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AERA Selects 29 Exemplary Scholars as 2025 Fellows
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AERA has announced the selection of 29 exemplary scholars as 2025 AERA Fellows. Read more
 
 
AERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics Contracts
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AERA and COPAFS have issued a statement on the sudden termination of 169 contracts within IES, including those that NCES holds for the collection and reporting of education statistics. Read the full statement.
 
 
Congress Issues Letter in Support of IES
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AERA applauds Congress for calling on the Education Department to protect the essential work of the Institute of Education Sciences. Dismantling data collection, analysis, and reporting would undercut the nation's efforts to ensure quality education. Read the letter.
 
 
Penuel to Deliver Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture at 2025 Annual Meeting
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Celebrated scholar William Penuel will deliver the AERA Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture at the 2025 Annual Meeting, which will be held April 23–27 in Denver. Read more
 
 
AERA Major Award Winners to Present Key High-Profile Lectures
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Major award lectures will be given at the forthcoming 2025 AERA Annual Meeting by the 2024 AERA Award Winners. Read more
 
 
Applications for AERA Executive Director Being Accepted
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The AERA Executive Director Search Committee is accepting applications for the next Executive Director of AERA. Read more
 
 
Jerome Morris Voted AERA President-Elect; Key Members Elected to AERA Council
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Jerome E. Morris, the E. Desmond Lee Endowed Professor of Urban Education at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, has been voted president-elect of the American Educational Research Association. Read more
 
 
NCES Commissioner Peggy Carr Placed on Administrative Leave
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NCES Commissioner Dr. Peggy Carr was placed on administrative leave, as a further blow to this statistical agency's capacity to collect, analyze, and report on high quality education data with objectivity and integrity. Read the Washington Post article.
 
 
Important Resource for Archiving Federal Data
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We continue to monitor and act on developments relating to federal data accessibility, collection, and reporting. Our partners at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) have an archive tool, DataLumos, for crowdsourcing government data. We encourage AERA members to utilize it. Learn more about this important resource.
 
 
Siddle Walker to Deliver 2025 AERA Distinguished Lecture at Annual Meeting
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Preeminent scholar and AERA Past President (2019-2020) Vanessa Siddle Walker will deliver the AERA Distinguished Lecture at the 2025 Annual Meeting, to be held April 23–27 in Denver. Read more
 
 
2026 Annual Meeting Call for Volunteer Reviewers
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AERA is seeking volunteers to serve as peer reviewers for submissions for the 2026 AERA Annual Meeting. Individuals interested in being considered as peer reviewers are encouraged to volunteer for specific units (divisions, SIGs, or committees) through the AERA online program portal by logging into My AERA. The system will be open until April 18. Learn more
 
 
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