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High-Impact News for Educational Psychologists

"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young."
- Konrad Lorenz

Featured: In the final Psychology Today post of Dr. Nancy Perry's 2015-2016 Presidential Series, authors Leyton Schnellert and Deborah L. Butler suggest that we should reconceptualize teacher development as collaborative inquiry. (Psychology Today)

The Atlantic discusses a new paper from Nobel laureate James Heckman, in which he advocates for public schooling that begins at birth. (The Atlantic)

New research suggests that later school start times for teenagers correlated to longer nights' sleep and better outcomes. (ScienceDaily)

The Atlantic discusses different stances on mentoring's "promise and limits." (The Atlantic)

The Hechinger Report questions whether school-based police officers do more harm than good. (The Hechinger Report)

Nominate or Apply as Editor for Upcoming Handbook of Educational Psychology

The American Psychological Association’s Board of Scientific Division 15’s Publications Committee is seeking nominations for editors for the fourth edition of the Division’s Handbook of Educational Psychology. The Handbook will probably be published in 2025. As in the past, the Division seeks to appoint editors soon so that they can have time at the front end to assess developments in the field, and to seek appropriate chapters.

Those interested can learn more about the position—and find application instructions—here.

AERA Announces Winter 2017 AERA Grants Program Competition

AERA has announced its Winter 2017 AERA Grants Program competition. The program is currently accepting proposals for both Dissertation and Research Grants until Wednesday, January 25, 2017. The AERA Grants Program, with support from the National Science Foundation, provides small grants for conducting studies of education policy and practice using federally-funded, large-scale data sets. Proposals are encouraged from a variety of disciplines, such as but not limited to, education, sociology, economics, psychology, demography, statistics, and psychometrics.

Learn more about these grants here.

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