National Academy of Education

The National Academy of Education (NAEd) is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization in the United States that advances high-quality research to improve education policy and practice. Founded in 1965, the NAEd currently consists of over 300 elected regular members, international associates, and emeriti. Members and international associates are elected based on the outstanding scholarship related to education and provide pro-bono service on committees that provide advice to policymakers and practitioners on pressing issues in education. In addition, Academy members and other scholars are also deeply engaged in NAEd’s professional development programs focused on preparing the next generation of education researchers. Since 1986, NAEd has administered the NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, and since 2011, NAEd has administered the NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program, both funded by The Spencer Foundation.

Leadership
The National Academy of Education is governed by a nine-member board of directors. Current President of the Academy is Carol D. Lee.

Past Presidents

 * 1965-1969             Ralph W. Tyler
 * 1969-1973             Lawrence A. Cremin
 * 1973-1977             Patrick Suppes
 * 1977-1981             Stephen Bailey
 * 1981-1985             Robert Glaser
 * 1985-1989             Patricia Albjerg Graham
 * 1989-1993             Lee Shulman
 * 1993-1997             Carl F. Kaestle
 * 1997-1998             Ann L. Brown
 * 1998-2001             Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
 * 2001-2005             Nel Noddings
 * 2005-2009             Lorrie A. Shepard
 * 2009-2013             Susan Fuhrman
 * 2013-2017             Michael J. Feuer
 * 2017-2021             Gloria Ladson-Billings
 * 2021-Present                          Carol D. Lee

Current research initiatives

 * Evaluating and Improving Teacher Preparation Programs
 * Educating for Civic Reasoning and Discourse
 * Study on the Implementation and Use of Balanced Assessment Systems
 * Addressing Educational Inequities in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Examples of recent and featured reports

 * Reaping the Rewards of the IES Reading for Understanding (RfU) Initiative (2020)
 * Study on Comparability of Large-Scale Educational Assessments (2020)
 * Big Data: Balancing Research Needs and Student Privacy (2017)
 * Reaping the Rewards of Reading for Understanding (2020)
 * Methods and Policy Uses of International Large-Scale Assessments (2018)
 * Global Migration, Diversity, and Civic Education: Improving Policy and Practice (2016)
 * Past as Prologue: The National Academy of Education at 50. Members Reflect. (2015)
 * Workshop to Examine Current and Potential Uses of NCES Longitudinal Surveys by the Education Research Community (2014)
 * Evaluation of teacher preparation programs: Purposes, methods, and policy options (2013)
 * Adaptive Educational Technologies: Tools for Learning, and for Learning About Learning (2013)
 * Getting Value Out of Value-Added: Report of a Workshop (2010)

Members
Deborah Ball

Michael McPherson

David Figlio

Na’ilah Nasir

Susan Fuhrman

Donna Shalala

Adam Gamoran

Morty Schapiro

Henrietta Mann

James Spillane

Kent McGuire

Deborah Stipek

Bruce Alberts

James D. Anderson

Alexander Astin

Ron Avi Astor

Richard Atkinson

Thomas Bailey

Eva Baker

Deborah Loewenberg Ball

James A. Banks

W. Steven Barnett

Hyman Bass

Randy Bennett

David Berliner

Marina Bers

Hilda Borko

Henry Braun

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

John Brown

Anthony Bryk

Eamonn Callan

Prudence Carter

Stephen J. Ceci

P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

Michelene T.H. Chi

Paul Cobb

Marilyn Cochran-Smith

David Cohen

Michael Cole

James P. Comer

Lambros Comitas

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

William Damon

Linda Darling-Hammond

Andrea diSessa

Greg Duncan

Jacquelynne Eccles

Margaret Eisenhart

Richard Elmore

Frederick Erickson

Michael Feuer

Robert Floden

Sarah Freedman

Susan Fuhrman

Adam Gamoran

Patricia Gandara

Howard Gardner

James Paul Gee

Carol Gilligan

Susan Goldman

Louis Gomez

Thomas Good

Edmund W. Gordon

Sandra Graham

Hanna Holborn Gray

Pamela Grossman

John Guthrie

Kris Gutiérrez

Amy Gutmann

Edward Haertel

Kenji Hakuta

Eric Hanushek

Robert M. Hauser

Shirley Brice Heath

Larry V. Hedges

Jeffrey Henig

Joan Herman

Andrew Ho

Paul Holland

Glynda Hull

Jacqueline Irvine

Kirabo Jackson

Jack Jennings

Susan Johnson

Carl Kaestle

Sharon Kagan

David Kaplan

James Kelly

Walter Kintsch

David L. Kirp

Michael W. Kirst

David Klahr

Daniel Koretz

Deanna Kuhn

Helen Ladd

Gloria Ladson-Billings

Ellen Condliffe Lagemann

Magdalene Lampert

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Carol Lee

Valerie Lee

Richard Lehrer

Hope Leichter

Henry Levin

Richard Light

Marcia Linn

Judith Warren Little

Susanna Loeb

K. Tsianina Lomawaima

Dan Lortie

Henrietta Mann

Kathleen McCartney

Lorraine Mcdonnell

Milbrey Mclaughlin

Michael McPherson

Douglas Medin

Hugh Mehan

Deborah Meier

John W. Meyer

Jeffrey Mirel

Robert Mislevy

Elizabeth Moje

Luis Moll

Pamela Moss

Richard Murnane

Anna Neumann

Sonia Nieto

Nel Noddings

Pedro Noguera

Jeannie Oakes

Michael Olivas

Gary Orfield

Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar

Roy Pea

David Pearson

James Pellegrino

David Perkins

Paul Peterson

Penelope Peterson

Andrew C. Porter

Alejandro Portes

Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

Stephen Raudenbush

Diane Ravitch

Sean Reardon

William J. Reese

Lauren Resnick

Barbara Rogoff

Mike Rose

Cecilia Rouse

Brian Rowan

Robert Rueda

Rubén G. Rumbaut

Russell Rumberger

Geoffrey Saxe

Marlene Scardamalia

Leona Schauble

William Schmidt

Barbara Schneider

Alan Schoenfeld

Robert Schwartz

Donna Shalala

Lorrie Shepard

Lee Shulman

Robert S. Siegler

Judith Singer

Diana Slaughter Kotzin

Robert Slavin

Marshall Smith

Catherine E. Snow

Daniel G. Solórzano

Margaret Beale Spencer

James Spillane

Claude Steele

Robert Sternberg

James Stigler

Deborah Stipek

Carola Suárez-Orozco

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco

William F. Tate IV

David S. Tatel

Marta Tienda

William Tierney

Judith Torney-Purta

Guadalupe Valdes

Deborah Vandell

Maris Vinovskis

Matthias von Davier

Noreen Webb

Bernard Weiner

Lois Weis

Roger Weissberg

Amy Stuart Wells

Clifton Wharton

Carl Wieman

John Willett

William Julius Wilson

Mark Wilson

Suzanne Wilson

Sam Wineburg

Carol Camp Yeakey

Hirokazu Yoshikawa

Kenneth Zeichner

Members emeriti
Anthony Alvarado

Richard C. Anderson

Isabel Beck

Carl Bereiter

Derek Bok

John D. Bransford

John Seely Brown

Martin Carnoy

Courtney Cazden

Daryl Chubin

Charles T. Clotfelter

Allan M. Collins

K. Patricia Cross

Larry Cuban

Robert Dreeben

Ronald G. Ehrenberg

Edgar Epps

Elizabeth Fennema

David P. Gardner

Howard Gardner

Herbert Ginsburg

Gene V. Glass

Patricia Graham

James Heckman

Jeremy Kilpatrick

Judith Lanier

Marvin Lazerson

Robert Levine

James G. March

Wilbert J. McKeachie

Robert Moses

Harold J. Noah

Denis Phillips

Thomas A. Romberg

Sheldon Rothblatt

Richard Shavelson

Kenneth Strike

Finis Welch

International associates

 * Rami Benbenishty
 * Michael Fullan
 * David Olson
 * Manabu Sato
 * Anna Sfard
 * Yossi Shavit
 * J. Douglas Willms

International associates emeriti

 * Paul Black
 * Erik De Corte
 * Kieran Egan
 * Guy Neave
 * Sidney Strauss