June 2024
AERA has announced the new editor team for the American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) for the 2025–2027 volume years. Motoko Akiba (Florida State University) has been appointed as editor-in-chief, and Conra Gist (University of Houston), Fengfeng Ke (Florida State University), Thomas Luschei (Claremont Graduate University), Mariela A. Rodríguez (The University of Texas at San Antonio), and Saran Stewart (University of Connecticut) will serve as coeditors.
The team was appointed by 2024–2025 AERA President Janelle Scott. This appointment culminated an extensive search driven by the AERA Journal Publications Committee. As editors, Akiba et al. will begin receiving new manuscripts on July 1, 2024.
AERJ is AERA’s flagship journal, featuring articles that advance the empirical, theoretical, and methodological understanding of education and learning. It publishes original peer-reviewed analyses that span the field of education research across all subfields and disciplines and all levels of analysis. It also encourages submissions across all levels of education across the life span and all forms of learning. AERJ welcomes submissions of the highest quality, reflecting a wide range of perspectives, topics, contexts, and methods, including interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work.