OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Urban Education is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Engaged Learning as a Pathway Towards Supporting Hispanic Students at Urban Universities	23
Black Englishes and the Global Multilingual Imperative: Toward a Transnational Ethos in Urban Education	22
Say-Walahi Diaspora Youth, Islamophobia and Anti-Black Racism: Implications for Education	21
Staying Close to Home: A Descriptive Analysis of the High School Graduates Who Return to Teach in Their Home District	20
Regrouping: A Call for the Profession to Engage in Strategic Leadership in Preparation and Practice	19
When and Where We Enter: Introduction to the Special Issue	16
Can Decentralized School Systems Pursue Common Ends? An Analysis of Urban Catholic School and System Leaders’ Perceptions of Reform	15
Reclaiming Ancestral Wisdom in Teacher Education: A Review of Dillard's The Spirit of Our Work DillardC. B. (2021). The spirit of our work: Black Women teachers (Re)member.	15
Mapping Joy, Rage, and Healing: Restoring the Humanity of Twice Exceptional Urban Students	14
Separate and Unequal in St. Louis? Strengths and Limitations of School-Level Funding Data Using a QuantCrit Framework	12
Understanding Perceptions, Barriers, and Opportunities around Restorative Justice in Urban High Schools	10
A Systematic Literature Review of Research on Teacher Empowerment	10
“What's Happening Baby?” Lessons with My First Teacher, Mrs. Mary M. Temple Rhodes	10
Conceptualizing Intersectional Harm in Mathematics Classrooms: An Analysis of High School Black Girls' Experiences	10
Teacher Activism in “Terrible Cities”: Chronicles of Agency and Resistance in Phoenix and Milwaukee	10
“What Do I Need That For?”: The Misalignment of Masculinity and College Preparation in an Urban School	10
Upward Mobility—A Study of Barriers Encountered and Strategies Employed by Minority Assistant Principals Aspiring to be Principals in Urban School Districts	9
Black Lives Still Matter: Freedom Schools as an Embodiment of Critical Literacy Through Reflection and Action	9
Book Review: Promoting Teacher Advocacy as Critical Teacher Leadership	9
Organizational Ecology's Contagion Growth Perspective in the Study of Standalone Charter Schools in New York City	9
Disposable Spaces: How Special Education Enrollment Affects School Closures	9
You Can’t Steal My Joy! Practices and Possibilities for Black Joy in Urban Education	9
Critical Inquiry Groups as Sites for Learning about Race and Racism	9
The Road I Traveled: Examining Black High School Students’ Understudied Postsecondary Influences and Nuanced Definitions of Success	9
Special Issue: Expanding Sites of Opportunity for Critical Teacher Learning in Urban Education	8

“I Feel Like I Belong, and I Know Why I Belong”: An Intersectional Identity-Affirming Counterspace	8
Using an Iterative Approach to Systematically Observe Culturally Responsive Practices Across Classrooms	8
Reimagining Internal Transformational Resistance in High School Ethnic Studies	8
Sixty Years of Urban Education : A Content Analysis on Young Black Men and Boys in Urban Educational Contexts	8
“Love is the Root of all Social Justice Work”: Radical Love, STEM Preservice Teacher Education, and Negotiating Social Justice Understandings	7
Race, Education and #BlackLivesMatter: How Online Transformational Resistance Shapes the Offline Experiences of Black College-Age Women	7
A Bricoleur Teacher Institute: Re-Imagining Pre-Service Teacher Preparation Through Social Movement Theorizing	7
A Currency of Love: Illuminating Motherhood Across Immigrant, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Lines During COVID-19	7
Racialized Change or Nominal Absorption? Racial Equity Discourses in District-wide Professional Development	7
Book Review: Responsive Teaching for Sustainable Learning: A Framework for Inclusive Education by Jeanette Berman BermanJeanette, et al. (2024). Responsi	7
Criminalized or Stigmatized? An Intersectional Power Analysis of the Charter School Treatment of Black and Latino Boys	6
Principals, Paradigms, and Possibilities: STEAM Education Reform and the Centering of Black Life	6
Mapping Ecosystems: Building an Understanding of an Urban Network of Supports and Resources for Black and Latino/a Students	6
Coded Racialized Discourse Among Educators: Implications for Social-Emotional Outcomes and Cultures of Antiblackness at an Urban School	6
Beyond Linguistic Racism: Linguicism and Intersectionality Among Mongolian Background Postgraduate Female Students in Australia	6
Cooperative Economics in Racially Marginalized Communities: Reframing Economics Education Through Racial Capitalism and Democratic Practices	6
A Pathway to Liberation: A History of the Freedom Schools and the Long Struggle for Justice Since 1865	6
Unmasking Professional Practices to Advance Culturally Inclusive Teaching in HBCU Educator Preparation Programs	6
Black Male College Athletes’ Revelations About Their Collegiate Experience	6
Why Ask Why? Decoding Race-Based Decision Dynamics in High School Disciplinary Practices in Texas	6
Determining Whether I Want to Belong: Seventh-Grade Black Girls’ Conceptualization and Identification of Sources of Belonging Within the Math Classroom	6
Book Review: Handbook on Assessments for Gifted Learners: Identification, Learning Progress, and Evaluation by Susan K. Johnsen and Joyce Van Tassel-aska JohnsenSusan K.	5
Elementary Teachers’ Attributions for Racially Minoritized Students’ Classroom Behaviors	5
The Reading Journey of Zion—A Case Study of Race in the Context of Special Education	5
Urban Middle Schoolers’ Opportunities to Belong Predict Fluctuations in Their Engagement Across the School Day	5
Discovering the Roadblocks: Culturally Relevant Dispositions among Preservice Teachers	5
Unsnarling PBIS and Trauma-Informed Education	5
Democracy, Empires, and the Chinese Diasporas	5
Perpetual Projects of Potential: A Literature Review Tracing 60 Years of Research Questions on Black Men and Boys in Urban Education	5
Negotiating Antiblackness as Non-Black Latino Men Teachers: Relational Race Politics in the Discourse on Men of Color Teachers	5
The Durable Inequality of Redlining: HOLC Neighborhood Ratings and Contemporary School Segregation in Oakland	5
Riding the Yellow School Bus: Equity in bus transportation across districts, schools, and students	5
Moving from HOPE to Choice: Childhood Inequalities and Mechanisms for Reducing Inequalities Across Mixed-Income Housing and Neighborhood Redevelopment Initiatives	4
Acknowledgment of 2024 reviewers	4
Special Education Racial Inequity and the Educational Debt	4
“I Want to Remember Who I Am”: Decolonizing Urban School Leadership Through African Immigrant Youth Schooling Experiences	4
Book Review: Cultivating genius: An equity framework for culturally and historically responsive literacy by Muhammad G	4
“You have a master’s degree, but you speak so ghetto”: Secondary Content-Area Teachers Navigating Raciolinguistic Ideologies	4
Open to All: Administrators’ and Teachers’ Perceptions of Issues of Equity and Diversity in Teacher Leadership	4
Good Troublemakers: Freedom School Servant Leaders as Change Makers	4
It's Not Rocket Science: Lessons Learned from HBCUs and PWIs on the Recruitment and Retention of African American STEM Students	4
Carceral Care in Kentucky: The Case of a School Safety Plan	4
Book Review: Teachers of color: Resisting racism and reclaiming education by Kohli R	4
In Their Own Words: The Experiences of Black and Latinx Youth in Culturally Relevant Programming	3
Teach Like a Black Woman: A Trauma-Informed Black Feminist Praxis	3
Applying a Framework for More Effective District-wide School–Community Partnerships	3
Leading for Justice, Leading for Learning: Conceptualizing Urban School Leadership for Antiracist Mathematics Teaching and Learning	3
Black Lives Sure Matter: Decolonizing the Academic Experiences of Academically Advanced Black Students	3
Un/Learning Developmentalism: How Teachers and Youth Researchers Conceptualize “Youth” in an Intergenerational Collaboration	3
Bang on the System: People’s Praxis and Pedagogy as Humanizing Violence	3

Gaps in Achievement or Opportunity? How Achievement Gap Discourse Affects Teachers’ Beliefs and Priorities	3
Ascending Critical Consciousness: Designing an Experiential Liberatory Teacher Education Collaborative in Atlanta	3
“We Do Not Want to Give Up Our School”: A Case of Antiblackness in a Multiracial School Merger	3
“In a Way It Certainly Tells Us that We Don’t Belong Here”: Black First-Generation College Students Visualizing Their Sense of Belonging at a Historically White Institution	3
School Absenteeism and Neighborhood Deprivation and Threat: Utilizing the Child Opportunity Index to Assess for Neighborhood-Level Disparities in Passaic County, NJ	3
Deciphering Truth: Teaching About the Systemic Nature of Trauma	3
A Meta-analysis: The Association Between Increased Use of Communicative Technology and Parental Involvement and the Relationship with Academic Achievement	3
Investigating Advanced School Surveillance Practices and Disproportionality: A Systematic Review	3
“That's Real Stuff Though”: Understanding Drill Music as Dialogic Expression for Black Youth	3
What Motivates High School Youths to Want to Teach? Narratives of Homegrown Aspiring Teachers	3
Beyond Virtue Signaling: From Talking About to Enacting a Pedagogical Praxis of Justice in Urban Classrooms	3
The Inclusion Mirage: Inside the Segregation of an Urban High School	2
Designing the Divide Authentic Perspectives From the Justice-Impacted Population on STEM Exclusion as a Driver of the School-to-Prison Pipeline	2
Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of Brown : Resistance, Accomplishments, and the Work That Remains in Urban Education	2
School Counselors and School Psychologists as Collaborators for Black Students Pursuing Career and Technical Education: An Antiracist Approach	2
Critical Race Teacher Leadership: Leading Antiracist Systems Change	2
Hierarchies of Elitism among Urban and Rural Palestinian Students in Israel	2
Brown at 70: Commitment or Commemoration	2
Prototyping the Cultural Proficiency Continuum Dialogic Protocol with Professional Development School Teacher Interns	2
The Inequality of the Long Game in a City With School Choice and Changing Racial Demographics	2
Revisiting Teaching Quality Gaps: Urbanicity and Disparities in Access to High-Quality Teachers Across Tennessee	2
Examining Teacher Leadership in the United States: How do BIPOC Teachers and White Teachers in Urban Environments Experience Shared Leadership?	2
“We Know It's a Library”: Black Space, Black Women's Labor, and Radical Black Joy	2
Reflecting, Representing, and Expanding the Narrative(s) in Early Childhood Curriculum	2
Can Certificate Programs Solve the Skills and Spatial Mismatch Problem? Job Portability and Residential Mobility in a Coding and Apprenticeship Program	2
Principals’ Use of Leadership Metaphors in Three Urban Junior High Schools in Taiwan	2
Teacher-Family Solidarity as Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and Practice	2
Engaging Black Educational Consciousness: Unpacking Intersectional Youth Voices in Urban Schools	2
Language Ideologies and Racial (In)Equity in Urban Multilingual Education	2
“At School, It's a Completely Different World”: African Immigrant Youth Agency and Negotiation of Their Adaptation Processes in US Urban Schools	2
A Call for Black Superintendents to Document Their Experiences Through Autoethnography	2
Race-gender D/Discourses in Mathematics Education: (Re)-Producing Inequitable Participation Patterns Across a Diverse, Instructionally-Advanced Urban District	2
Planting the Seeds of Culturally Responsive, Equity-Centered, and Trauma-Informed Attitudes Among Urban Educators	2
Structuring Urban School/University/Community Partnerships as a Tool for Advancing the Legacy of Brown	2
A Review of: Restorative Justice Tribunal: And Ways to Derail Jim Crow Discipline in Schools, by Zachary Scott Robbins, Routledge, 2021	2
The Work That Remains: Student Voice, Resistance and the Promise of Brown	2
Understanding Teacher Self-Efficacy to Address Students’ Social-Emotional Needs in the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
College Readiness Reflexivity Amid Racialized and Changing Sociopolitical Contexts	1
Systemic Inequities in Identification and Representation of Black Youth with Gifts and Talents: Access, Equity, and Missingness in Urban and Other School Locales	1
Fighting for Justice Amid Anti-Black Violence	1
Tales From the Motherboard: Black Mothering Across the Black Networked Consciousness	1
Understanding Teachers’ Ethnic-Racial Socialization Practices with Students in Schools: A Qualitative Inquiry	1
Learning About the Literacy Practices of Mothers with Refugee Backgrounds	1
Eroding Integration: 21st Century Segregation Trends in U.S. Public and Charter Schools and Implications for the Enduring Promise of Brown	1
Utilizing the Urban Education Typology: A Content Analysis of Selected Citations	1
Examining Youths’ Culturally Sustaining Peer Interactions in a Community-Based Participatory Research Initiative	1
Credible Messengers and Cultural Guides: How Near-Peers Expand Access to College Advising in Urban High Schools	1
Preschool Educators’ Opinions and Practices on School Gardening	1
Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School ShalabyC. (2017). Troublemakers: Lessons in freedom from young children at school. The New Press. Doi.org/10.	1
Mind Stayed on Freedom: Education for Liberation Through the Freedom Schools Movement	1
Barriers and Pathways to Enacting Justice-Oriented Social Studies: A Longitudinal Study of Novice Teachers in Urban Contexts	1
A Semiotic Examination of Conceptions of School Safety Data	1
A New Era for Ethnic Studies: Hearing From Early-Career Educators	1
“ESL Students Can Look White!?”: A Case Study of (Re)Assembled Raciolinguistic Subjectivities and Filtered Ideologies	1
Truth Tellers: Using the Photovoice Method to Inform Retention with Teachers of Color	1
“Harriet Tubman is a Superhero”: Conceptualizing Young African American Children's Sociopolitical Awareness as Imaginative Praxis	1
A Different Energy: The Critical Hip-Hop Teaching Artist and School Culture	1
Into DEEP: Pinpointing and Profiling Disciplinary Excellence and Exemplary Performance in Texas Urban Schools	1
Loving Blackness: Counter-Stories of Embracing Black Language Within a University Classroom	1
Responsive Placemaking in an Urban STEM Higher Education Ecosystem During a Pandemic: Considerations for Strengthening Resilience in STEM Education	1
“Well, What’s Wrong with the Whites?”: A Conversation Starter on Raising Expectations for Inservice Professional Development on Race with White Teachers	1
Empathic Approaches for Supporting Black Students During Remote Learning	1
Toward Consequential Literature Reviews	1
Book Review for “Core Practices in Teacher Education” by Grossman, P., & Fraefel, U. (Eds) GrossmanP.FraefelU. (Eds.). (2024). Core Practices in Teacher Education. Harvard Education Press.	1
Black Male Brilliance as (Ill)Legible: Challenging and Changing Societal and Educational Narratives	1
Leveraging Identities and Bridging Communities: Counternarratives of Asian (American) Teachers in Urban Schools	1
Contracting Whiteness: Charter Authorizing and the Erasure of Blackness in Southern Urban Spaces	1
Educational Pathways to Health Equity: The Contribution of HBCU-led Health and Physical Teacher Education Program	1
Beyond the Land of Thorns: Epistemic Authorship in Dual Language Bilingual Education	1
At Risk and A Risk: Disrupting Anti-Black Hate Toward Black Males in K-12 Schools	1
“To Know There's Other Indigenous People in Your School is Nice”: Urban Indigenous Civic Identity	1
Reclaiming Place in Teaching: Future Teacher of Color Spaces as Communities of Resistance	1
Examining the Impacts of a Developmentally Appropriate, Culturally Relevant Virtual School on Student Outcomes	1
The Promethean Promise: Understanding and Responding to the Educational Aspirations of Black People in the US, Seventy Years After Brown	1
The Freedom School Way: A Model for Intergenerational Research Training Partnerships Among Universities and Children's Defense Fund Freedom Schools® Programs	1
Youth Leadership and Intersectionality: Which Youth Have a Say in School Decision-Making?	1
Assessing Disproportional Calls Home for Problems at School: A Critical Race Framing and Analysis of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Childhood Adversities	1