The American Education Research Association (AERA) is one of the largest education conferences in the world. Using the AERA Open Access Repository, we created a 5,000,000 word corpus of over 18,000 abstracts. We explored the coverages of the New General Service List (NGSL), the New Academic Word List (NAWL), and the Social Science Word List (SSWL). We found that the NGSL and NAWL provide approximately 90% coverage for abstracts from all 12 of the AERA's subject matter divisions. The SSWL showed little additional coverage. Our discussion highlights the research and pedagogical implications of our findings and the AERA abstract corpus. [For the complete volume of short papers, see ED590612.]