A Sampling of Other Key Sessions
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Thursday, April 16
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And We Are Still Not Saved (Redux): Critical Race Theory in Education 20 Years Later
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Thursday April 16, 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand CDEF
Session will also be live-streamed
This session will consider the contribution critical race theory (CRT) has made to educational scholarship and examine the progress made in terms of the field’s understanding of racial inequity in education since CRT was first introduced to the field.
This session aims to:
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commemorate the 20th anniversary of CRT in education;
- provide examples by both new and established scholars of current work on CRT in education; and
- open a space for the exploration of next steps with regard to CRT in education.
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Chairs:
Adrienne D. Dixson
Celia Rousseau Anderson
Jamel K. Donnor
Discussant:
Gloria J. Ladson-Billings
Participants:
Adrienne D. Dixson
Celia Rousseau Anderson
Jamel K. Donnor
Nicola Rollock
Paul Warmington
Rema Ella Reynolds
Sonya Aleman
Enrique Aleman
Aparecida de Jesus Ferreira
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Toward Justice on Campus: Confronting a Culture of Sexual Violence
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Thursday April 16, 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Hyatt, West Tower - Gold Level - Regency D
This panel addresses higher education policies and politics regarding sexual violence on college campuses, highlighting research about the extent and effects of sexual assault with the intent of enhancing dialogue between policy makers and college administrators regarding responsible and effective ways to address this critical concern.
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Chair:
Karen L. Graces
Discussant:
Laurel Kennedy
Participants:
Linda M. Perkins
Christopher Krebs
Stephanie Atella
Rabia Khan Harvey
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Toward What Justice? Describing Diverse Dreams of Justice in Education
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Thursday April 16, 2:15 to 3:45 p.m.
Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand CDEF
Session will also be live-streamed
This session brings together compelling scholars within diverse intellectual traditions in educational research to discuss corresponding and sometimes competing definitions of justice. Each panelist will respond to a set of questions designed to reveal the salient points of convergence and difference between Indigenous studies, critical disabilities studies, critical race studies, immigration and border studies, and queer studies in education.
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Chairs:
Eve Tuck
K. Wayne Yang
Discussants:
Kris D. Gutiérrez
Linda T. Smith
Participants:
Lisa Patel
Nirmala Erevelles
Jen Jack Gieseking
Sandy M. Grande
Michael J. Dumas
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Friday, April 17
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Challenging the Discourse on Latinas/os in Community Colleges
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Friday April 17, 8:15 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
Swissotel, Event Centre First Level - Zurich E
The purpose of this panel is to bring together scholars whose work challenges current discourse surrounding the experiences of Latino students in community colleges. Panelists’ work center on topics of access, enrollment, experiences, and success, reframing questions and interrogating them in ways that advance research and offer different lenses through which we understand Latino community college outcomes.
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Chair:
Daniel Gilbert Solorzano
Discussant:
Anne-Marie Nunez
Participants:
Desiree Danielle Zerquera
Nancy Acevedo-Gil
Deryl Keith Hatch
Adriana Ruiz Alvarado
Jacob P.K. Gross
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A Giant Step Toward Justice in Conducting Education Research and Praxis: The Call for Integrated Study and Research Teams - Interactive Town Hall Session
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Friday April 17, 10:35 a.m. to 12:05 p.m.
Hyatt, West Tower - Gold Level - Regency C
The country’s changing demographics show great need for cross -/inter-cultural communication. Graduate students do not usually participate or conduct research using a cross-/inter-cultural focus that takes into account multiple groups’ perspectives. The aim of this presidential session is to engage in discussions that will lead to an increase in cross-/intercultural research in education and the social sciences.
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Chairs:
Carl A. Grant
Anthony L. Brown
Sherick A. Hughes
Alexandra Allweiss
Participants:
Angela Valenzuela
Vivian L. Gadsden
Michelle Fine
Christine E. Sleeter
Catherine Savage
William F. Tate
Kevin Kumashiro
Eve Tuck
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Interest in Mathematics and Science Learning: A New AERA Publication
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Friday April 17, 10:35 a.m. to 12:05 p.m.
Hyatt, West Tower - Gold Level - Toronto
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Chair:
Gilberto Q. Conchas
Participants:
K. Ann Renninger
Martina Nieswandt
Suzanne Hidi
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The State of the National Center for Education Statistics
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Friday April 17, 12:25 to 1:55 p.m.
Hyatt, West Tower - Gold Level - Toronto
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Chair:
George W. Bohrnstedt
Speaker:
Peggy G. Carr
Discussants:
William H. Schmidt
Jane Hannaway
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College in Prison: A Necessity in Moving “Toward Justice”
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Friday April 17, 12:25 to 1:55 p.m.
Hyatt, West Tower - Gold Level - Regency D
Since the passage of the 1994 Omnibus Crime Bill—which stripped prisoners of eligibility for Pell Grants— almost every college-in-prison program has closed its doors. In this session, speakers will describe the costs and benefits of college in prison, highlighting their experience teaching in prisons and working with formerly released prisoners.
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Chair:
Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
Discussant:
Craig Wilder
Participants:
Daniel Karpowitz
Jed B. Tucker
Rebecca Ginsburg
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From Classrooms to Outer Space via Public Policies: Renowned Intellectuals and Leaders Articulate Opportunities and Challenges
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Friday April 17, 12:25 to 1:55 p.m.
Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand CDEF
Session will also be live-streamed
Select demographic groups—racial minorities, women, and religious minorities—are consistently underrepresented in the STEM professions in both the U.S. and England. This session explores modes to increase representation. Each participant will present aspects of their work on education and science research and public policy.
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Chair:
Beverly Lindsay
Participants:
James Gates
Shirley Malcom
Michael Jonathan Reiss
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Perspectives on Replication in Education Research
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Friday April 17, 12:25 p.m. to 1:55 p.m.
Hyatt, West Tower - Gold Level - Regency AB
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Chair:
Rebecca A. Maynard
Discussant:
Larry V. Hedges
Participant:
Matthew C. Makel
Jonathan A. Plucker
Therese D. Pigott
Greg Duncan
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Closing the Information Gap: Best Strategies for Connecting Education Research to Policy Makers and the Public
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Friday April 17, 2:15 to 3:45 p.m.
Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Columbus AB
This session will bring together three sets of stakeholders— those who produce education research, those who use it, and those who know how to communicate about it—to discuss mutual challenges they and their colleagues face in raising the visibility of education research and explore strategies that maximize the usefulness, application, and communication of education research.
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Chair:
Camilla P. Benbow
Participants:
Sara Goldrick-Rab
Claudio Sanchez
Brian Baird
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Socializing Intelligence Through Academic Talk and Dialogue: A New AERA Publication
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Friday April 17, 2:15 to 3:45 p.m.
Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Columbus CD
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Chair:
Gilberto Q. Conchas
Discussant:
Kris D. Gutiérrez
Participants:
Lauren B. Resnick
Christa S.C. Asterhan
Sherice Clarke
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Advocacy for Federal Research Support: Making the Case
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Friday April 17, 4:05 to 5:35 p.m.
Hyatt, West Tower - Gold Level - Toronto
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Chair:
Felice J. Levine
Participants:
Juliane Baron
Wendy Naus
Angela Sharpe
Former Rep. Brian Baird
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Rethinking Knowledge in the Context of Our Contemporary Crisis
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Friday April 17, 4:05 to 6:05 p.m.
Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand CDEF
Drawing on their experiences in the US, South America, Europe, Africa and the Caribbean, four scholars will discuss various epistemological perspectives –epistemologies of the South, an Afrocentric Critical orientation; the necessity of re-thinking knowledge and what it means to be human—in the context of our contemporary social and educational crises.
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Chair:
Joyce E. King
Discussant:
Petronilha Beatriz Goncalves e Silva
Participants:
Sylvia Wynter
Molefi Kete Asante
Jason Ambroise
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
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"We All We Got." Reclaiming Our Humanity With Genealogy Research, Reducing Gang Violence With Neighborhood Basketball: Chicago Community Perspectives on Youth Vulnerability in the Context of Extreme Impoverishment
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Friday April 17, 4:05 to 5:35 p.m.
Hyatt, West Tower - Gold Level, Regency D
Chicago natives, internationally recognized genealogist, Tony Burroughs, founder of the Center for Black Genealogy, and NBA All-Star Isiah Thomas, will present practical interventions with youth—the power of community-family genealogical research and a youth basketball program that reduces gang violence.
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Chair:
Iva E Carruthers
Discussant:
Jabari Mahiri
Participants:
Tony Burroughs
Isiah Thomas
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What Has Happened to African American Young Adult Literature in the Digital Age?
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Friday April 17, 4:05 to 6:05 p.m.
Hyatt, West Tower - Gold Level, Acapulco
This session explores the invisibility and politics of African American youth literature. Presenters will discuss issues surrounding the dearth of literature written for the African American youth populations, as well as provide salient examples of current literature and future directions for this reading population.
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Chair:
Beverly M. Gordon
Discussant:
Carmen Kynard
Participants:
Gregory Walker
Alfred W. Tatum
Larette Henderson
Ayoko Chenzira
Ha J |
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Invited Address: U.S. Representative Bobby Scott
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Friday April 17, 7 to 8 p.m.
Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand EF
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Rep. Bobby Scott
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Speaker:
Rep. Bobby Scott
Chair:
Joyce E. King
Discussants:
Linda Darling-Hammond
Kris D. Gutiérrez
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Saturday, April 18
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AERA Education Research to Performance Youth Research Festival
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Part 1: Celebrating the DuBois-Greene Living Museum
Saturday April 18, 8:15 to 9:45 a.m.
Hyatt, West Tower - Green Level - Crystal B
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Part 2. Critical Reflections on Community Research in Times of Widening Inequalities: A Roundtable Session
Saturday April 18, 10:35 a.m. to 12:35 p.m.
Hyatt, West Tower - Green Level - Crystal B
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Participants in the AERA Education Research-to-Performance Youth Apprentice Program will exhibit their developing and ongoing work during a Research Festival at the Annual Meeting. Under the guidance of senior education researchers, high school and undergraduate students will participate in a series of activities—performances, exhibits, and paper and poster presentations—designed to enhance their appreciation of education research, deepen their engagement in it, and inspire them to recognize just how powerful and persuasive knowledge production can be.
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Chairs:
Joyce E. King
Michelle Fine
George L. Wimberly
Participants:
A'isha Kareem
Amanda Klonsky
Anne M. Galletta
Annette M. Henry
Ashley Patterson
Ben R. Kirshner
Brian A. Williams
Cirecie West-Olatunji
David O. Stovall
Erica R. Meiners
Isabel J. Morales
Joseph Gardner
Kristen L. Buras
Laurence Tan
Limarys Caraballo
Lisa (Leigh) Patel
Maddy Fox
Maria Elena Torre
Mark R. Warren
Monique Antoinette Guishard
Motlalepule Ruth Mampane
Stafford Hood
Venus E. Evans-Winters
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Social and Emotional Learning Research: 20 Years and Beyond
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Saturday April 18, 8:15 to 9:45 a.m.
Hyatt, West Tower - Gold Level - Toronto
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Chair:
David M. Osher
Discussants:
Tony Smith
Paul Cruz
Participants:
Roger P. Weissberg
Stephanie Margaret Jones
Robert Jagers
Mao Yaqing
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FERPA in Complex Times: Aligning Privacy, Confidentiality, and Research Use
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Saturday April 18, 10:35 a.m. to 12:05 p.m.
Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Columbus AB
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Chair:
Felice J. Levine
Participants:
Paige Kowalski
Kathleen Styles
Jack Buckley
David Figlio
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Fear of Failure Prevents Students From Learning: Perspectives From School Leaders
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Saturday April 18, 10:35 a.m. to 12:05 p.m.
Hyatt, West Tower - Gold Level - Regency C
This session will focus on recent research on sources of motivation, suggesting that students’ perceptions and understanding of the requirements of intellectual success influences their motivation to learn and their ability to persist through challenging problems in schools.
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Chair:
Xiaodong Lin
Participants:
Janice Jackson
Danella Carter
Lily Din Woo
Robin Walker
Carol Dweck
Sian Bellock
Zhong-Ying Shi
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Opportunities for Federal Research Funding: Institute of Education Sciences, National Science Foundation, and National Institutes of Health
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Saturday April 18, 10:35 a.m. to 12:35 p.m.
Hyatt, West Tower - Gold Level - Toronto
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Chair:
Juliane Baron
Participant:
Allen Ruby
James A. Griffin
Margret A. Hjalmarson
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Learning While Black: Perspectives on Supporting the Culture and Heritage of Schooling for African American Students
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Saturday April 18, 10:35 a.m. to 12:05 p.m.
Hyatt, West Tower - Gold Level – Regency AB
This session will highlight the work of Dr. Edmund W. Gordon to demonstrate how high achieving academic programs and social policies, as related to funding, can sustain quality education for African American students. It will explore diverse epistemologies as they relate to notions of culture and heritage.
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Chairs:
Debra Watkins
Stephen D. Hancock
Discussant:
Arnetha F. Ball
Participants:
Edmund W. Gordon
Debra Watkins
Fred Blackwell |
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From the Coleman Report to Performance Metrics: Big Changes in the Nation's Research Policy
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Saturday April 18, 2:45 to 4:15 p.m
Hyatt, West Tower - Gold Level - Regency D
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Chair:
Felice J. Levine
Speaker:
Ken Prewitt
Discussant:
Deborah Loewenberg Ball
Adam Gamoran |
Sunday, April 19
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Bending the Arc Toward Justice: New Orleans, Black Education, and the National and International Struggle Against Market-Based Reform
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Sunday April 19, 8:15 to 10:15 a.m.
Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand CDEF
Session will also be live-streamed
Educators, students, and parents in New Orleans have articulated serious concerns about the effects of charter school reform on black communities. This session will address the question, whose interests have been served by market-based reform in urban communities? Participants will address the trend towards education privatization and collectively consider how these reforms have affected public schools and neighborhoods in cities nationwide.
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Chair:
Kristen L. Buras
Participants:
Michael W. Apple
Kristen L. Buras
V. P. Franklin
Pauline Lipman
Theresa Perry
Ibrahima Seck
David O. Stovall
Terrenda Corisa White
Kofi Lomotey
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Current Priorities and Opportunities at the Institute of Education Sciences
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Sunday April 19, 10:35 a.m. to 12:05 p.m.
Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level, Columbus AB
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Chair:
David H. Monk
Discussant:
Kris Gutiérrez
Participant:
Sue E. Betka
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The White House Initiatives on Educational Excellence for Diverse Groups
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Sunday April 19, 10:35 a.m. to 12:05 p.m.
Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand CDEF
Session will also be live-streamed
Panelists will focus on the role that their respective White House Initiatives play in shaping public policy for communities of color. A key part of the Initiatives’ mandate is to advise the President and U.S. Secretary of Education on issues related to the educational attainment of diverse groups and seek ways to increase student success through improved policies, practices, and allocation of resources.
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Chair:
Linda C. Tillman
Discussant:
James T. Minor
James E. Davis
Participants:
Patricia Whitefoot
James Pierpont Comer
Alfredo J. Artiles
Dee Jay Mailer
David Wilson
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Advancing Education Research at the National Science Foundation: Trends and Priorities
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Sunday April 19, 12:25 to 1:55 p.m.
Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Columbus CD
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Chair:
Deborah Loewenberg Ball
Participant:
Joan Ferrini-Mundy
Discussants:
Camilla P. Benbow
P. Karen Murphy
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Challenges and Promising Opportunities for NAEP in the Decades Ahead
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Sunday April 19, 12:25 to 1:55 p.m.
Hyatt, West Tower - Gold Level - Regency AB
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Chair:
Mark Schneider
Participants:
Terry Mazany
Christopher Edley, Jr.
Laura S. Hamilton
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Do Higher Ed Accountability Proposals Narrow Opportunity for Minority Students and Minority-Serving Institutions?
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Sunday April 19, 12:25 to 1:55 p.m.
Hyatt, West Tower - Gold Level - Acapulco
Students of color have not achieved equal opportunity for higher education and many of the institutions that serve them are struggling with economic and policy challenges. Some critics of the Obama Administration claim that recent accountability and financial aid policy changes would close the door to college for many deserving students. This session will feature new and original empirical studies that examine policy issues with the goal of avoiding unintended negative consequences.
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Chair and Discussant:
Gary A. Orfield
Participants:
Stella M. Flores
Sara Goldrick-Rab
Sylvia Hurtado
Anne-Marie Nunez
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Education for Social Transformation: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Radical Intellectual Tradition
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Sunday April 19, 12:25 to 1:55 p.m.
Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand CDEF
Session will also be live-streamed
This session will present W.E.B. Du Bois in historical context as a founding sociological researcher, a founder of the Pan African Movement and the NAACP, and a transformative educator in the radical black intellectual tradition. Film clips will be shown from the historic University of Pennsylvania conference honoring DuBois in 2012.
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Chair:
AERA President
Joyce E. King
Discussant:
Gloria J. Ladson-Billings
Participant:
Tufuku Zuberi |
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If Black Lives Matter, What Is to Be Done? Is There a Role for Research?
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Sunday April 19, 2:15 to 3:45 p.m.
Hyatt, West Tower - Gold Level - Regency C
An interdisciplinary panel of scholars, joined by the attorney for the family of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin, consider research , policy and education interventions to address institutionally-sanctioned state violence youth are experiencing in the U.S and globally.
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Chair:
Christopher Edley, Jr.
Participants:
Sandra Graham
Wayne Au
Daryl Parks
William Jelani Cobb
Discussants:
Mary Pattillo
Christopher Edley, Jr.
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LGBTQ Issues in Education: Advancing a Research Agenda: An AERA Publication
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Sunday April 19, 2:15 to 3:45 p.m.
Hyatt, West Tower - Gold Level - Acapulco
This session will be followed by a roundtable discussion from 4:05 to 5:35 p.m.
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Chairs:
William G. Tierney
Discussant:
Joseph P. Robinson-Cimpian
Participants:
George L. Wimberly
Kristen A. Renn
Madelaine Adelman
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Transforming Research: The Indigenous Struggle for Social, Cultural, and Economic Justice Within and Through Education
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Sunday April 19, 2:15 to 3:45 p.m.
Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand CDEF
Session will also be live-streamed
This presentation will look at the struggle to change educational outcomes for indigenous and disadvantaged communities. Of concern is the need to challenge the ongoing reproduction of high and disproportionate levels of learning underdevelopment and subsequent social and economic marginalization. In this presentation, strategies from the New Zealand context that have potential for wider applications will be shared, including the development of alternative schooling and higher education models.
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Chair:
Tanya L.M. Samu
Discussant:
Jonathan D. Jansen
Participant:
Graham Hingangaroa Smith
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Linking Our Struggles: Visioning a Different Future
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Sunday April 19, 4:05 to 6:05 p.m.
Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand CDEF
Session will also be live-streamed
In this session, Professor Charles Ogletree will moderate a fast-paced discussion among the panelists in an effort to illuminate the intersectionality of struggles for justice across diverse communities.
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Rep. Mike Honda |
Chair:
AERA President
Joyce E. King
Discussant:
Charles Ogletree
Participants:
Alan Parker
Robert Miller
Valerie Ooka Pang
Iva E Carruthers
Julian Vasquez Heilig
Cirecie West-Olatunji
Curtis Acosta
Stan Willis
Susan Goodwin
Jesse Hagopian
Malik Burnett
Mike Honda |
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Public Scholarship for Diverse Democracies: Making Education Research Matter
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Sunday April 19, 4:05 to 6:05 p.m.
Hyatt, West Tower - Gold Level - Regency C
Previewing the theme of the 2016 AERA Centennial Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., this participatory symposium will engage AERA members in defining the opportunities and challenges of situating education research as public scholarship that is accessible and useful to educators, policymakers, and the public working to strengthen increasingly diverse democracies.
AERA President-Elect Jeannie Oakes will share preliminary goals for the 2016 Annual Meeting program.
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Chair:
Kevin G. Welner
Discussant:
AERA President-Elect Jeannie Oakes
Participants:
Linda Darling-Hammond
Pedro A. Noguera
Michelle Renee
Frederick M. Hess |
Monday, April 20
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Justice Requires Informed Action: Fighting Anti-Intellectualism with Educational Research
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Monday April 20, 10:35 a.m. to 12:05 p.m.
Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand EF
Session will also be live-streamed
This session will address the assumption that research endeavors will be embraced in policy and instruction; however, it is often the flashiness of the message rather than the soundness of the evidence that is heard and acted upon. This session will discuss the two-fold challenge for those vested in the pursuit of justice through and in education.
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Chair:
Patricia A. Alexander
Participants:
W. James Popham
Gale M. Sinatra
Angela Valenzuela
Zeus Leonardo
Catherine A. Lugg
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Culture, Language, and the Politics of Forgetting: Beyond Restrictive Language Policies in Education
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Monday April 20, 12:25 to 1:55 p.m.
Hyatt, East Tower - Gold Level - Grand EF
Session will also be live-streamed
This session will critically examine the inextricable relations of power that exist between culture, class, and language within the context of classroom practices. Central to this discussion is unveiling the epistemicides that accompany practices of language in education and the need to embrace a decolonizing and emancipatory political project of schooling and society.
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Chair:
Ruben Donato
Discussant:
João Menelau Paraskeva
Participant:
Antonia Darder
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Preparation for Inclusive Education in the Era of High-Stakes Teacher Education Accountability: Mapping the Territory for New Directions in Theory and Practice
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Monday April 20, 2:15 to 3:45 p.m.
Hyatt, West Tower - Gold Level - Regency AB
This session will frame the work of inclusive education researchers in the current teacher education accountability context and address the significance this context when it comes to preparing teachers to work with students from historically marginalized groups, including students with disabilities.
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Chair:
Srikala Naraian
Discussant: Kimberly White-Smith
Presenters:
Dianne Ferguson
Marleen C. Pugach
Scot Danforth
Srikala Naraian
Sarah Schlessinger |