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As we announced last year, we have added a new section to the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness focused on “Theory, Contexts, and Mechanisms.” This new section of the journal augments its focus to include rich, theory-based reflection and evidence regarding the conditions, contexts, and processes that shape the effects of educational practices and policies. This section builds on the journal’s solid commitment to publishing both rigorous studies of educational practices and policies and advances in the research designs and analytic methods needed to test such practices. We are pleased to debut this section with two articles focused on a set of theoretical and methodological challenges facing the field of education science. These articles are based on plenary addresses given at the 2015 conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. They embody the type of work that we hope to publish more of in the coming years.