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More than 50 scholars will represent ������̳ at this year’s annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the largest professional group of its kind in the United States.

This year’s AERA meeting, held in New York City April 13-17, carries the theme of “The Dreams, Possibilities and Necessities of Public Education.”

And for the fourth time in the last five years, one of the organization’s top honors, the Early Career Award, will go to a ������̳ professor: Julie Posselt, an assistant professor of higher education and expert on graduate education admissions.

“This is an incredible honor for me, and a real validation of graduate education as a worthy focus for educational researchers,” Posselt said.

Posselt also received the Early Career Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education in November 2017.

Most recently, Posselt accepted a role as lead advisor for a major grant project helmed by UC Davis and UCLA that will look to cement holistic admissions—the process of considering applicants as “whole people”—in each university’s STEM graduate fields. She is also the author of Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping.

Posselt will join a growing line of recent Trojan professors to win the award: Associate Professor of Education Morgan Polikoff won the Early Career Award in 2017; Brendesha Tynes, an associate professor of education and psychology, won the award in 2015; and Professor of Education, Psychology & Neuroscience Mary Helen Immordino-Yang won it in 2014.

A platform for reform

As part of her award, Posselt will present a lecture at the 2019 annual meeting, to be held in Toronto. The 2017 winner, Polikoff, will deliver his award lecture at this year’s meeting.

Polikoff said his speech will offer lessons for the coming years pertaining to Common Core State Standards and implementation of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act.

“Standards-based reform has been a dominant policy in U.S. schools for the last quarter century,” Polikoff said. “While student outcomes have improved during this period, opportunity and outcome gaps have hardly budged. My talk is going to synthesize my own and others’ research to argue that our failures in policy design and implementation have doomed the reform from having its intended effects.”

Forty-six states and the District of Columbia adopted the Common Core State Standards after they debuted almost a decade ago; in the intervening years, several states have modified the standards. Others repealed the standards and adopted new ones, .

Previous research by Polikoff has suggested that views on common core are tied to political views about former president Barack Obama, whose administration supported adoption of the state standards.

Here’s the full schedule of AERA events that feature ������̳ participants:

The annual meeting for the American Educational Research Association is headed to New York City for April 13–17. More than 50 members of the ������̳ community will represent the school at this year’s convening. 

 

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Friday, April 13, 2018

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SPECIAL EVENT

4:30–6:15 p.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Sutton South

Participant: Ron Avi Astor

OPEN SESSIONS

Noon–1:30 p.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Fourth Floor, Gilbert

Authors: Liane Hypolite, Adrianna Kezar, Joseph Kitchen

Noon–1:30 p.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Fourth Floor, Gilbert

Authors: Adrian Trinidad, David Velasquez

Noon–1:30 p.m., Crown Plaza Times Square, Room 509/510

Authors: Taylor N. Allbright, Michelle Hall, Julie A. Marsh, Susan McKibben

Noon–1:30 p.m., Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Seventh Floor, Room 7.01

Author: Harold F. O’Neil

2:15–3:45 p.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Gibson Suite

Chair: Julie A. Marsh

Authors: Taylor N. Allbright, Julie A. Marsh

2:15–3:45 p.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Fifth Floor, Westside Ballroom Salon 1

Authors: Arely L. Acuna, Thomas DePaola, Gwendelyn Rivera, Marissiko M. Wheaton, Joseph Kitchen

4:05–6:05 p.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Regent Parlor

Authors: Theresa Hernandez, Julie Posselt

 

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Saturday, April 14, 2018

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SPECIAL EVENT

������̳ AERA 2017 Reception

7 p.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Murray Hill Suite B

RSVP for this event.

 

OPEN SESSIONS

8 a.m.–12 p.m., Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Fifth Floor, Room 5.04

Presenters: Susan McKibben, Gale Sinatra

8:15–9:45 a.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Fifth Floor, Booth

Author: Nicole Yates

8:15–9:45 a.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Level, Concourse C Room

Author: David Quinn, Ashley Stewart

10:35 a.m.–12:05 p.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Gramercy Suite A

Presenter: Shaun R. Harper

12:25–1:55 p.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Nassau Suite A

Chair: Dean Karen Symms Gallagher

12:25–1:55 p.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Fourth Floor, Odets

Authors: Liane Hypolite, Antar A. Tichavakunda

2:15–3:45 p.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Fourth Floor, Gilbert

Authors: Darnell G. Cole, Liane Hypolite, Elizabeth Park

2:15–3:45 p.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Fifth Floor, Julliard

Author: Eric Felix

2:15–3:45 p.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Fifth Floor, Westside Ballroom Salon 1

Presenting Author: Julie Posselt

2:15–3:45 p.m., Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Fifth Floor, Room 5.08

Chair: Gale Sinatra

4:05–6:05 p.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Trianon Ballroom

Author: Shaun R. Harper

4:05–6:05 p.m., Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Seventh Floor, Room 7.04

Author: Gale Sinatra

4:05–5:35 p.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Fourth Floor, Wilder

Authors: Thomas J. DePaola, Adrianna Kezar

 

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Sunday, April 15, 2018

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SPECIAL EVENTS

AERA Awards Luncheon

12:25 p.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor

Follow along on Twitter: #AERAAwards

2:45 p.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Regent Parlor

Presenter: Morgan Polikoff, "Reflections on a quarter century of standards-based reform"

OPEN SESSIONS

10:35 a.m.–12:05 p.m., Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Room 3.11

Authors: Stephen J. Aguilar, Zoë Corwin, Tattiya Maruco

10:35 a.m.–12:05 p.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Americas Hall 1-2 - Exhibit Hall

Authors: Darnell G. Cole, Nooshin Valizadeh

10:35 a.m.–12:05 p.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Sutton Center

Chair and author: Suneal Kolluri

10:35 a.m.–12:05 p.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Sutton Center

Chair and author: Suneal Kolluri

10:35 a.m.–12:05 p.m., Sheraton New York Times Square, Second Floor, Metropolitan East Room

Authors: Ron Avi Astor, Hadass Moore

8:15–10:15 a.m., Crown Plaza Times Square, Room 501/502

Authors: W. Edward Chi, Minjeong Jeon, Adrianna Kezar, Elizabeth Park, Tatiana Melguizo

10:35 a.m.–12:05 p.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Clinton Suite

Author: Ayesha Hashim

2:45–4:15 p.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Fifth Floor, Westside Ballroom Salon 1

Author: James Dean Ward

 

POSTER SESSIONS

2:30–4:15 p.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Mercury Ballroom

Author: David Quinn

 

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Monday, April 16, 2018

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OPEN SESSIONS

8:15–9:45 a.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Gibson Suite

Author: Paul Bruno

Discussant: Ayesha Hashim

8:15–9:45 a.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Fourth Floor, Gilbert

Author: Adrian Huerta

8:15–9:45 a.m., Crown Plaza Times Square, Act III-IV Room

Author: Ron Avi Astor

8:15–10:15 a.m., The Parker, Second Floor, Lorica Room

Discussant: Lawrence O. Picus

8:15–9:45 a.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Fifth Floor, Westside Ballroom Salon 2

Chair: Román Liera

10:35 a.m.–12:05 p.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Trianon Ballroom

Author: Susan Bush-Mecenas

10:35 a.m.–12:05 p.m., Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Sixth Floor, Room 6.01

Author: Erika Patall

10:35 a.m.–12:05 p.m., Westin New York at Times Square, Ninth Floor, Palace Room

Author: Ayesha Madni

12:25–1:55 p.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Fourth Floor, O'Neill

Chair: Estela Mara Bensimon

12:25–1:55 p.m., Westin New York at Times Square, Fourth Floor, Gershwin II Room

Authors: Arely L. Acuna, Marissiko M. Wheaton

Mon, April 16, 12:25pm, New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Mercury Ballroom

Presenting Author: James Ward

2:15–3:45 p.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Fourth Floor, Brecht

Authors: Elizabeth Marshall Holcombe, Adrianna Kezar

2:15–3:45 p.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Madison

Chair and author: David Quinn

2:15–3:45 p.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Madison

Author: David Quinn

2:15–3:45 p.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Gibson Suite

Authors: Taylor N. Allbright, Michelle Hall, Julie A. Marsh, Lawrence O. Picus

2:15–3:45 p.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Concourse Level, Concourse B Room

Authors: Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, Ian Edgar Thacker

2:15–3:45 p.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Fifth Floor, Westside Ballroom Salon 2

Authors: James Dean Ward, William G. Tierney

2:15–3:45 p.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Fifth Floor, Westside Ballroom Salon 2

Author: David Velasquez

4:05–5:35 p.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Fourth Floor, Wilder

Authors: Joseph Kitchen, Gwendelyn Rivera

4:05–5:35 p.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Fifth Floor, Westside Ballroom Salon 2

Authors: Nooshin Valizadeh, Helena Seli

4:05–5:35 p.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Fourth Floor, Gilbert

Author: Román Liera

4:05–6:05 p.m., Westin New York at Times Square, 8th Floor, Minetta

Chair: Zoë Corwin

Authors: Zoë Corwin, Suneal Kolluri, Antar A. Tichavakunda, William G. Tierney

 

POSTER SESSIONS

 

8:15–9:45 a.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Americas Hall 1-2 - Exhibit Hall

Author: Gale Sinatra

12:25–1:55 p.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Mercury Ballroom

Authors: Maxine T. Roberts, James Dean Ward

12:25–1:55 p.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Americas Hall 1-2 - Exhibit Hall

Author: Gale Sinatra

 

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Tuesday, April 17, 2018

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SPECIAL EVENT

8:15–9:45 a.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Beekman

Participant: William G. Tierney

 

OPEN SESSIONS

8:15–9:45 a.m., Sheraton New York Times Square, Second Floor, Empire Ballroom East

Chair: Lindsay Anne Kwock Hu

The Effects of Teacher Policy Reforms on Collective Bargaining Agreements and Teacher Employment

8:15–9:45 a.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Rendezvous Trianon

Author: Bradley Marianno

8:15–9:45 a.m., New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Rendezvous Trianon

Authors: Paul Bruno, Bradley Marianno

8:15–9:45 a.m., Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Fifth Floor, Room 5.02

Author: Gale Sinatra

8:15–9:45 a.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Fifth Floor, Westside Ballroom Salon 3

Authors: Gale Sinatra, Ian Thacker

12:25–1:55 p.m., Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Seventh Floor, Room 7.02-7.03

Author: Gale Sinatra

12:25–1:55 p.m., Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Seventh Floor, Room 7.02-7.03

Author: Gale Sinatra

10:35 a.m.–12:05 p.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Fourth Floor, O'Neill

Chair: Thomas J. DePaola

10:35 a.m.–12:05 p.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Fifth Floor, Westside Ballroom Salon 1

Chair: Elizabeth Marshall Holcombe

12:25–1:55 p.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Fifth Floor, Westside Ballroom Salon 1

Authors: Darnell G. Cole, Liane Hypolite, Marissiko M. Wheaton

2:15–3:45 p.m., Sheraton New York Times Square, Second Floor, Metropolitan West

Author: Adrian Huerta

 

POSTER SESSIONS

2:15–3:45 p.m., New York Marriott Marquis, Seventh Floor, Astor Ballroom

Session Type: Structured Poster Session

Author: Stephen Aguilar

 

This schedule was compiled by Ross Brenneman (Office of Communications) and 

Susan McKibben (Research Office).