June 2025

AERA News

AERA Sues to Protect NSF Research Grants, Fight to Protect Federal Research Infrastructure Continues
On June 18, AERA—along with the American Association of Colleges and Universities, American Association of Physics Teachers, American Association of University Professors, Women in Engineering ProActive Network, and United Auto Workers (representing graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, faculty, and university staff)—filed a suit challenging DOGE’s unlawful mass termination of grants at the National Science Foundation. Read more

AERA Selects James Banks to Deliver 2025 Brown Lecture in Education Research
James A. Banks, the Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies Emeritus and founding director of the Center for Multicultural Education (now the Banks Center for Educational Justice) at the University of Washington, has been selected by the American Educational Research Association to present the 2025 Brown Lecture in Education Research. Read more

2025 Annual Meeting Presidential Address, Opening Plenary, Award Lectures, and Other Recordings Released
Eight videos of prominent sessions from the 2025 Annual Meeting are now available for open-access viewing on the AERA website.

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AERA Nominations Sought

AERA Nominating Committee Seeks Recommendations for 2026 AERA-Wide Elected Officers—Deadline: September 9
The AERA Nominating Committee seeks recommendations of candidates for AERA-wide offices. Read more

Nominating Committee for AERA SIG Executive Committee Seeks Recommendations—Deadline: September 9
The Nominating Committee for the AERA Special Interest Groups Executive Committee seeks recommendations for well-qualified candidates to run for two positions as member-at-large in the 2026 election. Read more

Nominating Committee for AERA Graduate Student Council Welcomes Recommendations—Deadline: September 9
The AERA Graduate Student Council Nominating Committee welcomes recommendations of well-qualified individuals as potential candidates to run for GSC office in the 2026 election. Read more

 The Call for Submissions for the 2026 AERA Annual Meeting is open! The deadline to submit is July 25.

Research Policy and Funding News

AERA Provides Comments on Proposed Updates to 2026 NAEP and EDFacts
AERA continues to respond to requests for comments regarding federal data collections and systems, despite Executive Orders that have created a precarious foundation for the continuation of, access to, and future planning for data and statistics under the aegis of the National Center for Education Statistics. Read more

AERA Provides Comment on Proposed Schedule Policy/Career Designation, Urges Exemption of Federal Research Program Officers and Statistical Agency Staff
On June 6, AERA provided comments on a proposed rule to designate certain federal agency staff under a new category of “Schedule Policy/Career.” Read more

Congress Begins Action on FY 2026 Appropriations, AERA Weighs in With Testimony
As the Trump administration released its full budget request for FY 2026 that included deep cuts for federal research agencies, Congress also began consideration and development of appropriations legislation. Read more

FY 2026 Budget Request Includes Deep Cuts for Federal Research Agencies
On May 30, the Trump administration began its rollout of the full budget request for the 2026 fiscal year. Read more

OSTP Issues Guidance for Implementing “Gold Standard Science” Executive Order
On June 23, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released guidance to federal agencies for implementing the Executive Order “Restoring Gold Standard Science.” Read more

National Institutes of Health Launches NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Hub
On June 27, the National Institutes of Health opened up the NIH Brain Development Cohorts Data Hub. Read more

AERA has recently released the second edition of the Handbook of Education Policy Research, the largest volume published in AERA’s history and ed­ited by Lora Cohen-Vogel, Peter Youngs, and Janelle Scott.

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AERA Publications News

2025 Impact Factors Released
On June 19, the 2025 impact factors were released in the Journal Citation Reports. Read more

AERA Publications Calls

Call for Editors: Review of Research in Education 2027, 2029

In Memoriam

AERA members who have recently passed away

Hope Leichter, 97, died on May 25. She was the Elbenwood Professor Emerita of Education and director of the Elbenwood Center for the Study of the Family as Educator at Teachers College, Columbia University. Read more

David B. Yaden, 76, died on March 20. He was a professor of language, reading, and culture at the University of Arizona College of Education. Read more

Beyond AERA

AERA in the News

Help your students avoid falling down the ‘summer slide’
KXAN, June 22

Federal Judge Won’t Block Trump’s Cuts to IES
Inside Higher Ed, June 18

Education Department reinstates some research and data activities
The Hechinger Report, June 16

Experts warn of summer learning loss, urge parents to engage kids in education activities
ABC 3340, June 12

If you need K-12 education data, these 10 data tools from nonprofit research organizations can help
The Journalist's Resource, June 10

A week of breaking news in education research
The Hechinger Report, June 9

Education researchers lose to Trump administration in first round of court challenge
The Hechinger Report, June 5

Trump Fired Education Experts, Including Me, From White House Board
Time, June 4

More AERA in the News

AERA Highlights is published by the American Educational Research Association monthly to inform members and others interested in education research about the latest news and developments in AERA and in the field.

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