Alfredo J. Artiles, a leading educational equity and special education scholar, has been selected as President-Elect of the National Academy of Education (NAEd). Two education leaders have also been elected to the NAEd board of directors.

Dr. Artiles will serve a four-year term as President of the National Academy of Education (NAEd) beginning in October 2025. He will succeed current NAEd President Carol Lee, who enters the final year of her term. NAEd members elect the Academy’s President, having themselves gained membership through their outstanding scholarship or educational contributions.

Alfredo J. Artiles is the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University. His scholarship examines paradoxes of educational equity, and he studies how protections provided by special education can unwittingly stratify educational opportunities for minoritized groups. He is also advancing solutions to this problem. Current work traces equity consequences of the shifting meanings of “disability” and “inclusive education” across contexts and scales and develops opportunity structures in such milieus. Dr. Artiles is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Education, and a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the National Education Policy Center. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Learning Policy Institute. Dr. Artiles received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Göteborgs (Sweden) and was an Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham (UK). He edits the “Disability, Culture, & Equity” book series (Teachers College Press). He and his colleagues led the federally funded National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems and Region IX Equity Assistance Center.

In addition to selecting Artiles as NAEd President-Elect, members have also elected two educational leaders to the NAEd board of directors, and each will serve a four-year term beginning October 2024. Deborah Loewenberg Ball is the Jessie Jean Storey-Fry Distinguished University Professor of Education at the Marsal Family School of Education at the University of Michigan, an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, a research professor in the Institute for Social Research, and the director of TeachingWorks. Sylvia Hurtado is a Distinguished Professor of Education in the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies and directed the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA for over a decade.

The National Academy of Education advances high-quality education research and its use in policy formation and practice. Founded in 1965, the Academy consists of U.S. members and foreign associates elected based on outstanding education-related scholarship. Since its establishment, the Academy has undertaken research studies that address pressing issues in education, and its members are deeply engaged in professional development programs focused on the rigorous preparation of the next generation of scholars.