AERA 2024 Election Underway—Vote by February 16 The AERA 2024 election opened on Thursday, January 18, with voting conducted by electronic ballot. Read more
Kimberlé W. Crenshaw to Deliver Opening Keynote Lecture at the 2024 AERA Annual Meeting AERA has announced Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, a pioneering scholar and writer on civil rights, critical race theory, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism, and the law, will deliver the Opening Plenary Keynote Lecture at the 2024 AERA Annual Meeting. Read more
AERA 2024 Annual Meeting Program Now Open The online searchable program for the 2024 AERA Annual Meeting is now open. Read more
AERA Announces New Cohort of Deeper Learning Fellows AERA has selected six new fellows for the AERA Fellowship Program on the Study of Deeper Learning. Read more
Compelling Lineup of Professional Development Courses Unveiled for Annual Meeting The 2024 AERA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia will feature a program of 12 professional development and training courses covering topics in education research design; quantitative, qualitative, and mixed research methods; meta-analysis; and other data analysis techniques. Read more
AERA invites applications for the AERA Congressional Fellowship Program. Applications are due by February 7, 2024. Read the Call for Applications for more information.
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ER Editors Share Their Vision for Their Term The editor-in-chief and coeditors of Educational Researcher—Nicholas A. Bowman, Olusola O. Adesope, Brian P. An, Royel M. Johnson, Angela Urick, and Anjalé D. Welton—have shared their vision for ER during their term (2024–2026) in an Editors’ Introduction, now available open access online. Read more
AERA Online Paper Repository Downloads Exceed 100,000 AERA has announced that downloads from AERA’s open access Online Paper Repository have now exceeded 100,000. Read more
AERA Provides Comments to NSF on Public Access Plan 2.0 On January 19, AERA submitted comments in response to the Request for Information from the National Science Foundation on the agency’s Public Access Plan 2.0. Read more
Congressional Fellowships—Deadline: February 7
AERA Fellowship Program on the Study of Deeper Learning—Deadline Extended: March 4 • Watch the November 1 Informational Webinar
Call for Editors: American Educational Research Journal 2025–2027
Call for Editors: Review of Research in Education 2026, 2028
Review of Research in Education Volume 49 (2025) Call for Proposals: Equitable Educational Systems that Cultivate Thriving—Deadline Extended and Call for Proposals Updated: February 8
ESSAY: Jennifer Delaney, editor of the AERA book Volatility in State Spending for Higher Education, examines how long it takes to restore state spending on higher education in a piece for The Academic Minute.
Nominations for the Yidan Foundation Prizes for Education Research and Education Development are open until March 31.
Mark A. Albanese, 72, died on December 31. He was director emeritus of testing and research at the National Conference of Bar Examiners and emeritus professor of population health and educational psychology at the Schools of Medicine and Public Health and Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read more
Roger E. Kirk, 93, died on December 30. He was an emeritus distinguished professor of psychology and statistics at Baylor University. Kirk was an AERA Fellow and a member of Division D–Measurement and Research Methodology. Read more
Tatiana Melguizo, 55, died on January 10. She was a professor at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. Read more
New Study Suggests Elite Colleges Should Reinstate SAT/ACT Best Colleges, January 30
5 Ways Schools Can Find Homeless Students That They Might Overlook Education Week, January 29
Why Hiring Socially Mobile Talent Should Be the Number One Priority For Every Business HR Review, January 22
Reading on Screens Worsens Comprehension for Younger Students. What Can Teachers Do? Education Week, January 17
State Spending for Higher Education and Cuts The Academic Minute, January 16 (Reprinted in Inside Higher Ed and NPR)
Reducing Free School Meal Stigma Helps Cut Student Suspensions, Study Finds Forbes, January 15
Indelible Ink: The Lasting Benefits of Print Media for Reading Comprehension National Endowment for the Arts Blog, January 11
Teachers who frequently refer students to the office: Who are they and how can we help them? Thomas B. Fordham Institute “Flypaper” Blog, January 11
The loss of deep reading: How digital texts impact kids’ comprehension skills Big Think, January 10
What Does ‘Evidence-Based’ Mean? A Study Finds Wide Variation. Education Week, January 10
Opinion: The best way to teach a kid to read? Here’s an answer. Tampa Bay Times, January 4
Broward school leaders are weighing a 4-day school week. What about Palm Beach County? The Palm Beach Post, January 4
Conflict Over Community College Baccalaureate Degrees Lands in Idaho Inside Higher Ed, January 4
Phones in classrooms aren't our only concerns Toronto Star, January 4
STEM learning outcomes get a boost from diverse classrooms eCampus News, January 3
National conference will examine Philadelphia education landscape The Philadelphia Tribune, January 2
Diverse Classrooms in College STEM Courses Improve Learning Outcomes for All Students The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, January 1
Community schools work to boost student performance by meeting their non-academic needs NewsCenter 1, January 1
For improved reading comprehension, print trumps screens Free Malaysia Today, December 27
Learning via computer or phone is 6-8 times less effective than paper books Lao Dong, December 27
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