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AERA Highlights July 2015

July 2015

AERA News
Research Policy and Funding News
AERA Calls
Beyond AERA
AERA in the News

AERA News
AERA Holds Capitol Hill Briefing on LGBTQ Issues in Education Nearly 100 congressional staff, federal agency employees, and members of the research community attended AERA’s congressional briefing on its recently released report LGBTQ Issues in Education, on July 9.
AERA Conference Examines Early Childhood Research On July 15–17, AERA held a research-intensive conference on “Advancing Knowledge and Building Capacity for Early Childhood Research: Creating Synergies Among Segregated Scholarly Communities.
AERA and ASHE Issue Joint Resolution on Tenure and Academic Freedom in Wisconsin Adopted and Issued by both organizations, June 30, 2015
AERA Releases Statement on the Charleston Shootings and Racism in America Adopted in a Unanimous Resolution by the Council of the American Educational Research Association on June 26, 2015
2015 Annual Meeting Papers Now Available in Open-Access Online Repository More than 2,910 full-text papers from research presentations given at the 2015 AERA Annual Meeting have been added to AERA’s open-access Online Paper Repository.
AERA Journals Top International Education and Education Research Rankings Two AERA journals are ranked in the top ten of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), released in June 2015. AERA’s journals are included in the “Education and Educational Research” category, which includes 224 peer-reviewed scholarly journals.

Research Policy and Funding News
Ruth Neild Named to Lead Institute of Education Sciences Ruth Curran Neild, who had been the commissioner of the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, assumed the responsibility of directing the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
House and Senate ESEA Bills Advance with Student Privacy Provisions A successful reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act will depend on the ability of House and Senate negotiators to agree on a bill that President Obama will sign into law.
House and Senate Appropriations Committees Vote to Cut Education Spending On June 19, the House Appropriations Committee passed a bill that would cut the Education Department budget by $2.8 billion, terminating 27 programs, the brunt of them in K–12 education.
“Innovation Imperative” Calls for Restored Federal Commitment to Research and Development AERA, along with more than 250 industry, higher education, scientific, and engineering organizations, have signed on to a call urging Congress to enact policies and make investments that ensure the United States remains the global innovation leader.

AERA Calls
Call for 2016 Annual Meeting Volunteer Session Chairs and Discussants – Submissions accepted June 2 - August 28 AERA Open Special Topic Calls for Papers: Student Learning Outcomes in Higher Education – Deadline: August 1 Classroom Assessment as the Co-Regulation of Learning – Deadline: February 1, 2016 Call for Dissertation and Research Grant Applications – Deadline: September 10 Call for Education Research Conference Proposals – Deadline: September 15 Call for Minority Fellowship Applications – Deadline: November 2 Call for Literature Reviews for Centennial Volume-Year of Review of Educational Research

Beyond AERA
NCES Releases New Reports Examining the Qualifications of Public Middle Grades Teachers and of Public High School–Level Teachers of Departmentalized Classes NCES releases Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2014

AERA in the News
Recent media coverage of AERA and AERA-published research
“Study Paints Sobering Picture of Unequal Access to Teacher Quality” Education Week, July 13 “The Racial Imbalances of Special Education” The Atlantic, July 6 “The Special Education Narrative That May Not Be Right” Washington Monthly, June 29 “Study on Minorities in Special Education Proves Provocative” Education Week, June 25 “More Minority Students Should Be In Special Ed, Study Says” Huffington Post, June 24 More AERA in the News

AERA Highlights is published by the American Educational Research Association monthly to inform members and others interested in education research about the latest news and developments in AERA and in the field. Editor: Felice J. Levine Managing Editors: Tony Pals and John Neikirk Contributors: Juliane Baron, Jessica Campbell, Christy Talbot, Martha Yager