On behalf of AERA President Na’ilah Suad Nasir and 2022 Annual Meeting Program Co-Chairs Tryphenia Peele-Eady and Elizabeth Tipton, we are pleased to invite you to contribute ideas for the 2022 AERA Annual Meeting Presidential Program. Read more

New research finds that college students at risk of failing academically showed significant improvement in executive functioning after interacting with therapy dogs one hour a week for a month. Read more

Edmund W. Gordon, a distinguished education researcher renowned for his pioneering scholarship on the gaps in education opportunities and supports for children of color and low-income students, was named AERA honorary president. Read more

Taught by experts Odis Johnson Jr. (Johns Hopkins University), Ezekiel Dixon-Román (University of Pennsylvania), and Ebony McGee (Vanderbilt University), the workshop will focus on using quantitative, computational, and mixed methods to critically engage with and address the conditions, forces, and processes of structural racism and oppression. Read more

The AERA-NSF Grants Program (Dissertation and Research Grants) is accepting applications. The Program provides small grants and training for researchers who conduct studies of education policy and practice using quantitative methods and including the analysis of data from the large-scale data sets sponsored by National Center for Education Statistics and NSF. Extended Deadline: June 15. Read more

As the end of the school year draws near, we want to acknowledge the incredible creativity, resilience, and hard work of educators this year. It has been a time like no other. Read more

"On the eve of our first-ever virtual conference, we call for AERA members and all others who work in education to accept responsibility for transphobic attitudes, cultures, practices, and policies that threaten and inflict harm on transgender and non-binary students and educators."—AERA President Shaun R. Harper and Executive Director Felice J. Levine. Read more