May 2025

Five AERA members have been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are among 250 new academy members elected as the 2025 cohort. The announcement was made by the academy on April 23.

The AERA members elected are Charles M. Payne (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; AERA Centennial Series lecturer), Cynthia E. Coburn (Northwestern University; AERA Fellow, AERA Early Career Award winner), Amanda Datnow (University of California, San Diego; AERA Fellow), John B. Diamond (Brown University; AERA Fellow, 2022 AERA Brown Lecturer), and Mary Helen Immordino-Yang (University of Southern California; AERA Early Career Award winner).

The academy is an honorary society founded in 1780 that is dedicated to recognizing excellence and relying on expertise to advance the public good. New elected members are accomplished individuals from the nonprofit, private, and public sectors.

"AERA offers its congratulations to these scholars for this well-deserved honor," said Executive Director Felice J. Levine. "Their election into the academy brings important awareness to the field of education research at a critical time for the nation’s scientific enterprise.”

More than 14,500 members have been elected since the academy’s founding. These members join many other AERA members who have been elected to the academy, including AERA past presidents Deborah Loewenberg Ball, James A. Banks, Linda Darling-Hammond, Vivian L. Gadsden, Kris D. Gutiérrez, Tyrone C. Howard, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Carol D. Lee, Na’ilah Suad Nasir, Lauren B. Resnick, Lee S. Shulman, Catherine E. Snow, William F. Tate IV, and Vanessa Siddle Walker.