Members of CCT's staff will join other education research professionals and practitioners at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in New Orleans, April 1-5, 2002. CCT staff members will participate in several panel discussions and seminars at the conference. This year's theme is "Validity and Value in Education Research." CCT Executive Director Margaret Honey will announce the winner of this year's Jan Hawkins Award at a Friday morning ceremony. Named in memory of one of CCT's founders, the award honors a researcher whose work best reflects Ms. Hawkins' well known example.