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AERA Provides Resources on the Impact of Coronavirus With the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the United States and the world, upending the personal and professional lives of millions of people, including students, educators, and education researchers, AERA is providing a breadth of resources to support researchers across fields, educators at all levels of education, and the public. Read more
AERA Offers E-Books at Deep Discounts During Coronavirus—through June 30 All AERA eBooks will be deeply discounted until June 30 to make more accessible worldwide AERA research volumes, including classics like the Handbook of Research on Teaching. Members will receive a 30 percent discount on all orders beyond the member price; 20 percent discounts will be applied to all other orders. Read more
AERA Members Receive Free Access to Additional Issue of Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences AERA members have received complimentary access to the current issue of Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (PIBBS, vol. 7, no. 1), a journal of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences. Read more
AERA Signs On to ASA Statement on Faculty Review and Reappointment Process During COVID-19 Crisis AERA signed on to a statement from the American Sociological Association calling on higher education administrators to consider appropriate temporary adjustments to their review and reappointment processes for tenure-line and contingent faculty. Read more
AERA Provides Appropriations Testimony with Emphasis on EHR and IES On March 13, AERA submitted testimony to the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee with requests for at least $9 billion for the National Science Foundation and $1.68 billion for the Census Bureau. Read more
Federal Agencies and Congress Address Impact of COVID-19 on Education and Research Federal agencies are providing guidance and flexibility for researchers during the coronavirus crisis. National Science Foundation Director France Córdova issued an update on the agency’s efforts to provide flexibility to its grantees, grant applicants, and reviewers. The National Institutes of Health has also provided guidance on proposal and award management of funding opportunities addressing COVID-19. Read more
New GAO Report Details Federal Agency Actions to Address Sexual Harassment in STEM On March 19, the Government Accountability Office issued a report finding that federal agencies funding STEM research are taking actions to address sexual harassment, but that additional actions are needed to ensure compliance with Title IX. Read more
NIH Calls for Applications to Research Firearms Injury and Mortality Prevention On March 20, the National Institutes of Health Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research issued a notice of special interest to solicit applications for one-year supplemental grants for research on firearms injury and mortality prevention. Read more
2021 Grawemeyer Award in Education—Deadline for Nominations: April 15 The Grawemeyer Award in Education is intended to stimulate the dissemination, public scrutiny, and implementation of ideas that have potential to bring about significant improvement in educational practice and advances in educational attainment.
Call for Applications for WERA Visiting Researcher Awards 2020—Deadline: May 1
AERA Open Special Topic: Educational Data Science—Deadline: Papers due June 1 This AERA Open special topic call aims to showcase the best of this ongoing genre of research and to broaden the scope of data science applications to include work on diverse topics and frameworks related to education and learning, much of which is being generated by interdisciplinary scholars and educational domain experts.
Understaffing threatens work at key U.S. education statistics agency, experts say Washington Post, March 31
AERA Virtual Conference Off: 'The Situation Changed in Ways Unimaginable' Education Week, March 24
Latest Coronavirus News Inside Higher Ed, March 24
Major educational convention is latest to cancel in S.F. San Francisco Business Times, March 9
Colleges shift classes online, more conferences are canceled Inside Higher Ed, March 9
AERA Cancels In-Person Conference Due to Coronavirus. The Event Will Be Held Virtually Education Week, March 7
Study: Social studies teachers not 'above the fray' in removing bias from media literacy Education Dive, March 6
Na’ilah Suad Nasir Voted President-Elect of the American Educational Research Association Diverse Issues in Higher Education, March 1
AERA Highlights is published by the American Educational Research Association monthly to inform members and others interested in education research about the latest news and developments in AERA and in the field. Editor: Felice J. Levine Managing Editors: Tony Pals and John Neikirk Contributors: Jessica Sibold, Christy Talbot, Tong Wu, and Martha Yager