December 2024

AERA has announced the appointment of editors-in-chief Gustavo E. Fischman (Arizona State University [ASU]) and Audrey Amrein-Beardsley (Arizona State University) and co-editors Jennifer Keys Adair (University of Texas–Austin), Jason Beech (University of Melbourne), Elizabeth Sumida Huaman (University of Minnesota), and Tao Xin (Beijing Normal University) as the new editor team of AERA Open for 2025–2028.  This team will succeed the team led by editor-in-chief Kara Finnigan (University of Michigan).

“I am so pleased with the appointment of such an outstanding and innovative team with also depth of international expertise,” said AERA Executive Director Felice J. Levine. “They will further advance AERA Open as a leading open access journal while also expanding its global reach.”

The team was appointed by 2024–25 AERA President Janelle T. Scott. This appointment culminated an extensive search driven by the AERA Journal Publications Committee, which is charged with making editorial recommendations to the president from among high-quality proposals. As editors, the new team will begin receiving new manuscripts on January 1, 2025.

With an emphasis on rapid review and dissemination, AERA Open aims to advance knowledge through theoretical and empirical study across arenas of inquiry related to education and learning, publishing scientific and scholarly work that adds to knowledge incrementally and cumulatively. It also serves as a venue for innovation, novel inquiry and ideas, interdisciplinary bridge building, and research that fosters the connection of research to practice and practice to research.

About the Editors

Editors-in-Chief

Gustavo E. Fischman is a professor of educational policy and comparative education and director of the Scholarly Communications Group (SCG) within the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College (MLFTC) at ASU. Dr. Fischman is an internationally recognized scholar in comparative education and critical policy studies. His research explores issues related to open science, scholarly communications, global citizenship education, and sustainability. His overall goal is to contribute to the understanding and improvement of knowledge production and exchange processes between scholars, educators, activists, practitioners, administrators, media workers, policymakers, and the broader public. Dr. Fischman has authored more than 200 academic publications and numerous commentaries and interviews.

Audrey Amrein-Beardsley is a professor of educational policy in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at ASU. Dr. Amrein-Beardsley's research interests include educational policies, measurement and measurement-based systems, research methods, and, more specifically, educational policies and systems based on high-stakes tests and value-added models (VAMs), with emphases on the popular and proprietary Education Value-Added Assessment System (EVAAS). She is author of over 100 peer- and editorially reviewed journal articles and two academic books. She has also served as an expert witness on behalf of many educators across states and districts, as per some of the lawsuits pertaining to the (mis)uses of students’ large-scale standardized test scores (i.e., in California, Florida, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Texas).

Co-Editors

	Jennifer Keys Adair is a professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Texas–Austin. Dr. Adair works with parents, teachers, administrators, and children to improve learning experiences (not just outcomes), with a particular focus on how inequity can be a significant barrier to sophisticated, dynamic, high-quality teaching and learning experiences. Trained in video-cued ethnography and early childhood education, Dr. Adair conducts large-scale qualitative studies of students across national and global contexts. Dr. Adair is a co-author, along with Dr. Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki Colegrove, of the book Segregation by Experience: Agency, Racism, and Learning in the Early Grades (University of Chicago Press, 2021), which won the 2021 Council on Anthropology and Education Outstanding Book Award and the 2021–2022 Book Study Award from the High Scope Educational Research Foundation.
	Jason Beech is an associate professor in global policy in education at the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne, and visiting professor at Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires, where he holds a UNESCO Chair in Education for Sustainability and Global Citizenship. He was dean of the School of Education at Universidad de San Andres (2008–2014) and member of the Board of Directors of the Comparative and International Education Society (2014–2016). His research focuses on the globalization of knowledge and policies related to education. He has also written about, and is passionate about, the challenges of educating for global citizenship and a sustainable future. He has taught in several universities in the Americas, Europe, and Australia.
	Elizabeth Sumida Huaman (Wanka/Quechua) is a professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She studies the relationship between Indigenous lands, cultural practices, and in- and out-of-school learning with Indigenous communities and institutions in the Americas. Centering Indigenous Knowledge Systems, her work examines the structures of modernity and the impacts of development, and explores Indigenous community-based educational design, generative environmental pedagogies, and the frames and practices of decolonial and Indigenous rights. She works on Quechua research methodologies and writes in fellowship with other Indigenous research methodologists worldwide.
	Tao Xin is deputy director of the National Assessment Center for Education Quality of Chinese MOE, and director of the Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment for Basic Education Quality in Beijing Normal University. In the past several years, as leader or principal investigator, Dr. Xin led more than 40 research projects, such as the key project of the Chinese National Social Science Foundation, projects of the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation, and MOE-UNICEF joint projects. He published more than 300 research papers in important domestic and international academic journals and published many other works and textbooks, such as Regression Analysis and Experimental Design.