The National Academy of Education (NAEd) is a

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organization in the United States that advances high-quality research to improve education policy and practice. Founded in 1965, the NAEd currently consists of over 300 elected regular members, international associates, and emeriti. Members and international associates are elected based on the outstanding scholarship related to education and provide pro-bono service on committees that provide advice to policymakers and practitioners on pressing issues in education. In addition, Academy members and other scholars are also deeply engaged in NAEd’s professional development programs focused on preparing the next generation of education researchers. Since 1986, NAEd has administered the NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, and since 2011, NAEd has administered the NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program, both funded by

The Spencer Foundation The Spencer Foundation was established in 1962 by Lyle M. Spencer. This foundation makes grants to support research in areas of education that are widely construed. Founder Lyle M. Spencer was the founder of The Spencer Foundation. Spencer gre ...

Leadership

The National Academy of Education is governed by a nine-member board of directors. Current President of the Academy is Carol D. Lee.

Past Presidents

*1965-1969 Ralph W. Tyler *1969-1973

Lawrence A. Cremin Lawrence Arthur Cremin (October 31, 1925 – September 4, 1990) was an educational historian and administrator. Biography Cremin attended Townsend Harris High School in Queens, and then received his B.A. and M.A. from City College of New York. ...

*1973-1977

Patrick Suppes Patrick Colonel Suppes (; March 17, 1922 – November 17, 2014) was an American philosopher who made significant contributions to philosophy of science, the theory of measurement, the foundations of quantum mechanics, decision theory, psychology ...

*1977-1981 Stephen Bailey *1981-1985

Robert Glaser Robert Glaser (January 18, 1921 – February 4, 2012) was an American educational psychologist, who has made significant contributions to theories of learning and instruction. The key areas of his research focused on the nature of aptitudes and in ...

*1985-1989 Patricia Albjerg Graham *1989-1993

Lee Shulman Lee S. Shulman (born September 28, 1938) is an American educational psychologist and reformer. He has made notable contributions to the study of teaching, assessment of teaching, and the fields of medicine, science, and mathematics. Backgroun ...

*1993-1997 Carl F. Kaestle *1997-1998 Ann L. Brown *1998-2001 Ellen Condliffe Lagemann *2001-2005 Nel Noddings *2005-2009 Lorrie A. Shepard *2009-2013 Susan Fuhrman *2013-2017 Michael J. Feuer *2017-2021 Gloria Ladson-Billings *2021-Present Carol D. Lee

Research initiatives and publications

Current research initiatives

Evaluating and Improving Teacher Preparation Programs

Educating for Civic Reasoning and Discourse

Study on the Implementation and Use of Balanced Assessment Systems

Addressing Educational Inequities in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Examples of recent and featured reports

Reaping the Rewards of the IES Reading for Understanding (RfU) Initiative (2020)Study on Comparability of Large-Scale Educational Assessments (2020)

Big Data: Balancing Research Needs and Student Privacy (2017)Reaping the Rewards of Reading for Understanding (2020)
*Methods and Policy Uses of International Large-Scale Assessments (2018) *Global Migration, Diversity, and Civic Education: Improving Policy and Practice (2016) *Past as Prologue: The National Academy of Education at 50. Members Reflect. (2015) *Workshop to Examine Current and Potential Uses of NCES Longitudinal Surveys by the Education Research Community (2014) *Evaluation of teacher preparation programs: Purposes, methods, and policy options (2013) *Adaptive Educational Technologies: Tools for Learning, and for Learning About Learning (2013) *Getting Value Out of Value-Added: Report of a Workshop (2010)

Current NAEd members

Members

Deborah Ball Deborah Loewenberg Ball is an educational researcher noted for her work in mathematics instruction and the mathematical preparation of teachers. From 2017 to 2018 she serves as president of the American Educational Research Association. She serve ...

Michael McPherson
David Figlio
Na’ilah Nasir
Susan Fuhrman

Donna Shalala Donna Edna Shalala ( ; born February 14, 1941) is an American politician and academic who served in the Carter and Clinton administrations, as well as in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021. Shalala is a recipient of the Preside ...

Adam Gamoran Adam Gamoran (born 1957) is an American sociologist. Early life and education He obtained his Ph.D. in Sociology of Education from the University of Chicago in 1984. Career Until 2013 he had held the John D. MacArthur Chair in Sociology and Edu ...

Morty Schapiro Morty or Mortie is a masculine given name which may refer to: People * Morty Buckles (born 1971 or 1972), African-American former race car driver * Mortimer Morty Corb (1917–1996), American jazz double-bassist * Mortimer Mortie Dutra (1899-19 ...

Henrietta Mann Henrietta Mann (Southern Cheyenne, b. 1934) is a Native American academic and activist. She was one of the designers of the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Montana and Haskell Indian Nations University's Native American ...

James Spillane James Spillane is an American Republican Party of New Hampshire, Republican politician. He serves in the New Hampshire House of Representatives in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, Rockingham County alongside Jason Osborne (politician), Jason Osbo ...

Kent McGuire Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it fac ...

Deborah Stipek Deborah Stipek is the Judy Koch Professor of Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) and a professor by courtesy of psychology. She also serves as the Peter E. Haas Faculty Director of the Haas Center for Public Service at Sta ...

Bruce Alberts Bruce Michael Alberts (born April 14, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American biochemist and the Chancellor’s Leadership Chair in Biochemistry and Biophysics for Science and Education, Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisc ...

James D. Anderson

Alexander Astin Alexander W. Astin (May 30, 1932 – May 18, 2022) was the Allan M. Cartter Distinguished Professor of Higher Education and Organizational Change, at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was founding director of the Higher Education Re ...

Ron Avi Astor
Richard Atkinson
Thomas Bailey
Eva Baker
Deborah Loewenberg Ball
James A. Banks
W. Steven Barnett

Hyman Bass Hyman Bass (; born October 5, 1932). The conjecture is named for Hyman Bass and Daniel Quillen, who formulated the c ... References External links *Directory page at University of MichiganAuthor profilein the database zbMATH {{DEFAUL ...

Randy Bennett Randall William Bennett (born June 9, 1962) is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at Saint Mary's College of California. He led the team to several second-place finishes and seven NCAA tournament ap ...

David Berliner David C. Berliner is an educational psychologist. He was professor and dean of the Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education. Biography After a B.A. in psychology from U.C.L.A. and an M.A. in psychology from California State Uni ...

Hilda Borko

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (born 1946, in Bethesda, Maryland) is an American developmental psychologist and professor. She is currently the Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development at Teachers College, Columbia University. Education Bro ...

John Brown
Anthony Bryk
Eamonn Callan
Prudence Carter
Stephen J. Ceci
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
Michelene T.H. Chi
Paul Cobb
Marilyn Cochran-Smith
David Cohen
Michael Cole
James P. Comer

Lambros Comitas Lambros Comitas (September 29, 1927 – March 5, 2020) was Gardner Cowles Professor of Anthropology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. A product of Columbia University, he received the A.B. from Columbia College in 1948 after ...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi (, hu, Csíkszentmihályi Mihály Róbert, ; 29 September 1934 – 20 October 2021) was a Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental ...

William Damon

Linda Darling-Hammond Linda Darling-Hammond (December 21, 1951) is an American academic who is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. She was also the President and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute. Sh ...

Andrea diSessa
Greg Duncan

Jacquelynne Eccles Jacquelynne Sue Eccles (born 1944) is an American educational psychologist. She is the Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of California, Irvine and formerly the McKeachie/Pintrich Distinguished University Professor of Psycholo ...

Margaret Eisenhart
Richard Elmore
Frederick Erickson
Michael Feuer
Robert Floden
Sarah Freedman
Susan Fuhrman

Patricia Gandara

Howard Gardner Howard Earl Gardner (born July 11, 1943) is an American developmental psychologist and the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. He is curr ...

James Paul Gee James Gee (; born April 15, 1948) is a retired American researcher who has worked in psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, bilingual education, and literacy. Gee most recently held the position as the Mary Lou Fulton Preside ...

Carol Gilligan Carol Gilligan (; born November 28, 1936) is an American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist, best known for her work on ethical community and ethical relationships. Gilligan is a professor of Humanities and Applied Psychology at New York Uni ...

Susan Goldman
Louis Gomez
Thomas Good
Edmund W. Gordon
Sandra Graham

Hanna Holborn Gray Hanna Holborn Gray (born October 25, 1930) is an American historian of Renaissance and Reformation political thought and Professor of History ''Emerita'' at the University of Chicago. She served as president of the University of Chicago, from 197 ...

Pamela Grossman
John Guthrie
Kris Gutiérrez

Amy Gutmann Amy Gutmann (born November 19, 1949) is an American academic and diplomat who is the United States Ambassador to Germany. She was the eighth president of the University of Pennsylvania. In November 2016, the school announced that her contract ...

Edward Haertel
Kenji Hakuta

Eric Hanushek Eric Alan Hanushek (; born May 22, 1943) is an economist who has written prolifically on public policy with a special emphasis on the economics of education. Since 2000, he has been a Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a ...

Robert M. Hauser Robert Mason Hauser is an American sociologist. He is the Vilas Research and Samuel F. Stouffer professor of sociology emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he served as director of the Institute for Research on Poverty and the ...

Shirley Brice Heath Shirley Brice Heath (born 26 July 1939) is an American linguistic anthropologist, and Professor Emerita, Margery Bailey Professorship in English, at Stanford University. She graduated from Lynchburg College, Ball State University, and Columbia ...

Larry V. Hedges Larry Vernon Hedges is a researcher in statistical methods for meta-analysis and evaluation of education policy. He is Professor of Statistics and Education and Social Policy, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University. Previously, he ...

Jeffrey Henig
Joan Herman
Andrew Ho
Paul Holland
Glynda Hull
Jacqueline Irvine
Kirabo Jackson
Jack Jennings
Susan Johnson
Carl Kaestle
Sharon Kagan
David Kaplan
James Kelly

Walter Kintsch Walter Kintsch (born 1932) is an American Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Colorado Boulder ( United States). He is renowned for his groundbreaking theories in cognitive psychology, especially in relation to text comprehens ...

David L. Kirp David Kirp is a professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, a member of the National Academy of Education, a contributing writer to ''The New York Times'' and a senior scholar at the Learning Policy ...

Michael W. Kirst Michael W. Kirst (born August 1, 1939) is Professor ''Emeritus'' of Education (and Business Administration by courtesy) at Stanford University and the longest serving President of California's State Board of Education. Kirst served as President o ...

David Klahr
Daniel Koretz
Deanna Kuhn
Helen Ladd
Gloria Ladson-Billings
Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
Magdalene Lampert
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Carol Lee
Valerie Lee
Richard Lehrer
Hope Leichter
Henry Levin
Richard Light

Marcia Linn Marcia C. Linn (née Cyrog) is a professor of development and cognition. Linn, specializes in education in mathematics, science, and technology in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1970, Linn has ...

Judith Warren Little

Susanna Loeb Susanna Loeb is an American education economist and director of the Annenberg Institute at Brown University. She was previously the Barnett Family Professor of Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, where she also served as found ...

K. Tsianina Lomawaima K. Tsianina Lomawaima (born 1955) is an interdisciplinary researcher of Indigenous Studies, anthropology, history, and political science. She is a professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. She specializes in th ...

Dan Lortie
Henrietta Mann
Kathleen McCartney
Lorraine Mcdonnell
Milbrey Mclaughlin
Michael McPherson
Douglas Medin
Hugh Mehan
Deborah Meier

John W. Meyer John Wilfred Meyer (born 1935) is a sociologist and emeritus professor at Stanford University. Beginning in the 1970s and continuing to the present day, Meyer has contributed fundamental ideas to the field of sociology, especially in the areas o ...

Jeffrey Mirel
Robert Mislevy
Elizabeth Moje
Luis Moll
Pamela Moss

Richard Murnane Richard John Murnane (born 1945) is an economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write ...

Anna Neumann
Sonia Nieto
Nel Noddings
Pedro Noguera
Jeannie Oakes
Michael Olivas

Gary Orfield Gary may refer to: *Gary (given name), a common masculine given name, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name *Gary, Indiana, the largest city named Gary Places ;Iran *Gary, Iran, Sistan and Baluchestan Province ;Unit ...

Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar

Roy Pea Roy D. Pea is David Jacks Professor of Learning Sciences and Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He has extensively published works in the field of the Learning Sciences and on learning technology design and made significant ...

David Pearson
James Pellegrino
David Perkins
Paul Peterson
Penelope Peterson
Andrew C. Porter

Alejandro Portes Alejandro Portes (born October 13, 1944) is a Cuban-American sociologist. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and of the Board of Trustees and the Scientific Council at the IMDEA Social Sciences ...

Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

Stephen Raudenbush Stephen Webb Raudenbush (born 1946) is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Sociology and Chairman of the Committee on Education at the University of Chicago. He is best known for his development and application of hierarchical linear models (HLM) ...

Diane Ravitch

Sean Reardon Sean F. Reardon is an American sociologist who currently serves as the Endowed Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, where he also is a member of the Steering Committee of the Center for Ed ...

William J. Reese
Lauren Resnick

Barbara Rogoff Barbara Rogoff is an American academic who is UCSC Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research is in different learning between cultures and bridges psychology and anthropology. Education and c ...

Mike Rose

Cecilia Rouse Cecilia Elena Rouse ( ; born December18, 1963) is an American economist who has served as the 30th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers since March 2021. She is the first Black American to hold this position. Prior to this, she served as t ...

Brian Rowan
Robert Rueda
Rubén G. Rumbaut
Russell Rumberger
Geoffrey Saxe

Marlene Scardamalia Marlene Scardamalia is an education researcher, professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Contributions She is considered one of the pioneers in computer-supported collaborative learning. Other areas of r ...

Leona Schauble
William Schmidt
Barbara Schneider
Alan Schoenfeld
Robert Schwartz

Lorrie Shepard

Robert S. Siegler
Judith Singer
Diana Slaughter Kotzin

Robert Slavin Robert Edward Slavin (September 17, 1950 – April 24, 2021) was an American psychologist who studied educational and academic issues. He was known for the ''Success for All'' educational model. Until his death, he was a distinguished professor ...

Marshall Smith
Catherine E. Snow
Margaret Beale Spencer
James Spillane

Claude Steele Claude Mason Steele (born January 1, 1946) is a social psychologist and emeritus professor at Stanford University, where he is the I. James Quillen Endowed Dean, Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, and Lucie Stern Professor ...

Robert Sternberg Robert J. Sternberg (born December 8, 1949) is an American psychologist and psychometrician. He is Professor of Human Development at Cornell University. Sternberg has a BA from Yale University and a PhD from Stanford University, under advisor ...

James Stigler

Carola Suárez-Orozco
Marcelo Suárez-Orozco
William F. Tate IV

David S. Tatel David S. Tatel (born March 16, 1942) is an American lawyer who serves as a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Education and career Tatel received his Bachelor of Arts ...

Marta Tienda
William Tierney
Judith Torney-Purta
Guadalupe Valdes
Deborah Vandell
Maris Vinovskis
Noreen Webb

Bernard Weiner Bernard Weiner (born 1935) is an American social psychologist known for developing a form of attribution theory which seeks to explain the emotional and motivational entailments of academic success and failure. His contributions include linking ...

Lois Weis
Roger Weissberg
Amy Stuart Wells
Clifton Wharton

Carl Wieman Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, 1951) is an American physicist and educationist at Stanford University, and currently the A.D White Professor at Large at Cornell University. In 1995, while at the University of Colorado Boulder, he and Eric All ...

John Willett

William Julius Wilson William Julius Wilson (born December 20, 1935) is an American sociologist. He is a professor at Harvard University and author of works on urban sociology, race and class issues. Laureate of the National Medal of Science, he served as the 80th P ...

Mark Wilson
Suzanne Wilson

Sam Wineburg Samuel S. Wineburg (born 1958) is an American educational and cognitive psychologist. He is the Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of History & American Studies emeritus at Stanford University. Since the 1990s, Wineburg ha ...

Carol Camp Yeakey
Hirokazu Yoshikawa
Kenneth Zeichner

Members emeriti

Anthony Alvarado
Richard C. Anderson
Isabel Beck

Carl Bereiter Carl Edward Bereiter (born 1930) is an American education researcher, professor emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto known for his research into knowledge building. Biography He was born and raised i ...

Derek Bok Derek Curtis Bok (born March 22, 1930) is an American lawyer and educator, and the former president of Harvard University. Life and career Bok was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Following his parents' divorce, he, his mother, brother and sist ...

John D. Bransford John D. Bransford (December 14, 1943 - April 11, 2022) was an emeritus professor of education at the University of Washington College of Education in Seattle, Washington. He was the Founding Director of The Learning in Informal and Formal Environm ...

John Seely Brown John Seely Brown (born 1940), also known as "JSB", is an American researcher who specializes in organizational studies with a particular bend towards the organizational implications of computer-supported activities. Brown served as Director of X ...

Martin Carnoy Martin Carnoy is an American labour economist and Vida Jacks Professor of Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Education as well as of the International Academy of Education. Pr ...

Courtney Cazden
Daryl Chubin
Charles T. Clotfelter
Allan M. Collins
K. Patricia Cross
Larry Cuban
Robert Dreeben

Ronald G. Ehrenberg Ronald Gordon Ehrenberg is an American economist. He has primarily worked in the field of labor economics including the economics of higher education. Currently, he is Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics at ...

Edgar Epps
Elizabeth Fennema
David P. Gardner

Herbert Ginsburg
Gene V. Glass

Patricia Graham Patricia Albjerg Graham is a historian of American education. She began her teaching career in Deep Creek, Virginia, and went on to become a lecturer at Indiana University, professor of history and education at Barnard College and TC, Columbia ...

James Heckman James Joseph Heckman (born April 19, 1944) is a Nobel Prize-winning American economist at the University of Chicago, where he is The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College; Professor at the Harris School of Pu ...

Jeremy Kilpatrick
Judith Lanier
Marvin Lazerson
Robert Levine

James G. March James Gardner March (January 15, 1928 – September 27, 2018) was an American political scientist, sociologist, and economist. A professor at Stanford University in the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Graduate School of Edu ...

Wilbert J. McKeachie
Robert Moses
Harold J. Noah
Denis Phillips
Thomas A. Romberg
Sheldon Rothblatt

Richard Shavelson Richard J. Shavelson is an educational psychologist who has published over 100 research articles and books in the fields of educational assessment, psychology, and science education. He is an emeritus professor in the Stanford Graduate School of Edu ...

Kenneth Strike
Finis Welch

International associates

* Rami Benbenishty * Michael Fullan *David Olson * Manabu Sato * Anna Sfard * Yossi Shavit * J. Douglas Willms

International associates emeriti

* Paul Black * Erik De Corte * Kieran Egan * Guy Neave * Sidney Strauss

References

External links

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