Each year, the AERA President discusses the inspiration for and aims of the chosen theme for their respective year's AERA Annual Meeting.
Tyrone C. Howard "Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities: A Call to Action"
Rich Milner "Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth"
Na’ilah Suad Nasir "Cultivating Equitable Education Systems for the 21st Century"
Vanessa Siddle Walker "The Power and Possibilities for the Public Good When Researchers and Organizational Stakeholders Collaborate"
Amy Stuart Wells "Leveraging Education Research in a "Post-Truth" Era: Multimodal Narratives to Democratize Evidence"
Deborah Loewenberg Ball "The Dreams, Possibilities, and Necessity of Public Education"
Jeannie Oakes "Public Scholarship to Educate Diverse Democracies"
Joyce King "Toward Justice: Culture, Language, and Heritage in Education Research and Praxis"
Barbara Schneider and Mark Berends "The Power of Education Research for Innovation in Practice and Policy"