CAE operates through By Laws, a Board of Directors that meets at the AAA Annual Meeting and committees, organized by subject area to sponsor and co-ordinate sessions at the AAA Annual Meeting. Each committee holds a business meeting at the AAA Annual conference to plan for the next year's conference. Attending these meetings is a good way to become active in CAE, meet others with similar research or teaching interests, and learn how anthropology and education intersect.

Stimulated by findings and recommendations presented in a report submitted by a presidentially appointed Diversity Committee (see Diversity Report, CAE has conducted on-going discussions in its Board meetings and in open sessions at the annual meetings to address the recommendations raised in the report. As a result, CAE has established a standing committee on the Mission and also a new committee on Indigenous Education.

Committee #1, Anthropological Studies of School & Culture

Committee #2, Social & Cultural Contexts of Language, Literacy & Cognition

Committee #3, Anthropology of Post-Secondary Education

Committee #4, Ethnographic Approaches to Evaluation in Education

Committee #5, Transnational Issues in Education & Change

Committee #6, Multicultural & Multilingual Education

Committee #7, Blacks in Education

Committee #8, Latinos & Education

Committee #9, Gender in Schools & Society

Committee #10, Culture, Ecology & Education

Committee #11, Applied Work for Educational Futures

Committee #12, Study of Cultural Transmission/Acquisition

Committee #13, Indigenous Education

Standing Committee on Mission


Ad Hoc Committees & Task Forces

Task Force (ad hoc committee as of 2007)

Ad Hoc Committee on Governance (2007)

Ad Hoc Committee on Mentoring (2007)

Ad Hoc Committee on the Website (2007)

Ad Hoc Committee on Policy (2007)