Her-Story: Willystine Goodsell

Willystine Goodsell, for whom the AERA Women in Education SIG Award is named, was a nineteenth century activist teacher and faculty member at Teachers College, Columbia University. Goodsell dedicated her life to advancing opportunities and equal education for women. Since 1981 this award has been given to women with outstanding scholarship, activism, and community building on behalf of women, girls, and education. Among her voluminous number of books and articles written in the first half of the twentieth century (Goodsell 1923, 1928, 1934), the greatest impact beyond her is the irony of what and where women are today.