A new study finds that early elementary school teachers report feeling less close to chronically absent students and view them less positively, even when those students do not cause trouble in the classroom. Read more
The 2025 Annual Meeting theme—“Research, Remedy, and Repair: Toward Just Education Renewal”—“calls us to consider how we can work across disciplinary, epistemological, and methodological orientations to forge deeper connections in our field that can speak to the challenges we face in education and in our imperfect multiracial democracy.” Learn more
By Linda Darling-Hammond, Michelle Renée Valladares, and Kevin Welner
AERA 2015–16 President Jeannie Oakes, 81, died on April 25. Read more
Dr. Felice J. Levine has decided to step down as AERA’s Executive Director effective June 15, 2025, after leading the association since 2002. Read the announcement from Levine and AERA President Janelle Scott.
Eleven videos of prominent sessions from the 2024 Annual Meeting are now available for open-access viewing on the AERA website.
AERA has announced the new editor team for the American Educational Research Journal for the 2025–2027 volume years. Read more