Given by prominent scholars in the field, the AERA Distinguished Lecture and the AERA Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture are highlights of the AERA Annual Meeting, known for offering compelling insights and advancing innovation in the field.
2024
"Not Yet at Plessy": 70 Years Post-Brown
Gloria Ladson-Billings
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Disrupting Dominant Research Paradigms: A Collective Journey to Chicana/Latina Feminista Methodologies
Dolores Delgado Bernal |
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2023
Conducting Consequential Research in Challenging Times: Generative Change for Educational Equity
Arnetha Ball
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The Leadership they Deserve: Effective Black Principal Leadership for Black Students in Public Schools
Linda Tillman |
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2022
Contestations Over What We Should Teach: A Human Learning and Development Analysis
Carol D. Lee
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Education Reform Past and Present: Asking Equity Questions and Looking for Hope
Amanda Datnow |
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2021
The Inevitability of Racial Bias and Exclusion: Implications for Identity-Based Education and Practice
Sylvia Hurtado |
When We (Re)member, “Everything is Possible:” Black Women Teachers and the Spirit of Our Work
Cynthia B. Dillard |
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2019
My Critical Race Journey to Racial Microaggressions and Microaffirmations — 1969 to 2019
Daniel Gilbert Solorzano
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Educational Research and the Disruption of Racialized Distortions: Establishing a Wide-Angle View
Carla D. O'Connor
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2018
Interrogating Segregation, its Complexities and Consequences for Public Education
William Trent
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From Dream to Possibility to Reality - On Becoming and Being an Indigenous Educational Researcher
Linda Tuhiwai Smith
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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
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Let the Great Brown River Smile." Liberating Frames and Educational Discourses: On View, Voice, and Visibility
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
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2016
Designing the "New Accountability": How Public Scholars Can Contribute to a Productive Policy Framework for Education
Linda Darling-Hammond
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Increasing the Relevance of Education Research: Building a Place-Based Agenda for Obtaining Equity and Excellence
Warren Simmons |
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2015
College in Prison: A Cause in Need of Advocacy Research
Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
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Who Is My Neighbor? The Geography of Opportunity in Ferguson and Beyond
William F. Tate |
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2014
Improving: Joining Improvement Science to Networked Communities
Anthony Bryk
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Rigor and Realism: Doing Educational Science in the Real World
Catherine E. Snow |
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2013
The Future of American Democracy
Pedro A. Noguera
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Diversity ≠ Inclusion
Marta Tienda
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2012
Hands Back, Hands Forward: Transforming Indigenous Education
Jo-ann Archibald
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Resegregating American Education: The Patterns, Old Issues, New Twists
William T. Trent
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