WASHINGTON, March 22, 2010—The American Educational Research Association (AERA) announces publication of the 2010 edition of Review of Research in Education (RRE). Edited by Allan Luke, Queensland University of Technology, Australia; Judith Green, University of California, Santa Barbara; and Gregory J. Kelly, Pennsylvania State University, the newly-published RRE addresses the persistence of educational inequality, described by the three editors as "the most durable and robust problem facing education research since mid-20th century."
The contributing authors take a fresh look at issues of educational equity and reform as they examine varied types of evidence in education research across a broad range of educational issues, and how that evidence can be used to shape regional, national, and international educational policies on equity and inclusion. Entitled "What Counts as Evidence in Educational Settings? Rethinking Equity, Diversity, and Reform in the 21st Century," the new RRE is the 34th volume of this peer-reviewed publication.
The authors acknowledge a world in which diverse populations often face patterns of educational exclusion and marginalization. This volume scrutinizes different forms of evidence and focuses on the different ways of naming and defining, explaining and framing equality and inequality. Luke, Green, and Kelly note that "educational policy and practice committed to equity and social justice requires something more than approaches to accountability reliant on narrow measurement and performance indicators." The editors state that "to address questions of equity requires rich, interpretive, and evolving sciences."
Contributors to this volume of RRE are Lora Bartlett, University of California, Santa Cruz; Lauren Beresford, University of California, Berkeley; Katherine Headrick Taylor, Vanderbilt University; Will J. Jordan, Temple University; James G. Ladwig, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia; Kevin M. Leander, Vanderbilt University; Judith Warren Little, University of California, Berkeley; Samuel R. Lucas, University of California, Berkeley; Tina Matuchniak, University of California, Irvine; Nathan C. Phillips, Vanderbilt University; Gail L. Sunderman, George Washington University; Mark Warschauer, University of California, Irvine; Kevin Welner, University of Colorado, Boulder; Dylan Wiliam, Institute of Education, University of London; and Alexander W. Wiseman, Lehigh University.
RRE is available online through Sage Publications at http://rre.sagepub.com/content/vol34/issue1/
To interview the editors, contact Professor Luke at a2.luke@qut.edu.au or 07-387-08353; Professor Green at green@education.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-4781; and Professor Kelly at gkelly@psu.edu or (814) 865-2966.
To reach AERA Communications, call (202)238-3200; Helaine Patterson (hpatterson@aera.net) or Lucy Cunningham (lcunningham@aera.net).
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) is the national interdisciplinary research association for approximately 25,000 scholars who undertake research in education. Founded in 1916, AERA aims to advance knowledge about education, to encourage scholarly inquiry related to education, and to promote the use of research to improve education and serve the public good.