Three people died in a Houston Flea Market and a California church today. And yesterday, an 18-year old targeted a black neighborhood in Buffalo and killed 10 people. “It’s just too much. I’m trying to bear witness but it’s just … Continued
With a resurgence of the pandemic—and the reminder of its lasting damage because we will mark 1 million who have died from it this week—it is time to declare a national emergency and organize a national crisis-response to identify and … Continued
For Immediate ReleaseFebruary 22, 2022 Contacts:Tony Pals, tpals@aera.net(202) 238-3235 Marla Koenigsknecht, mkoenigsknecht@aera.net(202) 238-3233 AERA Statement on the Significance of Academic Freedom in a Divisive Political Climate Felice J. Levine, AERA Executive DirectorNa’ilah Suad Nasir, AERA President, 2021–2022 February 22, 2022 Our democracy … Continued
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) is meeting over the next two weeks in person in San Diego and virtually for members who cannot make the in-person meeting. The mission of AERA is: The American Educational Research Association (AERA), a … Continued
On April 6, 2022, the House Labor, Health and Human Services committee heard testimony from Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond entitled, “Social and Emotional Learning and Whole Child Approaches in K-12 Education.” The science of learning in the last ten years has … Continued
How might we envision new classroom procedures that attend to the latest research findings? Without getting bogged down in the research, let’s sketch out what classrooms might look like. Adapting to—and Implementing With—Student Learning Teachers are quite successful when they … Continued
Teachers and students are back in K-12 schools but the negative effects of the pandemic on schools are just beginning to be documented. We generally know that less students showed up to schools, less teachers renewed their contracts, and less … Continued
There are new grants from the Education Department called Competitive Grants for State Assessments. These grants are part of a larger thought that we need to re-design the type of assessments we use in schools and the use we put … Continued
The New Hampshire Commissioner of Education, Frank Edelblut, has proposed to narrow the State’s curriculum in order to allow teachers to focus on the core domains. Included in the core are English, Math, Science and Social Studies. The biggest change … Continued
Let’s say there are no more resources, no more time, and no more political ways to change education. If all we can do is reorganize our work in schools, how would we do that? So many school reforms ask us … Continued