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

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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 * 1973-1977

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* 1977-1981 Stephen Bailey * 1981-1985 Robert Glaser * 1985-1989 Patricia Albjerg Graham * 1989-1993 Lee Shulman * 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
Michael McPherson
David Figlio
Na’ilah Nasir
Susan Fuhrman
Donna Shalala
Adam Gamoran
Morty Schapiro
Henrietta Mann
James Spillane
Kent McGuire
Deborah Stipek

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

James D. Anderson
Alexander Astin
Ron Avi Astor
Richard Atkinson
Thomas Bailey
Eva Baker
Deborah Loewenberg Ball
James A. Banks
W. Steven Barnett
Hyman Bass

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 has led the team nine NCAA tournament appearances, regular season confere ...

David Berliner
Marina Bers
br /> Hilda Borko
Henry Braun
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
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
William Damon
Linda Darling-Hammond
Andrea diSessa
Greg Duncan
Jacquelynne Eccles
Margaret Eisenhart
Richard Elmore
Frederick Erickson
Michael Feuer
Robert Floden
Sarah Freedman
Susan Fuhrman
Adam Gamoran
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 Harvard University. He was a founding member of Harvard Project Zero in 1967 ...

James Paul Gee
Carol Gilligan
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 10th president of the University of Chicago fro ...

Pamela Grossman
John Guthrie
Kris Gutiérrez

Amy Gutmann Amy Gutmann (; born November 19, 1949) is an American academic and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Germany from 2022 to 2024. She was previously the 8th president of the University of Pennsylvania from 2004 to 2022, th ...

Edward Haertel
Kenji Hakuta

Eric Hanushek Eric Alan Hanushek (; born May 22, 1943) is an American 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 Inst ...

Robert M. Hauser
Shirley Brice Heath
Larry V. Hedges
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 (May 30, 1932 – March 24, 2023) was an American psychologist and academic who was professor emeritus of Psychology at the University of Colorado Boulder (United States). He was renowned for his groundbreaking theories in cognitive ...

David L. Kirp
Michael W. Kirst
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
Judith Warren Little
Susanna Loeb
K. Tsianina Lomawaima
Dan Lortie
Henrietta Mann
Kathleen McCartney
Lorraine Mcdonnell
Milbrey Mclaughlin
Douglas Medin
Hugh Mehan
Deborah Meier
John W. Meyer
Jeffrey Mirel
Robert Mislevy
Elizabeth Moje
Luis Moll
Pamela Moss
Richard Murnane
Anna Neumann
Sonia Nieto
Nel Noddings
Pedro Noguera
Jeannie Oakes
Michael Olivas
Gary Orfield
Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar
Roy Pea
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 Science ...

Sophia Rabe-Hesketh
Stephen Raudenbush
Diane Ravitch
Sean Reardon
William J. Reese
Lauren Resnick
Barbara Rogoff
Mike Rose
Cecilia Rouse
Brian Rowan
Robert Rueda
Rubén G. Rumbaut
Russell Rumberger
Geoffrey Saxe
Marlene Scardamalia
Leona Schauble
William Schmidt
Barbara Schneider

Alan Schoenfeld Alan Henry Schoenfeld (born July 9, 1947) is an American mathematics education researcher, consultant, and theorist. He was the Elizabeth and Edward Conner Professor of Education and Affiliated Professor of Mathematics at the University of Califo ...

Robert Schwartz
Donna Shalala
Lorrie Shepard
Robert S. Siegler
Judith Singer
Diana Slaughter Kotzin
Robert Slavin
Marshall Smith
Catherine E. Snow
Daniel G. Solórzano
Margaret Beale Spencer
James Spillane
Claude Steele

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

James Stigler
Deborah Stipek
Carola Suárez-Orozco
Marcelo Suárez-Orozco
William F. Tate IV
David S. Tatel
Marta Tienda
William Tierney
Judith Torney-Purta
Guadalupe Valdes
Deborah Vandell
Maris Vinovskis
Matthias von Davier
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
John Willett
William Julius Wilson
Mark Wilson
Suzanne Wilson
Sam Wineburg
Carol Camp Yeakey
Hirokazu Yoshikawa
Kenneth Zeichner

Members emeriti

Anthony Alvarado

Richard C. Anderson Richard C. Anderson (born 1934) is an American educational psychologist who has published influential research on children's reading, vocabulary growth, and story discussions that promote thinking. He is the director of the Center for the Study of ...

Isabel Beck
Carl Bereiter
Derek Bok
John D. Bransford
John Seely Brown
Martin Carnoy
Courtney Cazden
Daryl Chubin
Charles T. Clotfelter

Allan M. Collins Allan M. Collins is an American Cognitive Science, cognitive scientist, Professor Emeritus of Learning Sciences at Northwestern University, Northwestern University's School of Education and Social Policy. His research is recognized as having broad ...

K. Patricia Cross

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Robert Dreeben
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Edgar Epps
Elizabeth Fennema
David P. Gardner

Herbert Ginsburg
Gene V. Glass
Patricia Graham
James Heckman
Jeremy Kilpatrick
Judith Lanier
Marvin Lazerson
Robert Levine
James G. March
Wilbert J. McKeachie
Robert Moses
Harold J. Noah
Denis Phillips
Thomas A. Romberg
Sheldon Rothblatt
Richard Shavelson
Lee Shulman
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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