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Schneider, Barbara – Educational Researcher, 2016
This essay briefly describes some of the early AERA presidents who were empiricists, several of them directors of research, and how their work connects with some of the issues of design, measurement, analysis, and interpretation today. Beginning with the first president of AERA, a number of presidents through the late 1940s are highlighted, as…
Descriptors: Presidents, Professional Associations, Educational Research, Administrator Attitudes
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Jenkins, John M. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2000
Discusses five lasting 20th-century education reforms: ability grouping, testing, district/school consolidation, vocational education, and specialization. The future seems aimed at personalized instruction, smaller schools, less differentiation between academic and vocational education, greater trust in local governance units, and philosophic…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education