December 2012

Six new essays offer responses to the 2013 Annual Meeting theme, “Education and Poverty: Theory, Research, Policy, and Praxis.”  The December essayists are Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti Alicia Dowd and Estela Bensimon, Sara Goldrick-Rab, Carl Grant, Zeus Leonardo, and Aaron Pallas. Bensimon, Grant, and Pallas are AERA Fellows.

AERA President Bill Tierney and Program Chair Kristen Renn invited a dozen scholars to respond to the theme in short essays and interviews. They invite you to join the conversation by reading the responses, listening to the authors discuss their essays, and leaving comments. Additional responses will be posted in the coming months, with comments open on all essays as we approach the 2013 Annual Meeting in San Francisco. The meeting will feature a Town Hall session on the essays and reactions to them.

This effort builds on the success of the essay series commissioned by Past-President Arnetha Ball and Program Chair Cynthia Tyson for the 2012 Annual Meeting on the theme “Non Satis Scire: To Know Is Not Enough.” Together, responses to the 2012 and 2013 themes provide an accessible resource for discussion, teaching, and research in education.