Drs. Hugh Dunn (PLC Director and Principal Investigator) and Malkeet Singh (Senior Research Analyst, Wake County, North Carolina, Public School System) co-authored the paper, A New Research Method for Uncovering Achievement Gap Patterns in Large-Scale Assessments to Better Inform Policy and Practice, which received the 2019 Hawa‘i Educational Research Association (HERA) Distinguished Paper Award. This is the second consecutive year that Dunn received this award. Dunn and Singh were invited to present their paper at the 2019 American Educational Research Association annual meeting, which will be held in Toronto, Canada.