AERA Highlights May 2014
 
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May 2014

Research Advocacy Issues
AERA News
AERA Calls
Beyond AERA
New on the AERA Website
AERA in the News


Research Advocacy Issues  
House Passes IES Reauthorization Bill: AERA Prepares for Potential Senate Action
The House of Representatives approved a bill to reauthorize the Institute of Education Sciences on May 8. The Strengthening Education through Research Act passed by a voice vote.


House Passes NSF Appropriations Bill: Damage to Social and Behavioral Sciences Less Than Feared
After over 17 hours of debate, the House of Representatives voted last night, 331-87, to pass the fiscal year 2015 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations bill that funds the National Science Foundation.


FIRST Act, Slashing SBE Funding, Moves to House Floor
Despite strong opposition from the National Science Board and most science and higher education organizations, the House Science Committee passed the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology (FIRST) Act on May 28.




AERA News

Past President Maxine Greene Dies
AERA Past President Maxine Greene, a professor emeritus and the founder and director of the Maxine Greene Center for Social Imagination, the Arts, and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, died May 29 at age 96.


AERA Features Innovative Research at Capitol Hill Exhibition
AERA showcased groundbreaking education research at the Coalition for National Science Funding’s 20th Annual Capitol Hill Exhibition at the Rayburn House Office Building on May 7.


New JEBS Editors Announced
AERA has named Daniel McCaffrey and Li Cai as the new editors for the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics. McCaffrey and Cai will begin reviewing manuscripts on July 1, 2014, and will become editors of record for a three-year term beginning in January 2015. 




AERA Calls  

Call for Annual Meeting Submissions - Submissions accepted June 2- July 22
The 2015 Annual Meeting theme is intended to focus our attention on justice—locally as well as globally—in a spirit of mutually respectful collaborative engagement with our disciplines and modes of inquiry in the context of the world around us.


Call Prospective Nominees for 2015 AERA Elections – Deadline: July 25
The Nominating Committee invites AERA members to submit recommendations on prospective nominees for the office of President-Elect and for two Members-at-Large. 


Call for Award Nominations – Deadline: October 15
The submission deadline for all 2015 AERA-sponsored awards is October 15Nominations for all awards must be submitted electronically using the AERA award nomination e-form. 



Call for Nominees and Applications for American Educational Research Journal Editorship 
The Journal Publications Committee of AERA invites nominations and applications for the editorship of The American Educational  Research Journal. 




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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: Lauren Green, Bridget Jameson, Paula Skedsvold, Christy Talbot, Martha Yager

                       







 
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