Education Next
Fear of AI control over education research journal and American Education Research Association (AERA) presidency expressed. AERA’s extensive program description interrogated to determine human or AI origin. Education researchers’ work locations, commonalities, and 2025 AERA meeting theme discussed. Education research’s pressing issues include ongoing health issues, housing and food insecurity, climate crises, and income insecurity. Researchers should focus on racism, ethnic discrimination, violent extremism, political repression, climate change, and Covid-19 related trauma. Education researchers’ role in righting wrongs and acknowledging harms emphasized. Education community’s positive impact through reparations and restorative justice practices noted. AI control suspicion due to ideological tropes and oppression fascination.