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1. NATIONAL FORUM OF APPLIED EDUCATIONAL
RESEARCH JOURNAL
32nd Year Anniversary
Founded 1982
William Allan Kritsonis, Editor-in-Chief
Robert L. Marshall, Senior National Editor
Mary Alice Kritsonis, National Research Editor
J.M. Blackbourn, Special Advisor to the Editor-in-Chief
Alexis Catherine Brown, Associate National Editor
Austin Michael Brown, Copy Editor
Charles Sellers, National/International Web Manager
National Policy Board
Richard Blackbourn, Mississippi State University - Kathleen M. Brown, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill - Barry S. Davidson, Troy University - Richard & Rebecca DuFour Fenwick W. English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - John I. Goodlad, Center for
Educational Renewal, University of Washington - David E. Herrington, Texas A&M University
-San Antonio - Beverly J. Irby, Texas A&M University - College Station - Dan L. King, Rhode
Island College – Fred C. Lunenburg, Sam Houston State University - Rosemary Papa, Northern
Arizona University - Thomas A. Rakes, University of Tennessee at Martin
National Editorial Review Board
National FORUM of Applied Educational Research Journal
Vincent A. Anfara, Jr., University of Tennessee, Knoxville – Charles T. Araki, University of
Hawaii – Jennifer Butcher, Lamar University - Gerald J. Calais, McNeese State University –
Lynne Chalmers, University of North Dakota – Roxane Cuellar, Texas State University - San
Marcos - Michael L. Cunningham, Marshall University– Jon Denton, Texas A&M University College Station –Thomas J. Gallia, Rowan University – Evangeline Harris, Tufts University Karen Hayes, University of Nebraska at Omaha - Mack Hines III, Sam Houston State University Lisa Hobson, Prairie View A&M University – Teresa Ann Hughes, Prairie View A&M University
David E. Kapel, Rowan University - James D. Laub, The University of Texas at the Permian Basin
James F. McNamara, Texas A&M University - College Station – Sue Minchew, Mississippi State
University – Carole Murphy, University of Missouri - St. Louis – Rudy D. Pauley, Marshall
University – Arthur L. Petterway, Prairie View A&M University-– Dennis Ridley, Virginia
Wesleyan College - William Streshly, San Diego State University – Conn Thomas, West Texas
A&M University - Harold E. Wilson, Ashland University – W.C. Wolf, Jr., University of
Massachusetts, Amherst