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The 2020 Annual Meeting theme—“The Power and Possibilities for the Public Good When Researchers and Organizational Stakeholders Collaborate”—is a call to “to address educational challenges through policy and community engagement and to work with diverse institutional and organizational stakeholders.”
More than 14,000 Education Researchers Drawn to Toronto for AERA Annual Meeting The 2019 AERA Annual Meeting brought more than 14,000 scholars, policy leaders, students, and practitioners to Toronto, Canada, for the largest education research conference in the world, offering five days of stimulating discussion, exchange, and professional development. Read more
Opening Plenary Examines the Power of Educational Institutions to Inflict and Heal Racial Injustices The 2019 Annual Meeting’s Opening Plenary session, “Truth and Reconciliation in Education: History, Narratives, and Pedagogy,” addressed the meaning of truth and reconciliation in the field of education and the power of educational institutions to both inflict and heal racial injustices. Read more
AERA 2019 President Wells Scrutinizes School Testing Policies In this year’s Presidential Address, “An Inconvenient Truth About the New Jim Crow of Education,” 2019 AERA President Amy Stuart Wells (Teachers College, Columbia University) scrutinized testing policies in education, suggesting that standardized testing, with its perpetuation of an unequal education system for students of color, is the new “Jim Crow” of education. Read more
Call for JEBS Editors
IES Director Issues List of Proposed Interventions for the Systematic Replication RFA
NCES Releases Indicators of School Crime and Safety 2018
New NCES Report Looks at Relationship between Educational Attainment and Various Rates of Labor Underutilization
Call for Letters of Inquiry for William T. Grant Foundation’s Research Grants on Reducing Inequality—Deadline: May 1
Call for Letters of Inquiry for William T. Grant Foundation’s Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence—Deadline: May 1
NIH Call for Applications for Predoctoral Training in Advanced Data Analytics for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research - Institutional Research Training Program—Deadline: May 25
Request for Information Seeking Stakeholder Input on the Need for an NIH Administrative Data Enclave—Deadline: May 30
2020 Young Scholars Program Call for Proposals (Foundation for Child Development)—Deadline: June 10
Call for Nominations for the Dunette Prize (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology/APA Division 14 and the SIOP Foundation)—Deadline: June 30
Advanced Methods Institute on “In Support of Culturally Sustainable Research and Researchers,” Ohio State University, College of Education and Human Ecology, June 24 – 27
Study: Paper Reading More Effective Than Screen Reading Voice of America, April 16
Gifted classes may not help talented students move ahead faster The Hechinger Report, April 15
4 Ways Schools Help or Hinder Gifted Students Education Week, April 15
Are Students Socially Connected? Check Their Dining-Hall-Swipe Data The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 9
Algebra for 3rd Graders? Education Week, April 8
AERA '19: Testing policies are the 'Jim Crow of education,' association president suggests Education Dive, April 8
Digital Distraction Is a Problem Far Beyond the Classroom. But Professors Can Still Help. The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 7
Racial Diversity of Online Charters Varies Widely By State, Study Finds Education Week, April 7
Screen Reading Worse for Comprehension, Leads to Overconfidence, New Meta-analysis Concludes Education Week, April 6
Dem senators introduce bill to combat sexual harassment in STEM The Hill, April 4
Education Researchers Consider 'Post Truth' Evidence at International Conference Education Week, April 5
Dr. Shaun R. Harper Voted AERA President-Elect Diverse Issues in Higher Education, April 3
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