Action Alerts
 
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Action Alerts

New and recent action alerts from AERA to association members and others in the science community, calling for individuals to contact Congress, share information with AERA, and assist with data crowdsourcing.

  • Call to Action to Preserve Restricted-Use Data Licenses at the National Center for Education Statistics
    March 14, 2025

    AERA called on members and others in the research community to take urgent action on restricted-use licenses at the National Center for Education Statistics that will be cancelled. Actions included contacting Congress and completing an AERA survey to inform the association's advocacy efforts. 
  • Call for Association Members to Identify the Specific Impacts of Institute of Education Science/National Center for Education Statistics Contract Cancellations
    February 19, 2025

    AERA reached out to association members to request details on the specific losses to work and impact of the Institute of Education Sciences cancellations from those who were directly involved as a contractor or subcontractor on a cancelled contract in addition to those who benefit from the research, data, and evidence-based resources produced under the terminated contracts. AERA has also encouraged members to provide details on impact and general concerns related to federally-funded research, research training grants, or data access, including broader Department of Education grants and research grants or research-related activity at the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
  • Announcement of Key Data Resource DataLumos at Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
    February 14, 2025

    AERA     reached out to members to share information on the key data resource DataLumos, from AERA’s partners at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research for crowdsourcing federal research data, and encourage their engagement. 
  • Announcement of Save the Data Event with Georgetown University's Massive Data Institute 
    February 13, 2025

    AERA cosponsored the Save the Data: Data Preservation Event hosted by Georgetown University's Massive Data Institute and encouraged Washington, DC-area researchers to participate.