Newswise — The American Educational Research Association (AERA) convenes the 89th Annual Meeting of the Association on March 24 to 28 in New York City. The Big Apple is expected to attract close to 16,000 scholars from across education research disciplines and fields.
The 2008 Annual Meeting includes 2,000 peer-reviewed sessions based on more than 10,000 submissions. The meeting is an opportunity to learn about the latest research on educational topics ranging from science learning and reading literacy to the black-white achievement gap and preservice teacher education.
This five-day meeting focuses on Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility. Through symposia, lectures, and other special sessions, attention is paid to significant research addressed to the geography of educational opportunity, achievement, and attainment. Key to the theme is that educational researchers have a civic responsibility to add well-warranted knowledge to inform public decision making.
"While in New York City, the AERA community will have an opportunity to explore research, historical writings, and moral arguments," says AERA President William F. Tate. "An overarching purpose is to define, frame, contextualize, explain, and debate solutions to the ongoing challenge of linking research on schools, neighborhoods, and communities to matters of civic responsibility and capacity-building opportunities," he said.
President Tate, a math-science education scholar, is Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts and Sciences and Chair of the Department of Education at Washington University in St. Louis. Tate will deliver the 2008 presidential address on Science and the City: Research and Civic Responsibility on March 26. The Awards Presentation and Presidential Address takes place at 4:05 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton New York.
Other major invited lectures that take place at this year's Annual Meeting include:
"¢ AERA Distinguished LectureThe Economic Payoff to Educational JusticeHenry M. Levin, Teachers College, Columbia University"¢ Decade of Behavior Distinguished LectureCoping with Traumatic Life EventsRoxane Cohen Silver, University of California-Irvine"¢ Distinguished Contributions to Education Research Award (2007) LecturePracticing Community: Changing UnderstandingsMilbray McLaughlin, Stanford University"¢ Wallace Foundation Distinguished LectureThe Centrality of Culture to the Scientific Study of Learning and Development: How an Ecological Framework in Educational Research Facilitates Education's Civic ResponsibilityCarol D. Lee, Northwestern University"¢ W.E. B. Du Bois LectureDr. Du Bois' Educational Prophesy: An Unfulfilled LegacyDerrick Bell, New York University School of Law"¢ AERA Public Service Award LectureWhy Making a Science Out of Science Education Is Critical for the World's FutureBruce Alberts, University of California- San FranciscoEditor-in-Chief, ScienceFormer President, National Academy of Sciences"¢ Presidential Invited AddressSeven Things I've Learned About Education Research and Policy, Plus or Minus TwoGrover J. (Russ) Whitehurst, Director, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education"¢ Social Justice in Education Award LectureSocial Justice In Hard TimesSonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The 2008 Annual Meeting Program has been added as an online resource to those from 2004 through 2007, posted at www.aera.net to use year-round for links to experts and the latest research. This year's program includes an array of topics, many focused around the theme of education and community. Sessions are searchable by presenter name, affiliation, and session/presentation (keyword).
The Hilton New York, Marriott Marquis, Sheraton New York and Crowne Plaza Times Square will be co-headquarters hotels for the Annual Meeting.
The AERA Pressroom will be located in the Sheraton New York, March 24 to 28. For complimentary press registration, contact AERA Communications at [email protected].
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) is the national interdisciplinary research association for approximately 25,000 scholars who undertake research in education. Founded in 1916, AERA aims to advance knowledge about education, to encourage scholarly inquiry related to education, and to promote the use of research to improve education and serve the public good. www.aera.net
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