Inaugural Editors:

Mark Warschauer Editor-in-Chief University of California, Irvine

Greg J. Duncan Co-Editor University of California, Irvine

Jacquelynne Eccles Co-Editor University of California, Irvine

Meet the AERA Open Editors

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Inaugural Associate Editors:

Daniel Bolt University of Wisconsin-Madison Carol Connor Arizona State University George Farkas University of California, Irvine Louis Gomez University of California, Los Angeles Mary Helen Immordino-Yang University of Southern California

Eva Lam Northwestern University Laura Perna University of Pennsylvania Robert Pianta University of Virginia Rubén G. Rumbaut University of California, Irvine Helen Watt Monash University

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Meet the AERA Open Editors

Mark Warschauer is a professor of education and informatics at University of California, Irvine (UCI) and associate dean of UCI’s School of Education. He has extensive publishing experience as an author and editor, and is the founding editor of the successful open access journal Language Learning & Technology. Warschauer’s research focuses on technology in learning and its relationship to educational achievement and equity among diverse learners in fields ranging from language and literacy to STEM.

He is also the director of the Digital Learning Lab at UCI, which focuses on a wide range of projects for both K–12 education and higher learning. Under Warschauer’s leadership, the lab has studied such innovative topics as the impact of virtual learning on student achievement and the use of interactive mobile robots for virtual inclusion. He is author of Learning in the Cloud: How (and Why) to Transform Schools With Digital Media.

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Greg J. Duncan is a Distinguished Professor at UCI’s School of Education. His research focuses on the effects of families, peers, schools, neighborhoods, and public policy on the life chances of children and adolescents. In particular, he is interested in the relative importance of early academic skills, cognitive and emotional self-regulation, and health in promoting children’s eventual success in school and the labor market.

For the first 25 years of his career at the University of Michigan, Duncan worked on and ultimately directed the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. He has served as president of the Population Association of America and the Society for Research in Child Development. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Education. In recognition of his contributions to understanding child and youth development, he was awarded the 2013 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize.

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Jacquelynne Eccles, also a Distinguished Professor at UCI’s School of Education, is well known for her work on adolescence. Her research has focused on adolescent and student development, including classroom influences on student motivation, teachers’ expectations, the social development of students, and gender-role socialization. She has served as editor for many highly ranked journals, including Developmental Psychology, where she was the lead editor.

 

In addition, she has served as president of the Society for Research on Adolescence, member of the Governing Board of the National Academy of Education, associate editor of Child Development, associate editor Research on Human Development, and editor of Journal of Research on Adolescence. Most recently, Eccles won the American Psychological Association’s 2013 Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in Psychology in the Public Interest.

 

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