SAGE is proud to publish the journals of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), a national research society which strives to advance knowledge about education, encourage scholarly inquiry, and promote the use of research to improve education and serve the public good.

Each year the AERA host the public Brown Lecture in Educational Research. Now in its 18th year, this year’s lecture will take place virtually on Thursday, October 21 from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. ET. The lecture will be delivered by Lori Patton Davis, professor of higher education and student affairs at Ohio State University. Patton Davis is an influential scholar known for her cross-cutting scholarship on African Americans in higher education, critical race theory, diversity initiatives on college campuses, Black girls and women in educational and social contexts, and college student development.

The lecture’s central inquiry will be “Why are we still climbing the hill of educational equity 67 years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education” and was inspired by the National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman’s poem “The Hill We Climb.

In her lecture, Lori Patton Davis will challenge dominant narratives surrounding Brown and introduce perspectives that might help account for our lack of progress. The lecture will consider pressing questions such as: How can we better understand racial inequalities in education by examining the circumstances that intensified the Covid-19 pandemic? How might a critical race lens guide educators, policymakers, and researchers toward a more progressive realization of the promises of Brown? How might education researchers engage in activism modeled after the work of communities still fighting for the racial and educational equity envisioned in Brown? 

Register to attend the lecture here (registration is free).

AERA’s mission is closely aligned with SAGE’s commitment to support diversity, equity and inclusion in wider society through our publishing activities. To mark the 18th Annual Brown Lecture, we invite you to explore articles from the journals of AERA related to the central inquiry of this year’s theme. The articles below are free to access until November 11, 2021.

Articles from American Educational Research Journal:

·        College Acceleration for All? Mapping Racial Gaps in Advanced Placement and Dual Enrollment Participation by Di Xu, Sabrina Solanki, and John Fink

·        Can Free Community College Close Racial Disparities in Postsecondary Attainment? How Tulsa Achieves Affects Racially Minoritized Student Outcomes by Elizabeth Bell and Denisa Gándara

Articles from Review of Educational Research:

·        Equity in Secondary Career and Technical Education in the United States: A Theoretical Framework and Systematic Literature Review by Elisabeth H. Kim, Clare Buckley Flack, Katharine Parham, and Priscilla Wohlstetter

·        “Decolonizing” Curriculum and Pedagogy: A Comparative Review Across Disciplines and Global Higher Education Contexts by Riyad A. Shahjahan, Annabelle L. Estera, Kristen L. Surla, and Kirsten T. Edwards

Articles from Educational Researcher:

·        Generation Interrupted: Rethinking “Students with Interrupted Formal Education” (SIFE) in the Wake of a Pandemic by Chris K. Chang-Bacon

·        Teachers Learning to Implement Equitable Classroom Talk by Bryant Jensen, Guadalupe Valdés, and Ronald Gallimore

Articles from Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis:

·        Improving Racial Equity in Community College: Developing a Plan, Implementing the Vision by Eric R. Felix

·        Do Low-Income Students Have Equal Access to Effective Teachers? by Eric Isenberg, Jeffrey Max, Philip Gleason, and Jonah Deutsch

Articles from Review of Research in Education:

·        Research Worth Using: (Re)Framing Research Evidence Quality for Educational Policymaking and Practice by Norma C. Ming and Lauren B. Goldenberg

·        Understanding Disability: High-Quality Evidence in Research on Special Education Disproportionality by Roey Ahram, Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides, and Rebecca A. Cruz

Articles from Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics:

·        Ordinal Approaches to Decomposing Between-Group Test Score Disparities by David M. Quinn and Andrew D. Ho

·        Cross-Classified Random Effects Modeling for Moderated Item Calibration by Seungwon Chung and Li Cai

Articles from AERA Open:

·        Disparities in Educational Access in the Time of COVID: Evidence From a Nationally Representative Panel of American Families by Shira K. Haderlein, Anna Rosefsky Saavedra, Morgan S. Polikoff, Daniel Silver, Amie Rapaport, and Marshall Garland

·        A QuantCrit Analysis of Context, Discipline, Special Education, and Disproportionality by Rebecca A. Cruz, Saili S. Kulkarni, and Allison R. Firestone