Each year, the AERA President examines the state and future of the field of education research in a major address at the AERA Annual Meeting. Presidential Addresses examine important education, research, and societal issues, and shape the direction of scholarship.
2023
Consequential Research in Education
Rich Milner
2022
A Vision for the Future of Learning
Na’ilah Suad Nasir
2020
A Worldwide Gathering for Reflection, Presentation, and Rededication
Vanessa Siddle Walker
2019
Leveraging Education Research in a Post-Truth Era: Multimodal Narratives to Democratize Evidence
Amy Stuart Wells
2018
Just Dreams and Imperatives: The Power of Teaching in the Struggle for Public Education
Deborah Loewenberg Ball
2017
Knowledge to Action: Achieving the Promise of Equal Educational Opportunity
Vivian L. Gadsden
2015
Toward Justice: Culture, Language, and Heritage in Education Research and Praxis
Joyce E. King
2014
The Power of Education Research for Innovation in Practice and Policy
Barbara Schneider
2013
Beyond the Ivory Tower:The Role of the Intellectual in Eliminating Poverty
William Tierney
2012
Non Satis Scire: To Know Is Not Enough
Arnetha F. Ball