2017

• From Middle School to Middle Adulthood: Education and the Social Mobility of the Immigrant Second Generation in an Age of Inequality
  Ruben G. Rumbaut, University of California, Irvine
  2017 Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture
• Let the Great Brown River Smile." Liberating Frames and Educational Discourses: On View, Voice, and Visibility
  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Harvard University
  2017 AERA Distinguished Lecture

2016

• Increasing the Relevance of Education Research: Building a Place-Based Agenda for Obtaining Equity and Excellence
  Warren Simmons, Fellow and Former Executive Director, Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
  2016 Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture
• Designing the "New Accountability": How Public Scholars Can Contribute to a Productive Policy Framework for Education
  Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emerita, Stanford University
  2016 AERA Distinguished Lecture

2015

• Who Is My Neighbor? The Geography of Opportunity in Ferguson and Beyond
  William F. Tate, AERA 2008 Past President, Washington University in St. Louis
  2015 Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture
• College in Prison: A Cause in Need of Advocacy Research
  Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Bard College
  2015 AERA Distinguished Lecture

2014

• Rigor and Realism: Doing Educational Science in the Real World
  Catherine E. Snow, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education, Harvard University
  2014 Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture
• Improving: Joining Improvement Science to Networked Communities
  Anthony Bryk, President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
  2014 AERA Distinguished Lecture

2013

• Diversity ≠ Inclusion
  Marta Tienda, Princeton University
  2013 Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture
• The Future of American Democracy
  Pedro A. Noguera, New York University
  2013 AERA Distinguished Lecture

2012

• Resegregating American Education: The Patterns, Old Issues, New Twists 

  William T. Trent, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  2012 Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture

• Hands Back, Hands Forward: Transforming Indigenous Education 
  Jo-ann Archibald (The University of British Columbia)
  2012 AERA Distinguished Lecture

2011

• Toward an Interdisciplinary Understanding of Educational Inequity and Difference: The Case of the Racialization of Ability
  Alfredo J. Artiles, Arizona State University
  2011 Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture

• Generalizing Across Borders: Policy and the Limits of Educational Science
  Allan A. J. Luke, Queensland University of Technology
  2011 AERA Distinguished Lecture

• 21st-Century Strategies for Youth Resiliency: Unacknowledged Challenges and Opportunities for Research, Training, and Practice 
  Margaret Beale Spencer, University of Chicago
  2010 Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture 
• What's Culture Got to Do With It? Educational Research as a Necessarily Interdisciplinary Enterprise 
  Michael Cole, University of California-San Diego
  2010 AERA Distinguished Lecture 
• What Kind of Change Can We Believe In? Toward an Equitable System of Good Schools 
  Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford University
  2010 Distinguished Contributions to Education Research Award (2009) Lecture

• Nested Learning Systems for the Thinking Curriculum
  Lauren B. Resnick, University of Pittsburgh
  2009 Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture
• Causes and Consequences of Cognitive functioning Across the Life Course
  Robert M. Hauser, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  2009 AERA Distinguished Lecture
• An Educational Psychology Success Story: Social Interdependence Theory and Cooperative Learning
  David W. Johnson, University of Minnesota
  2009 Distinguished Contributions to Education Research Award (2008) Lecture

• The Centrality of Culture to the Scientific Study of Learning and Development: How an Eco-Cultural Framework in Educational Research Facilitates Civic Responsibility
  Carol D. Lee, Northwestern University
  2008 Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture
• The Economic Payoff to Educational Justice
  Henry M. Levin, Teachers College, Columbia University
  2008 AERA Distinguished Lecture

• The Case for Ed Schools, and the Challenge
  Deborah Loewenberg Ball, University of Michigan
  2007 Dewitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Distinguished Lecture
• How Shall We Study The Cause and Effects of Classroom Teaching?
  Stephen W. Raudenbush, University of Chicago
  2007 Distinguished Contributions to Education Research Award (2006) Lecture 
• Race-Conscious Student Assignment Policies and the 14th Amendment: An Historical Perspective
  James D. Anderson, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
  2007 AERA Distinguished Lecture - James Anderson

2006

• Securing the Right to Learn: Policy and Practice for Powerful Teaching and Learning
  Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford University
  2006 Dewitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Distinguished Lecture — Presidential Session (30.010)
• Time Present and Time Past
  Donna E. Shalala, University of Miami
  2006 AERA Distinguished Lecture — Presidential Session (43.010)
• Educational "Opportunity" is the Highest Civil Rights Priority: So, What Should Researchers and Lawyers Do About it?
  Christopher Edley, Jr., University of California, Berkeley
  2006 Presidential Invited Address — Presidential Session (63.011)
• 2006 Annual Meeting AERA Awards Presentation and Presidential Address 
  Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin-Madison 
  From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Schools