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Vanderbilt University professor Ellen Goldring has been appointed editor-in-chief of the American Educational Research Association’s flagship publication, the "American Educational Research Journal." She will head the editorial team for the journal's 2020–22 volume years. Read More

A new Vanderbilt study finds that a pre-college advising program in high schools increases community college enrollment for Hispanic students of all income levels and low-income students in general. The paper is published in the "Journal of Policy Analysis and Management." Read More

The conference is the world’s largest gathering of education scholars and a showcase for groundbreaking, innovative research. Read More

Vanderbilt education researchers will present their work at the American Educational Research Association’s annual meeting in Toronto April 5–9. Read More

This year’s survey, open from March 5 to April 19, 2019, includes topics such as educator evaluations, school climate and professional learning. Read More

A new research brief from the Tennessee Education Research Alliance finds that principal quality varies greatly from school to school in Tennessee and effective principals are not distributed equally in schools across the state. Read More

Vanderbilt University has increased its presence in "Education Week’s" annual listing of the most influential public scholars in education. Read More

Vanderbilt School of Medicine and Peabody College have established a transinstitutional Policies for Action Research Hub to better understand and develop recommendations to address the needs of some of Tennessee’s most vulnerable children, including those in immigrant families and with prenatal exposure to opioids. Read More

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam announced the participants selected for the 2019 Governor’s Academy for School Leadership, a partnership with Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development. Read More

A Vanderbilt study finds that teachers of color are more likely to transfer schools than White teachers, especially when they are racially isolated. Read More

Researchers evaluated Tennessee's online course that students complete during high school to avoid taking remedial math in college. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers will establish a new research hub to better understand the needs of some of some of Tennessee’s most vulnerable children. Read More

Vanderbilt's Shaun M. Dougherty will help lead the Career and Technical Education Research Network, a new IES-funded research project. Read More

Principals with higher performance ratings are much more likely to retain higher-performing teachers and move out low performers, according to a new Vanderbilt study. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development will kick off its annual Leadership Policy and Organizations Department Colloquium Series on Sept. 19, with events continuing throughout the fall and spring. Read More

Principals and districts benefit when principal supervisors move beyond the role of administrator to coach and mentor, according to a new Vanderbilt University report. Read More

After five years of implementation, iZone schools continue to show positive gains on student achievement while the students in the Achievement School District did not gain more or less than comparison schools. Read More

Student achievement gains are higher in schools where principals’ leadership practices are rated more positively by their supervisors, according to a new brief. Read More

The AERA annual conference, “The Dreams, Possibilities and Necessity of Public Education,” will be held in New York City. Read More

Vanderbilt’s ninth cohort of Humphrey Fellows will travel to East Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains April 6–8. Read More