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Pedro Portes, a professor of educational psychology in the College of Education, has been invited to join the editorial board for a section of the premier peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

Portes, The Goizueta Foundation Distinguished Chair of Latino Teacher Education and executive director of the Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education, will serve on the board of the American Educational Research Journal’s (AERJ), Teaching, Learning, and Human Development section in 2014. He was selected because of his substantive and methodological expertise as a researcher in education.

A past Fulbright Scholar to Peru, Portes received the AERA’s 2005 Research Award in Human Development. He is co-author of “Vygotsky in 21st Century Society” (2011) and author of “Dismantling Educational Inequality: A Cultural-Historical Approach to Closing the Achievement Gap” (2005). He is co-editor of the forthcoming “U.S. Latinos and Education Policy Research-Based Directions for Change,” to be published in spring 2014.

Portes joins COE faculty colleagues Peter Smagorinsky, Donna Alvermann and Jeremy Kilpatrick who also have served on the AERJ’s editorial board.

Smagorinsky, a UGA Distinguished Research Professor in language and literacy education, has served on the AERJ editorial board since 2008. He has also served on the editorial boards of the AERA journals: Review of Educational Research (2012-15, 2009-11, 1997-99) and Educational Researcher (2007-09).

Alvermann, the Omer Clyde and Elizabeth Parr Aderhold Professor in Education and a UGA Distinguished Research Professor in language and literacy education, served on the editorial board of the AERJ’s Social and Institutional Analysis section from 2006-11. She was named an AERA Fellow in 2012.

Kilpatrick, a Regents Professor of mathematics education, served on the editorial board of the AERJ’s Social and Institutional Analysis section from 2002-05. He was named an AERA Fellow in 2009.

Other COE faculty members who are AERA Fellows include: Mary Atwater and Roy Martin (emeritus) (2008), George Engelhard Jr., Jude Priessle and Jeremy Kilpatrick (2009), Joe Tobin and Leslie Steffe (2010).