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April 2018

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2019 Annual Meeting Theme Released; Call for Submissions Coming May 15 The 2019 Annual Meeting theme—“Leveraging Education Research in a ‘Post-Truth’ Era: Multimodal Narratives to Democratize Evidence”—is a call to “push back against the post-truth paradigm by demonstrating, with all the skill and energy we can muster, the value of our inquiry and the knowledge we generate.” The call for submissions will be released May 15; the deadline for submissions is July 23.
2018 Annual Meeting Attracts More Than 17,000 Attendees The 2018 AERA Annual Meeting brought 17,148 scholars, policy leaders, students, and practitioners to New York City for the largest education research conference in the world, offering five days of stimulating research discussion, exchange, and professional development. Read more
AERA Widely Emphasizes Harassment Policies Prior to the start of the 2018 Annual Meeting, AERA issued and widely shared a statement emphasizing the Association’s commitment to making all of its meetings and activities free from harassment or discrimination for all attendees. Read more
Council Affirms by Unanimous Consent Inclusion of Pronoun Option on Meeting Badges AERA Council affirmed by unanimous consent a recommendation by Executive Director Felice J. Levine to add an option to include pronouns on AERA Annual Meeting badges. The change will go into effect with the 2019 Annual Meeting in Toronto, April 5–9, 2019. Read more
*Richard Milner IV to Deliver 2018 Brown* Lecture in Education Research** H. Richard Milner IV, a leading scholar of urban education and teacher education at the University of Pittsburgh, has been selected by AERA to present the 2018 Brown Lecture in Education Research. The public lecture will take place on October 25 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. Read more

AERA Publications News
*New EEPA* Coeditors to Commence Term** AERA is pleased to announce the new coeditor team for Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (EEPA), beginning July 1. Joseph R. Cimpian (New York University), Julie Marsh (University of Southern California), Paco Martorell (University of California, Davis), and Morgan Polikoff (University of Southern California) have been appointed as coeditors for the 2019–2021 volume years. Read more

Research Budget and Policy News
FY 2019 Appropriations Kick Off on Capitol Hill; AERA Acts on Education Research Issues Even before the appropriations process for Fiscal Year 2018 wrapped up, Congress began working on the budget to fund the government in FY 2019. AERA actively supports strong funding for federal agencies investing in education research and the statistical infrastructure. Read more

AERA Calls
Call for 2019 Annual Meeting Volunteer Reviewers – Deadline: May 22

AERA Publications Calls
AERA Open "Special Topic" Calls for Papers: Research Using the Stanford Education Data Archive – Deadline: June 1 Causes and Consequences of School Funding Equity and Adequacy: Using New Longitudinal Data Sources to Inform Policy – Deadline: June 1 Understanding and Supporting Literacy Development Among English Language Learners: A Deep Dive into the Role of Language Comprehension – Deadline: June 1 Screens, Apps, and Digital Books for Young Children: The Promise of Multimedia – Deadline: June 10

Beyond AERA
Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) invites proposals to participate in the Annotation for Transparent Inquiry Challenge – Deadline: May 11. The call is open to faculty and advanced graduate students in social science and other disciplines that employ qualitative data and methods. Spencer Foundation seeks perspectives of scholars on the field of education research and its future directions – Survey open through May 30. Responses are voluntary and will be confidential. Russell Sage Foundation funding/fellowship opportunities: ~Visiting Scholars Fellowship for Academic Year 2019-2020 – Deadline: June 28 ~Programs and initiatives currently accepting letters of inquiry—Behavioral Economics; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; Integrating Biology and Social Science Knowledge; Computational Social Science; Immigration and Immigrant Integration NSF requests public comment on new reporting requirement for sexual harassment, other forms of harassment, or sexual assault – Deadline to comment: May 4 U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) releases the 2015-16 Civil Rights Data Collection NCES releases report on feasibility of collecting school-level finance data NCES issues “Projections of Education Statistics to 2026”

AERA in the News
Recent media coverage of the 2018 AERA Annual Meeting
Discipline Gaps—and Ways to Close Them—Get Researchers' Attention Education Week, April 24 Does a lack of executive function explain why some kids fall way behind in school? The Hechinger Report, April 23 Scholars look for ways to restore respect for expertise University World News, April 21 When Disadvantaged Students Overlook Elite Colleges The Atlantic, April 18 Do Charter Schools Really Improve Student Achievement? Indiana Public Media, April 18 Multi-Tasking With Mobile Phones: Yep, It's Bad for Learning Education Week, April 17 What Happens When 2-Year Schools Offer B.A. Degrees? U.S. News and World Report, April 16 Where Colleges Recruit … and Where They Don't Inside Higher Ed, April 16 It Matters a Lot Who Teaches Introductory Courses. Here’s Why. The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 15 More AERA in the News

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: Juliane Baron, Collin Boylin, Jessica Sibold, Christy Talbot, and Martha Yager

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