The National Academy of Education is an honorific society consisting of U.S. members and international associates who are elected on the basis of outstanding scholarship related to education. Founded in 1965, the mission of NAEd is to advance high-quality education research and its use in policy formulation and practice. A listing of all our members is below. For further information and a bio, please click on their name or image.

The National Academy of Education accepts membership nominations annually.  Only current members are eligible to submit nominations.  For more information on the nomination process, please contact Maria Gahan, Director of Professional Development Programs.

Bruce Alberts

University of California, San Francisco

Patricia Alexander

University of Maryland

James Anderson

University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Richard Anderson

University of Illinois

Alfredo J. Artiles

Arizona State University

Ron Avi Astor

University of California, Los Angeles

Richard Atkinson

University of California

Thomas Bailey

Teachers College, Columbia University

Arnetha F. Ball

Stanford University

Deborah Loewenberg Ball

University of Michigan

James Banks

University of Washington, Seattle

Hyman Bass

University of Michigan

Estela Mara Bensimon

University of Southern California

Mark Berends

University of Notre Dame

Howard S. Bloom

MDRC

Hilda Borko

Stanford University

A. Wade Boykin, Jr.

Howard University

Charles Brainerd

Cornell University

Henry Braun

Boston College

Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy

Arizona State University

John Brown

Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

Anthony Bryk

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Eamonn Callan

Stanford University

Prudence Carter

University of California, Berkeley

Stephen Ceci

Cornell University

P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

Northwestern University

Charles Clotfelter

Duke University

Paul Cobb

Vanderbilt University

Cynthia E. Coburn

Northwestern University

David Cohen

University of Michigan

Michael Cole

University of California, San Diego

James Comer

Yale University

William Damon

Stanford University

Linda Darling-Hammond

Stanford University

Andrea diSessa

University of California, Berkeley

Greg Duncan

University of California, Irvine

Jacquelynne Eccles

University of Michigan

Ronald Ehrenberg

Cornell University

Frederick Erickson

University of California, Los Angeles

Dorothy L. Espelage

University of Florida

John Fantuzzo

University of Pennsylvania

David Figlio

Northwestern University

Robert Floden

Michigan State University

Megan Franke

University of California, Los Angeles

Susan Fuhrman

Teachers College, Columbia University

Vivian Gadsden

University of Pennsylvania

Adam Gamoran

William T. Grant Foundation

Ofelia García

The Graduate Center, City University of New York

James Gee

Arizona State University

Carol Gilligan

New York University

Louis Gomez

University of California, Los Angeles

Thomas Good

University of Arizona

Edmund Gordon

Yale University;
Teachers College, Columbia University

Sandra Graham

University of California, Los Angeles

Hanna Gray

University of Chicago

Pamela Grossman

University of Pennsylvania

John Guthrie

University of Maryland, College Park

Kris GutiÉrrez

University of California, Berkeley

Amy Gutmann

University of Pennsylvania

Kenji Hakuta

Stanford University

Ronald K. Hambleton

University of Massachusetts 

Eric Hanushek

Stanford University

Shirley Brice Heath

Stanford University

James Heckman

University of Chicago

Larry Hedges

Northwestern University

Joan Herman

CRESST/UCLA

Diana Hess

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Paul Holland

Educational Testing Service

Glynda Hull

University of California, Berkeley

Sylvia Hurtado

University of California, Los Angeles

Jacqueline Irvine

Emory University

Jack Jennings

Center on Education Policy

Rucker Johnson

University of California, Berkeley 

Susan Johnson

Harvard University

Sharon Kagan

Teachers College, Columbia University

David Kaplan

University of Wisconsin – Madison

Gregory Kelly

Pennsylvania State University 

Walter Kintsch

University of Colorado in Boulder

David Kirp

University of California at Berkeley

David Klahr

Carnegie Mellon University

Michal Kurlaender

University of California, Davis

Helen Ladd

Duke University

Gloria Ladson-Billings

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Harvard University

Carol Lee

Northwestern University

Valerie Lee

University of Michigan

Hope Leichter

Columbia University

Nonie K. Lesaux

Harvard University

Marcia Linn

University of California, Berkeley

Susanna Loeb

Brown University

K. Tsianina Lomawaima

Arizona State University

Bridget Terry Long

Harvard University

Teresa L. McCarty

University of California, Los Angeles

Kathleen McCartney

Smith College

Lorraine McDonnell

University of California, Santa Barbara

Douglas Medin

Northwestern University

Hugh Mehan

University of California, San Diego

Deborah Meier

New York University

Elizabeth Moje

University of Michigan

Luis Moll

University of Arizona

Pamela Moss

University of Michigan

Richard Murnane

Harvard University

Na’ilah Suad Nasir

The Spencer Foundation

Anna Neumann

Teachers College, Columbia University

Nel Noddings

Stanford University

Pedro Noguera

University of California, Los Angeles

Jeannie Oakes

University of California, Los Angeles

Melvin L. Oliver

Pitzer College

Gary Orfield

University of California, Los Angeles

Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar

University of Michigan

Roy Pea

Stanford University

David Pearson

University of California, Berkeley

James Pellegrino

University of Illinois at Chicago

David Perkins

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Laura W. Perna

University of Pennsylvania

Paul Peterson

Harvard University

Andrew Porter

University of Pennsylvania

Alejandro Portes

Princeton University

Diana Pullin

Boston College

Stephen Raudenbush

University of Chicago

C. Cybele Raver

New York University

Diane Ravitch

New York University

William Reese

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Lauren Resnick

University of Pittsburgh

Barbara Rogoff

University of California, Santa Cruz

Cecilia Rouse

Princeton University

Brian Rowan

University of Michigan

Robert Rueda

University of Southern California

Russell Rumberger

University of California, Santa Barbara

Geoffrey Saxe

University of California, Berkeley

Marlene Scardamalia

OISE/University of Toronto

Morton Schapiro

Northwestern University

Leona Schauble

Vanderbilt University

William Schmidt

Michigan State University

Alan Schoenfeld

University of California, Berkeley

Donna Shalala

U.S. House of Representatives

Lorrie Shepard

University of Colorado at Boulder

Robert Siegler

Teachers College, Columbia University

Edward Silver

University of Michigan

Judith Singer

Harvard University

Robert Slavin

Johns Hopkins University

Christine E. Sleeter

California State University, Monterey Bay 

Marshall Smith

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Daniel G. Solorzano

University of California, Los Angeles

Margaret Beale Spencer

University of Chicago

James Spillane

Northwestern University

James Stigler

University of California, Los Angeles

Deborah Stipek

Stanford University

Carola SuÁrez-Orozco

University of California, Los Angeles

William F. Tate IV

Washington University in St. Louis

David Tatel

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Marta Tienda

Princeton University

Judith Torney-Purta

University of Maryland at College Park

Elliot Turiel

University of California, Berkeley

Guadalupe Valdes

Stanford University

Maris Vinovskis

University of Michigan

Vanessa Siddle Walker

Emory University

Mark Warschauer

University of California, Irvine

Bernard Weiner

University of California, Los Angeles

Lois Weis

University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Roger Weissberg

The University of Illinois at Chicago

Carl Wieman

Stanford University

William Julius Wilson

Harvard University

Mark Wilson

University of California, Berkeley

Sam Wineburg

Stanford University

Frank C. Worrell

University of California, Berkeley

Stanton Wortham

Boston College

Hirokazu Yoshikawa

New York University

Kenneth Zeichner

University of Washington, Seattle

Yong Zhao

University of Kansas

Anthony Alvarado

Stanford University

Bernard Bailyn

Harvard University

Carl Bereiter

OISE/University of Toronto

Derek Bok

Harvard University

John Bransford

University of Washington, Seattle

Allan Collins

Northwestern University

K. Patricia Cross

University of California, Berkeley

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Claremont Graduate University

Robert Dreeben

University of Chicago

Richard Elmore

Harvard University

Edgar Epps

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

David Gardner

University of California, System

Howard Gardner

Harvard University

Herbert Ginsburg

Teachers College, Columbia University

James Greeno

University of Pittsburgh

Jeremy Kilpatrick

University of Georgia

Michael Kirst

Stanford University

Deanna Kuhn

Teachers College, Columbia University

Magdalene Lampert

University of Michigan

Judith Lanier

Michigan State University

Henry Levin

Teachers College, Columbia University

Robert LeVine

Harvard University

Richard Light

Harvard University

Wilbert McKeachie

University of Michigan

Milbrey McLaughlin

Stanford University

John Meyer

Stanford University

Denis Phillips

Stanford University

Thomas Romberg

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Sheldon Rothblatt

University of California, Berkeley

Richard Shavelson

Stanford University

Claude Steele

University of California, Berkeley

Kenneth Strike

Cornell University

John Willett

Harvard University

Clifton Wharton

TIAA-CREF, Former Chairman and CEO

Miriam Ben-Peretz

University of Haifa

Rami Benbenishty

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Guy Neave

International Association of Universities

David Olson

OISE/University of Toronto

Fritz Oser

University of Fribourg

Manabu Sato

Gakushuin University

Anna Sfard

The University of Haifa

Yossi Shavit

Tel Aviv University

John Willinsky

Stanford University

J. Douglas Willms

University of New Brunswick

Paul Black

King’s College, London

Erik De Corte

University of Leuven, Belgium