Paula McAvoy 2015 - David P. Baker 2014 - David L. Kirp 2013 - Christopher P. Loss 2012 - Valerie Kinloch 2011 - Richard R. Valencia 2010 - Jeffrey R. Henig - Spin Cycle: How Research Is Used in Policy Debates: The Case of Charter Schools 2009 - Paul Attewell & David E. Lavin - Passing the Torch: Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Generations? 2008 - C. J. Pascoe - Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School 2007 - Rami Benbenishty & Ron Avi Astor - School Violence in Context 2006 - William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil & Eugene M. Tobin -Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education 2005 - Mica Pollock - Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School, and Frederick D. Erickson -Talk and Social Theory 2004 - Amy J. Binder - Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools 2003 - No award made 2002 - Robin Alexander - Culture & Pedagogy 2001 - Jeannie Oakes, Karen Hunter Qurtz, Steve Ryan and Martin Lipton - Becoming Good American Schools 2000 - Angela Valenzuela -Subtractive Schooling: U.S. Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring 1999 - John M. Willinsky - Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire's End 1998 - Linda Darling-Hammond -The Right to Learn 1997 - L. Scott Miller - An American Imperative 1996 - David C. Berliner & Bruce J. Biddle - The Manufactured Crisis 1995 - Jeffrey Mirel - The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System: Detroit 1970-1981 1994 - No Award Given 1993 - Joan DelFattore & Jonathan Kozol 1992 - David B. Tyack, Elizabeth Hansot, Teun A. Van Dijk & Idit Harel 1991 - Stephen Brint & Jerome Karabel 1990 - James D. Anderson 1989 - Burton R. Clark & David F. Labaree 1988 - James C. Coleman & Thomas Hoffer 1987 - Robert J. Sternberg 1986 - David John Hogan 1985 - John I. Goodlad 1984 - Sarah Lawrence-Lightfoot, Teun A. Van Dijk & Walter Kintsch 1983 - Stephen Jay Gould & CarolGilligan