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Astronomy Education Review (AER), the web-based journal/magazine about astronomy education and outreach, announces the on-line publication of its 13th issue, now complete on the Web at http://aer.noao.edu. There is no charge for reading or downloading the full articles in the journal.

The table of contents is below.

When you go to the AER site, you will see that the next issue is already under way. You can find the full 13th issue by clicking on back issues and then on vol. 7, no. 1.

AER actively solicits interesting papers and articles on all aspects of astronomy space science education and outreach. The journal gets between 130,000 and 270,000 hits per month from every state of the U.S. and over 90 other countries.  All papers are refereed and a set of guidelines for contributing to AER is available on the web site.

We are also delighted to announce that, as of 2009, AER will become a journal of the American Astronomical Society.  The transition should be seamless and we continue to accept papers and announcement for publication in either the last issue of 2008 or the first issue of 2009.  More information about the change of publishers will be available in the months to come.

Sidney Wolff and Andrew Fraknoi, Editors

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Papers and articles in the current issue include:
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* "The First Big Wave of Astronomy Education Research Dissertations and Some Directions for Future Research Efforts" by Timothy Slater, University of Wyoming

* "Development and Implementation of a Lab Course for Introductory Astronomy" by Nate McCrady and Emily Rice, UCLA

* "What Are They Talking About? Lessons Learned from a Study of Peer Instruction" by Mark James, Federica Barbieri, and Paula Garcia, Northern Arizona University

* "An International Asteroid Search Campaign" by J. Patrick Miller, Hardin-Simmons University, et al.

* "Images on the Web for Astronomy Teaching: Image Repositories" by Andrew Fraknoi, Foothill College

* "The Interactive Astronomy Textbook" by Christopher Fluke and David Barnes, Swinburne University of Technology

* "Distance to the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy: An Experiment for Intermediate-Level Students Using Research Data and Professional Analysis Tools" by M. T. Fitzgerald, Monash University, et al.

* "The Seasons Explained by Refutational Modeling Activities for Pre-service Teachers" by Valérie Frede, Paris Observatory

* "Astronomy@Home" by George Mumford, Tufts University

* "Good Reading from Other Sources on Astronomy Education and Outreach (Published in 2007)"

plus other papers, a book review, announcements, and more