ÐÜèÊÓÆµ2025 Election Underway—Vote by February 13 The ÐÜèÊÓÆµ2025 election opened on January 15, with voting conducted by electronic ballot. The election extends over a 30-day period, concluding February 13, at 11:59 p.m. PST. Read more
ÐÜèÊÓÆµ2025 Annual Meeting Program Open—Early Bird Registration Available Until February 20 The preliminary online searchable program for the 2025 ÐÜèÊÓÆµAnnual Meeting opened on December 27. Read more
ÐÜèÊÓÆµSeeks to Connect with Members Serving on School Boards ÐÜèÊÓÆµis seeking to network with and create a community of education researchers who are serving on school boards and potentially connecting research to evidence-based policy and practice through such service. Read more
Nineteen ÐÜèÊÓÆµFellows Named to National Academy of Education Nineteen ÐÜèÊÓÆµFellows were among 22 exceptional education leaders and scholars recently elected to the National Academy of Education. Read more
ÐÜèÊÓÆµAwards Five New Deeper Learning Fellowships ÐÜèÊÓÆµhas selected five new fellows for the ÐÜèÊÓÆµFellowship Program on the Study of Deeper Learning. Read more
Graduate students are the future of education research – and the need to help emerging scholars has never been more critical. That is why we are asking for your generous support to maintain the 2025 ÐÜèÊÓÆµAnnual Meeting Graduate Student Assistance Fund.
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PECASE Awardees Announced; Includes Seven ÐÜèÊÓÆµMembers On January 14, President Joe Biden announced the recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, which honors early career scholars who are engaged in federally-funded research. Read more
119th Congress and Trump Administration Leadership Announced With the convening of the 119th Congress at the beginning of January and the second term of President Donald Trump underway with his inauguration on January 20, new names and faces will be involved in key congressional committees and federal agencies. Read more
In the last month of President Joe Biden’s administration National Science and Technology Council, within the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, released two reports with guidance for federal agencies to reduce sexual harassment in federally funded research and building an evidence agenda on disability. Read more
Crissa Stephens, an independent scholar, has been named this year’s recipient of the TIRF James E. Alatis Prize for her 2024 American Educational Research Journal article "Invisible Policy Brokers: The Political Roles of Interpreters in Educational Policy Negotiations With Language Minoritized Mothers." Read more
ÐÜèÊÓÆµ2025–26 Congressional Fellowship Program—Deadline: March 10
2026 Annual Meeting Volunteer Reviewers—Deadline: April 18
A. Wade Boykin, 77, died on January 11. He had been a professor and director of the graduate program in the Department of Psychology at Howard University. Boykin served as chair of the ÐÜèÊÓÆµGovernment Relations Committee and the Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award Committee.
David Goslin, 88, died on December 28. He served as president and chief executive officer of the American Institutes on Research. Goslin was an ÐÜèÊÓÆµFellow.
Iris Rotberg, 91, died on January 1. She was a professor at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at George Washington University.
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