Reflections on a Year: My year as President of AERA Part II
As so often happens, one of the more time-consuming and contentious issues during the year was something I had no knowledge about until a week or two after I became president. The merger of AERJ from...
View ArticleReflections on a Year: My Year as President of AERA Part IV
Kris Renn, my program chair, and I put together presidential and invited sessions based on a variety of factors, but a key point had to do with ensuring there was a diversity of opinion. Secretary of...
View ArticleRush to Relevance: Conducting Research to Improve Policy and Practice
“We need research to be more relevant” is a common clarion call in education. Most recently, John Easton, Director of IES, released a video for AERA in which he talks about different initiatives to...
View ArticleApproaching AERA
It’s that time of year again. AERA is in our sights. Last year we had 15,000 attendees in San Francisco so it’s like a small city. I mentioned some of these points before, but they are worth...
View ArticleThe Academic, Version 2.0: The Scholar in the Era of Social Media (#AERA14)
The Academic, Version 2.0: The Scholar in the Era of Social Media (#AERA14) Sun, April 6, 12:25 to 1:55pm, Convention Center, 100 Level, 108B Scholars have been late adopters of social media compared...
View ArticleRecognizing the Trajectory Toward Inequality
In his term as president of the American Education Research Association, Bill Tierney focused on inequity in education. Recently, he edited a volume with Johns Hopkins University Press, Rethinking...
View ArticleTop 11 Things to Think About Approaching AERA’s Annual Meeting
There are two kinds of travelers – people who throw things into their suitcase at the last minute and rush to make the airplane, and others who start to lay out their clothes a few weeks before...
View ArticlePeople in Glass Houses: Rick Hess, AERA, and Rankings
Every year around this time Rick Hess writes a little screed in his outlet of choice – Ed Week – where he calls to task those individuals who come up with funny titles for presentations at AERA. You...
View ArticleHow to Write a Book of the Year
Joyce King, President of AERA, asked me to fill a vacant position on one of the association’s many committees. I can’t say no to Joyce, so I found myself on AERA’s “Book of the Year” committee. I had...
View ArticleWe’re In This Together
Not all education conferences are the same. Before last week, the only conferences I attended were held by the American Education Researcher’s Association (AERA) conference. Both of my experiences at...
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