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  | AERA Early Career Award (2010) Lecture: 
 Guofang Li
 
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 | Re-Imagining Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships: The Regional Educational
 Laboratories
 
 The Regional Educational Laboratories
 (RELs) have long been charged with
 responding to regional education needs,
 but the newest generation of RELs will
 conduct their work in a new way: through
 sustained partnerships between researchers
 and education practitioners.  Read more
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 AERA Distinguished Lecture: 
 Jo-Ann Archibald
 
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 |  Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Investigations Into Cognitive and
 Motivational Underpinnings of
 Mathematical Development
 Understanding what causes variation in mathematical ability is a crucial step toward raising students’ achievement and interest in
 the field and decreasing mathematical disability.
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 The Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture: Read more
 William T. Trent
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 | The Development of P–20 Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) To
 Advance Education Research and Policy
 
 In February 2012, the National Center for
 Education Statistics (NCES) released
 Version 2 of the Common Education Data
 Standards (CEDS).
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 AERA Guest Educators
 
 AERA invites guest educators from the host city each year to experience a day at the Annual Meeting.
 
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            |    | K–12 Student Success: Complexity in Mathematics and Science Education Research
 
 This symposium highlights research being conducted by several National Science Foundation Math and Science Partnership projects.
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 | National Science Foundation Priorities and Trajectories for Research Advancement:
 Leadership, Wisdom, and Perspectives
 
 Science leaders join top education researchesrs
 to examine national science foundation priorities
 and trajectories for research advancement.
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  Interview with Joan Ferrini-Mundy  | 
        
            | A Public Hearing on the Gordon Commission on the Future of Assessment in Education  
 The Gordon Commission on the Future of Assessment in K–12 Education is a two-year study group whose members are thought leaders and innovators in academia, research, and policy.  Read more
 |  |   | Whither Opportunity? The American Dream,Then and Now: Examining the Relationship
 Between Increasing Economic Inequality, Schools,
 and Children's Life Chances
 
 Deborah Loewenberg Ball, Dean of the School of Education at the University of Michigan, addressed
 the issue of teaching K-12 mathematics in a presentation entitiled "Mathematical Work of
 Teaching as Content in Mathematics Teacher Education" at the 2012 AERA Annual Meeting.
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            | Games for Learning: An Evidence-Based Approach 
 Rich Mayer addressed the topic of “Games for Learning: An Evidenced Based Approach.
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 |  |  | To Know Is Not Enough: Commissioned Essay Writers Saturday (Coffee) 
 Top Education Researchers Present Their Essays
 on Critical Issues Related to the AERA Annual Meeting Theme: “To Know Is Not Enough”
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