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Well, another edition of AERA is in the books - rather, online at ERIC. Here are a few comments and notes:

                                        

1. The Moscone Center was a great venue for the event. It housed a vast majority of the sessions and meetings. Surrounding hotels did have to pick up some of the slack, but when they did, their facilities were excellent as well. If you are in San Francisco anytime soon be sure to check out the 2nd floor lobby of the Marriott. It was stunning.

2. As the law is concerned, there were not too many sessions, and I hope for more next year. There were good presentations on Title IX, the Fourth Amendment, Affirmative Action, and especially on religion. There were at least 3 presentations on religion that are worth checking out from the law SIG sessions. All the presenters seemed to conclude this years shakeup in the Supreme Court will lead to significant changes in the tests being applied to issues under the Establishment Clause.

3. The Law and Education SIG business meeting was especially informative. Not only were there great presentations (although this Edjurist wishes Gary Orfield would have spoke more as his wisdom and penchant toward action was clearly visible), but the content of the business meeting itself was interesting. First, there are significant numbers in the SIG, 135 paid members. Further, because of the new AERA system for dolling out sessions, a high number of law proposals will lead to a higher number of sessions. So Edjurists of the world need to get their proposals in on time and think about multiple proposals.

4. For the current graduate and law students out there, there will be an annual award, the Emerging Scholar Award, for the best student proposal. This year it went to Joseph Oluwole, a student a Penn State. Congrats. For all others, get the submissions in next year. You can only win if you are accepted and write the paper.

5. Next year, I would love to see the Edjurist population challenged more. I missed the Christopher Edley presentation (if any readers saw it please trackback with some comments), but the law SIG presentations, while very informative, did not challenge the Edjurist population to examine any problems and propose legal solutions. Having attended ELA and UCEA this is something we generally need to do more of across all these presentation opportunities.

Well, that is it for now. Comments are welcome.



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