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AERA and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) submitted comments on the next iteration of the National Survey of College Graduates, encouraging the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) to incorporate a sexual orientation question into the 2025 NSCG cycle. (November 4, 2024)

 

AERA provided comments in response to the Request for Information on the forthcoming National Center for Education Statistics Data Users Conference. (October 31, 2024)

 

AERA submitted comments in response to a Request for Information (RFI) on the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Strategic Plan 2025. (October 11, 2024)

 

AERA sent a letter to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee urging and supporting the confirmation of Dr. Adam Gamoran to serve as the next director of the Institute of Education Sciences. (September 30, 2024)

 

AERA submitted comments in response to a Request for Information on the National Institutes of Health draft public access policy and supplemental draft guidance on publication costs.
August 19, 2024

  AERA submitted comments on potential revisions to the 2028 Standard Occupation Classification, highlighting the need for a new occupation for education researchers and for this new occupation and “education teachers, postsecondary,” to be classified as STEM occupations.
August 12, 2024
 
 

AERA and COPAFS submitted comments on a Request for Information from the White House Office of Science Technology Policy to inform the development of a federal evidence agenda on disability equity.
July 15, 2024

 

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