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Former K-12 Teacher Voted AERA President-Elect

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Winn has been elected to a leadership post at the American Educational Research Association (AERA). She won the AERA Early Career Award in 2012 and the Qualitative Research SIG’s 2015 Outstanding Book Award for Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry with Youth and Communities (SAGE, co-edited with D.

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Community-Engaged Scholar Dr. DeLeon Gray Believes in the Value of Hyperlocal Work

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Gray began conducting youth programs when he arrived at North Carolina State as a professor in 2012. Gray is also codesigning lapel pins with his mentees and selling them to raise money for their attendance at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). These schools feel like home to me.”

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Study: Third-Grade Retention Has Positive Effects for Student Outcomes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Holding students back a year may have its benefits, according to a recent study published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). According to the study, Indiana’s grade retention policy was in effect from the 2011-2012 through 2016-2017 school years.

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Lifting As They Climb

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The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception. Dr. Linda Darling- Hammond The leadership of the national research society that strives to advance knowledge about education and currently boasts a membership of about 25,000 scholars — remained exclusively white until the 1990s. Ball, the Charles E.

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Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper

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based Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), one of the nation’s premiere education research and policy centers, Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper has a vision. Since taking the helm of IHEP in 2008, Cooper’s been out front influencing national education policy. As president of the Washington, D.C.-based

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Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

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Minorities are disproportionately underrepresented in special education: Longitudinal evidence across five disability conditions. Educational Researcher , 44 , 278–292. Are Black children disproportionately overrepresented in special education? Educational Researcher, 46, 6, 305-322. Mattison, R.,

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Bullying

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2012; Turunen et al., Journal of Educational Research, 111 (3), 284–294. Children experiencing reading difficulties are more likely to self-report feeling angry, sad, and unpopular during elementary schoo. Morgan et al., 2014; Morgan et al., 2017, 2021). Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 47, 586600. link] Huang, F. Farkas, G.,