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Dr. Jerome Morris Elected Next AERA President, Continuing Legacy of Black Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Desmond Lee Endowed Professor of Urban Education at the University of MissouriSt. Louis, has been elected as the next president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). My background directly informs my work and my approach to educational research," said Morris. "I Morris, the E.

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From Small-Town Roots to National Honor: SC Native Receives State's Highest Award

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Moore is also the assistant director of the Directorate for STEM Education at the National Science Foundation. billion and nearly 200 employees, he helps to leads the largest federal entity dedicated to funding educational research. His research spans multiple disciplines, including school counseling, urban education, and STEM.

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Why HBCUs Are Ideal Partners for Advancing Early Childhood Education

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billion is a staggering amount of public investment thats what states collectively spent in just one year on state-funded preschool, according to the latest report from the National Institute for Early Education Research. Instead, its grounded in meeting educators where they are literally and figuratively.

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Dr. Maisha T. Winn, Stanford University

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Winn is the Excellence in Learning Graduate School of Education Professor and Faculty Director of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning's Equity in Learning Initiative. She is also the President-Elect of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). She is the Principal Investigator for the Futuring for Equity Lab.

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Dr. Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby Selected to Lead USC Race and Equity Center

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DeCuir-Gunby has published four books, including Race and Ethnicity in the Study of Motivation in Education [Routledge, 2016] and Understanding Critical Race Research Methods and Methodologies [Routledge, 2019]. She is an APA Fellow and an American Educational Research Association Fellow.

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Former K-12 Teacher Voted AERA President-Elect

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Winn has been elected to a leadership post at the American Educational Research Association (AERA). She is co-founder and co-director of the Transformative Justice in Education Center at the University of California, Davis.

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How to Address the Dearth in Black Male Teachers

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Strachan, who is a member of the Board of the Alabama Science Teachers Association (ASTA), holds a doctorate in science education from Morgan State University; a Master of Secondary Education (biology) from Alabama A&M; and a B.S. in biology from Mount Allison University.