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January 2025

January 2025
AERA News
AERA 2025 Election Underway—Vote by February 13 The AERA 2025 election opened on January 15, with voting conducted by electronic ballot. The election extends over a 30-day period, concluding February 13, at 11:59 p.m. PST. Read more
AERA 2025 Annual Meeting Program Open—Early Bird Registration Available Until February 20 The preliminary online searchable program for the 2025 AERA Annual Meeting opened on December 27. Read more
Site to Create Content for 2025 AERA i-Presentation Gallery Opens February 13; Training Sessions to Be Held March 5 and March 12 On February 13, the first-listed author of each paper to be presented during the 2025 AERA Annual Meeting—whether in a paper session, roundtable session, poster session, structured poster session, or a virtual i-Presentation—will receive an email invitation to create their presentation for display in the AERA i-Presentation Gallery. Read more
AERA Seeks to Connect with Members Serving on School Boards AERA is seeking to network with and create a community of education researchers who are serving on school boards and potentially connecting research to evidence-based policy and practice through such service. Read more
Nineteen AERA Fellows Named to National Academy of Education Nineteen AERA Fellows were among 22 exceptional education leaders and scholars recently elected to the National Academy of Education. Read more
AERA Awards Five New Deeper Learning Fellowships AERA has selected five new fellows for the AERA Fellowship Program on the Study of Deeper Learning. Read more
Education Researchers Honored by Yidan Prize Education researchers Wolfgang Lutz, Mark Jordans, Marwa Zahr, and Luke Stannard were honored with the 2024 Yidan Prize this past December. Read more
AERA to Implement Revised Policy on Job Listings Effective March 1, AERA will be implementing a revised policy change regarding job postings on association listservs. Read more
Graduate students are the future of education research – and the need to help emerging scholars has never been more critical. That is why we are asking for your generous support to maintain the 2025 AERA Annual Meeting Graduate Student Assistance Fund. Want to advertise in AERA Highlights? Learn more
Research and Science Policy News
PECASE Awardees Announced; Includes Seven AERA Members On January 14, President Joe Biden announced the recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, which honors early career scholars who are engaged in federally-funded research. Read more
119th Congress and Trump Administration Leadership Announced With the convening of the 119th Congress at the beginning of January and the second term of President Donald Trump underway with his inauguration on January 20, new names and faces will be involved in key congressional committees and federal agencies. Read more
NICHD Releases 2025 Strategic Plan On January 17, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development released its 2025 Strategic Plan. Read more
Biden Administration Issues Reports on Reducing Harassment in Federally Funded Research, Federal Evidence Agenda on Disability, Prior to Leaving Office In the last month of President Joe Biden’s administration National Science and Technology Council, within the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, released two reports with guidance for federal agencies to reduce sexual harassment in federally funded research and building an evidence agenda on disability. Read more
Publications News
AERJ Author Awarded TIRF Alatis Prize Crissa Stephens, an independent scholar, has been named this year’s recipient of the TIRF James E. Alatis Prize for her 2024 American Educational Research Journal article "Invisible Policy Brokers: The Political Roles of Interpreters in Educational Policy Negotiations With Language Minoritized Mothers." Read more
AERA Calls
AERA 2025–26 Congressional Fellowship Program—Deadline: March 10 2026 Annual Meeting Volunteer Reviewers—Deadline: April 18
AERA Publications Calls
Call for Editors: Review of Research in Education 2027, 2029
WERA Calls
World Education Research Association (WERA) Focal Meeting—Deadline for Submissions: February 6
In Memoriam
A. Wade Boykin, 77, died on January 11. He had been a professor and director of the graduate program in the Department of Psychology at Howard University. Boykin served as chair of the AERA Government Relations Committee and the Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award Committee. Read more David Goslin, 88, died on December 28. He served as president and chief executive officer of the American Institutes on Research. Goslin was an AERA Fellow. Read more Iris Rotberg, 91, died on January 1. She was a professor at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at George Washington University. Read more AERA 1984-1985 President Lee Shulman, 86, died on December 30. He was the President Emeritus of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Shulman was an AERA Fellow and received AERA’s Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award. A full remembrance will be published in a future issue of Highlights.
Beyond AERA Visit the Beyond AERA webpage for professional advancement opportunities from other organizations, including calls for papers and submissions, meetings and conferences, and other activities.
Funding Opportunity—Spencer Initiative on AI and Education The Spencer Initiative on AI and Education will fund research on AI, education, and learning that supports equitable educational use, development, and understanding of AI technologies. The foundation will fund new research through two existing programs: the Vision Grant Program and the Racial Equity Program. Learn more
AERA in the News Recent media coverage of AERA and AERA-published research
Colleges no longer protected from immigration raids Higher Ed Dive, January 21 Parent poll of kids' progress in math reveals disparity in access across Massachusetts WBUR, January 16 CTU contract talks remain stuck on what goes on in schools — not on economics WBEZ Chicago, January 12 Research reveals growing diversity of suburban schools, racial isolation in urban schools Oklahoma Voice, January 2
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