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Making the Most of the First Day at AERA
by Frederick M. Hess • Apr 29, 2010 at 9:20 am
Cross-posted from Education Week
Cross-posted from Education Week
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Tomorrow, the nation's education researchers, professors, and such will convene in Denver for the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association. If you're going to be in Denver and want to catch up, on Friday and Saturday I'll be at Marlowe's co-hosting the "School Reform Café" from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. with my pal Van Schoales, executive director of Education Reform Now (the non-political counterpart to Democrats for Education Reform). We're expecting pop-ins from an illustrious list of friends like Patrick Wolf, Mark Schneider, Susanna Loeb, Adam Gamoran, Laura LoGerfo, Jeff Henig, Richard Ingersoll, Jal Mehta, Richard Lee Colvin, Heather Zavadsky, various Denver school reformers, and so on. I hope you'll feel free to swing by and join us.
For those folks who will be in Denver but are eager to take the whole business of conference sessions more literally, I'm happy to provide the following cheat sheet to help flag the must-see sessions for Friday, AERA's first day. (The real work here was done by my pseudonymous colleague Francesca Pickett, who finds it advisable to keep her actual identity under wraps in these matters.) Remember, the following are just from the Friday line-up; this is intended only to get you started.
While the formal theme for this year's AERA conference is "Understanding Complex Ecologies in a Changing
