AERA 2023 Election—Voting Opens January 18 The AERA 2023 election will open on Wednesday, January 18, 2023, with voting conducted by electronic ballot. Read more
Registration for 2023 AERA Annual Meeting to Open January 10 Registration for the 2023 AERA Annual Meeting will open on January 10. The conference will be dual-component, with the place-based component to be held in Chicago, April 13–16, and the virtual component to be held on an online platform on May 4–5. Read more
AERA Drawing for End-of-Year Renewing and Joining Members AERA is offering a special end-of-year offer for AERA members who renew their membership or join AERA between December 15 and 31. Read more
AERA Providing New Opportunities for Graduate Student Members at 2023 Annual Meeting AERA has advanced several new initiatives to expand opportunities for AERA graduate student members to participate in the 2023 Annual Meeting and to enhance their engagement and experiences. Read more
AERA Launches 2023 Annual Meeting Graduate Student Assistance Fund—Applications Due January 19 AERA has launched the 2023 Annual Meeting Graduate Student Assistance Fund to provide support to enable graduate student members of AERA with demonstrated need to offset the cost of attending the place-based component of the 2023 Annual Meeting in Chicago, April 13–16. Read more
AERA-NSF Grants Program Holds Fall Research Conference in December On December 2–3, the AERA-NSF Grants Program held its annual Fall Research Conference for the first time in person since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more
AERA Among More than 90 Partner Organizations in Launch of STEMM Opportunity Alliance AERA has joined as a partnering organization for the STEMM Opportunity Alliance, comprised of organizations and entities from across sectors committed to helping develop and advance a national strategy for achieving shared national STEMM equity goals by 2050. Read more
AERA urges end-of-year giving tied to broadening inclusion in the field and supporting professional involvement of graduate students in need, through the Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research Fund and 2023 Annual Meeting Graduate Student Assistance Fund.
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Erin Baumgartner and Ruth N. López Turley Offer Tips for Planning and Starting a Research-Practice Partnership Erin Baumgartner is the director of the Houston Education Research Consortium at Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research; Ruth N. López Turley is a professor of sociology at Rice University and director of the Kinder Institute. Read more
White House Hosts Summit on STEMM Equity and Excellence, Launches STEMM Opportunity Alliance On December 12, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy held a White House Summit on STEMM Equity and Excellence, which launched the STEMM Opportunity Alliance. Read more
NSF SBE Advisory Committee Convenes for Fall 2022 Meeting The National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate Advisory Committee held its fall 2022 meeting December 15–16. Read more
FY 2023 Omnibus Bill Includes Boosts for Education Research and Statistics On December 19, Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patrick Leahy (D-VT) released the bill text and accompanying explanatory statements for the fiscal year 2023 omnibus appropriations bill. Read more
2023 AERA Annual Meeting Graduate Student Assistance Fund—Deadline for Applications: January 19
AERA Congressional Fellowship Program—Deadline for Applications: February 6
AERA Education Research Service Projects—Deadline for Proposals: January 9 AERA-NSF Dissertation and Research Grants Program—Deadline for Applications: January 10
AERA Education Research Conferences—Deadline for Proposals: March 6
Call for Editors: Educational Researcher 2024–2026
Consensus Study: Promoting Learning and Development In K-12 Out-Of-School Time Settings For Low Income and Marginalized Children and Youth—Deadline: December 23
NSF EDU Core Research: Building Capacity in STEM Education Research—Deadline: February 24, 2023
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BERA Annual Conference 2023 | Aston University / Conference Aston | 12–14 September 2023 Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 January 2023
AERA members who have recently passed away
Thomas Hehir, 72, died on June 22. He was a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and had earlier served as director of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs. Read more
CarolAnne M. Kardash, 69, died on August 27. She was a professor emerita in the College of Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Read more
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