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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Urban School District Performance: A Longitudinal Analysis of Achievement	38
Middle School Teachers and Undergraduate Mentors Collaborating for Culturally Relevant STEM Education	35
Engaged Learning as a Pathway Towards Supporting Hispanic Students at Urban Universities	31
Seeking Support in Teacher Education for Racial Knowledge: The Role of Professional Networks and Social Identities	30
When and Where We Enter: Introduction to the Special Issue	17
Toward a (Re)Integrated Application of Bourdieuan Theory	17
Can Decentralized School Systems Pursue Common Ends? An Analysis of Urban Catholic School and System Leaders’ Perceptions of Reform	16
Staying Close to Home: A Descriptive Analysis of the High School Graduates Who Return to Teach in Their Home District	15
Conceptualizing Intersectional Harm in Mathematics Classrooms: An Analysis of High School Black Girls' Experiences	13
Book Review: Cultivating genius: An equity framework for culturally and historically responsive literacy	11
Saved by the Bell Schedule? The Effects of a Later School Start Time on High Schoolers in an Urban District	11
Teacher Activism in “Terrible Cities”: Chronicles of Agency and Resistance in Phoenix and Milwaukee	11
Saved by the School Community Strategy: School-Community Alliances for Promoting School Success in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods During Times of Austerity	11
Book Review: Black Lives Matter at School: Community Schools, COVID-19 and Freedom Dreams	10
You Can’t Steal My Joy! Practices and Possibilities for Black Joy in Urban Education	10
The Trifecta Framework: Preparing Agents of Change in Urban Education	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
Separate and Unequal in St. Louis? Strengths and Limitations of School-Level Funding Data Using a QuantCrit Framework	10
Understanding Perceptions, Barriers, and Opportunities around Restorative Justice in Urban High Schools	10
Book Review: Promoting Teacher Advocacy as Critical Teacher Leadership	9
Book Review: One World	9
“What Do I Need That For?”: The Misalignment of Masculinity and College Preparation in an Urban School	9
Organizational Ecology's Contagion Growth Perspective in the Study of Standalone Charter Schools in New York City	8
“I Feel Like I Belong, and I Know Why I Belong”: An Intersectional Identity-Affirming Counterspace	8

Reimagining Internal Transformational Resistance in High School Ethnic Studies	8
“Inter-District School Transfers and the Role of Educators in Black Students’ Sense of School Belonging”	8
Black Lives Still Matter: Freedom Schools as an Embodiment of Critical Literacy Through Reflection and Action	8
Disposable Spaces: How Special Education Enrollment Affects School Closures	8
An Overview of Community Cultural Wealth: Toward a Protective Factor Against Racism	7
Affirming and Nurturing Students’ Cultural Wealth to Enhance Self-efficacy: Examination of Urban High School Students’ Lived Experiences in a STEM-Medicine Pipeline Program	7
It's Just the Wilson Way: Investigating the Extended Impact of an Elementary Full-Service Community School Initiative on Middle School STEM-Related Outcomes	7
Internal, Moral, and Market Accountability: Leading Urban Schools During the Covid-19 Pandemic	7
Using an Iterative Approach to Systematically Observe Culturally Responsive Practices Across Classrooms	7
Career and Technical Education's Unequal Dividends for High School Students: The Stratification of a New Generation	7
Criminalized or Stigmatized? An Intersectional Power Analysis of the Charter School Treatment of Black and Latino Boys	6
A Currency of Love: Illuminating Motherhood Across Immigrant, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Lines During COVID-19	6
Principals, Paradigms, and Possibilities: STEAM Education Reform and the Centering of Black Life	6
Acknowledgment of 2021 reviewers	6
Beyond Linguistic Racism: Linguicism and Intersectionality Among Mongolian Background Postgraduate Female Students in Australia	6
Urban Middle Schoolers’ Opportunities to Belong Predict Fluctuations in Their Engagement Across the School Day	6
Persistence Despite Structural Barriers: Investigating Work Environments for Black and Latinx Teachers in Urban and Suburban Schools	6
Race, Education and #BlackLivesMatter: How Online Transformational Resistance Shapes the Offline Experiences of Black College-Age Women	6
Coded Racialized Discourse Among Educators: Implications for Social-Emotional Outcomes and Cultures of Antiblackness at an Urban School	6
Democracy, Empires, and the Chinese Diasporas	6
Discovering the Roadblocks: Culturally Relevant Dispositions among Preservice Teachers	6
Facilitating Educational Equity and Safety of Undocumented Immigrant Students	6
Cooperative Economics in Racially Marginalized Communities: Reframing Economics Education Through Racial Capitalism and Democratic Practices	5
Moving from HOPE to Choice: Childhood Inequalities and Mechanisms for Reducing Inequalities Across Mixed-Income Housing and Neighborhood Redevelopment Initiatives	5
“I Wanted Diversity, But Not So Much”: Middle-Class White Parents, School Choice, and the Persistence of Anti-Black Stereotypes	5
A Pathway to Liberation: A History of the Freedom Schools and the Long Struggle for Justice Since 1865	5
Mapping Ecosystems: Building an Understanding of an Urban Network of Supports and Resources for Black and Latino/a Students	5
Negotiating Antiblackness as Non-Black Latino Men Teachers: Relational Race Politics in the Discourse on Men of Color Teachers	5
Riding the Yellow School Bus: Equity in bus transportation across districts, schools, and students	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
Book Review: Cultivating genius: An equity framework for culturally and historically responsive literacy by Muhammad G	4
Good Troublemakers: Freedom School Servant Leaders as Change Makers	4
Book Review: Teachers of color: Resisting racism and reclaiming education by Kohli R	4
“You have a master’s degree, but you speak so ghetto”: Secondary Content-Area Teachers Navigating Raciolinguistic Ideologies	4
Special Education Racial Inequity and the Educational Debt	4
Unsnarling PBIS and Trauma-Informed Education	4
Investigating Advanced School Surveillance Practices and Disproportionality: A Systematic Review	4
Abolishing Disciplines, Blurring Boundaries: A Review of Bettina Love’s We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom (2019)	4
Acknowledgment of 2024 reviewers	4
Open to All: Administrators’ and Teachers’ Perceptions of Issues of Equity and Diversity in Teacher Leadership	4
In Their Own Words: The Experiences of Black and Latinx Youth in Culturally Relevant Programming	4
School Absenteeism and Neighborhood Deprivation and Threat: Utilizing the Child Opportunity Index to Assess for Neighborhood-Level Disparities in Passaic County, NJ	3
Beyond Virtue Signaling: From Talking About to Enacting a Pedagogical Praxis of Justice in Urban Classrooms	3
Hierarchies of Elitism among Urban and Rural Palestinian Students in Israel	3
Teach Like a Black Woman: A Trauma-Informed Black Feminist Praxis	3
A Meta-analysis: The Association Between Increased Use of Communicative Technology and Parental Involvement and the Relationship with Academic Achievement	3
Ascending Critical Consciousness: Designing an Experiential Liberatory Teacher Education Collaborative in Atlanta	3
“We, as Parents, Do Have a Voice”: Learning from Community-Based Programs Effectively Engaging Parents in Urban Communities	3
Structuring Urban School/University/Community Partnerships as a Tool for Advancing the Legacy of Brown	3

Planting the Seeds of Culturally Responsive, Equity-Centered, and Trauma-Informed Attitudes Among Urban Educators	3
Leading for Justice, Leading for Learning: Conceptualizing Urban School Leadership for Antiracist Mathematics Teaching and Learning	3
Gaps in Achievement or Opportunity? How Achievement Gap Discourse Affects Teachers’ Beliefs and Priorities	3
Carceral Care in Kentucky: The Case of a School Safety Plan	3
Deciphering Truth: Teaching About the Systemic Nature of Trauma	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
Principals’ Use of Leadership Metaphors in Three Urban Junior High Schools in Taiwan	3
Reflecting, Representing, and Expanding the Narrative(s) in Early Childhood Curriculum	3
Bang on the System: People’s Praxis and Pedagogy as Humanizing Violence	3
On the Abolition of Belonging as Property: Toward Justice for Immigrant Children of Color	3
What Motivates High School Youths to Want to Teach? Narratives of Homegrown Aspiring Teachers	3
Prototyping the Cultural Proficiency Continuum Dialogic Protocol with Professional Development School Teacher Interns	2
Can Certificate Programs Solve the Skills and Spatial Mismatch Problem? Job Portability and Residential Mobility in a Coding and Apprenticeship Program	2
How Principals Balance Control and Care in Urban School Discipline	2
Teacher-Family Solidarity as Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and Practice	2
Dismantling Carceral Logics in the Urban Early Literacy Classroom: Towards Liberatory Literacy Pedagogies with/for Multiply-Marginalized Young Children	2
The Work That Remains: Student Voice, Resistance and the Promise of Brown	2
“At School, It's a Completely Different World”: African Immigrant Youth Agency and Negotiation of Their Adaptation Processes in US Urban Schools	2
Race-gender D/Discourses in Mathematics Education: (Re)-Producing Inequitable Participation Patterns Across a Diverse, Instructionally-Advanced Urban District	2
Betwixt and Between Justice and Inaction: Full-Service Community School Principals and Community Equity Literacy	2
In Between the Lines: Black and Brown Adolescents Creating a Homeplace Across School Settings	2
Critical Race Teacher Leadership: Leading Antiracist Systems Change	2
Understanding Teachers’ Ethnic-Racial Socialization Practices with Students in Schools: A Qualitative Inquiry	1
Science in the City: Culturally Relevant STEM Education: A Review	1
Revisiting Teaching Quality Gaps: Urbanicity and Disparities in Access to High-Quality Teachers Across Tennessee	1
Invisible Funds of Identity in Urban Contexts	1
The Inclusion Mirage: Inside the Segregation of an Urban High School	1
Language Ideologies and Racial (In)Equity in Urban Multilingual Education	1
Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of Brown : Resistance, Accomplishments, and the Work That Remains in Urban Education	1
Examining Youths’ Culturally Sustaining Peer Interactions in a Community-Based Participatory Research Initiative	1
“It's a Little, Tiny Process”: Gentrification, Inequality, and Fragmented Resistance to School Choice	1
Learning About the Literacy Practices of Mothers with Refugee Backgrounds	1
Mind Stayed on Freedom: Education for Liberation Through the Freedom Schools Movement	1
Beyond the Land of Thorns: Epistemic Authorship in Dual Language Bilingual Education	1
Community-Based Research with Immigrant Families: Sustaining an Intellectual Commons of Care, Resistance, and Solidarity in an Urban Intensive Context	1
Tales From the Motherboard: Black Mothering Across the Black Networked Consciousness	1
Preschool Educators’ Opinions and Practices on School Gardening	1
Youth Leadership and Intersectionality: Which Youth Have a Say in School Decision-Making?	1
The Inequality of the Long Game in a City With School Choice and Changing Racial Demographics	1
Examining Teacher Leadership in the United States: How do BIPOC Teachers and White Teachers in Urban Environments Experience Shared Leadership?	1
Brown at 70: Commitment or Commemoration	1
“Harriet Tubman is a Superhero”: Conceptualizing Young African American Children's Sociopolitical Awareness as Imaginative Praxis	1
Utilizing the Urban Education Typology: A Content Analysis of Selected Citations	1
A Different Energy: The Critical Hip-Hop Teaching Artist and School Culture	1
The Promethean Promise: Understanding and Responding to the Educational Aspirations of Black People in the US, Seventy Years After Brown	1
Assessing Disproportional Calls Home for Problems at School: A Critical Race Framing and Analysis of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Childhood Adversities	1
The Freedom School Way: A Model for Intergenerational Research Training Partnerships Among Universities and Children's Defense Fund Freedom Schools® Programs	1
Eroding Integration: 21st Century Segregation Trends in U.S. Public and Charter Schools and Implications for the Enduring Promise of Brown	1
Empathic Approaches for Supporting Black Students During Remote Learning	1
A Call for Black Superintendents to Document Their Experiences Through Autoethnography	1
“We Know It's a Library”: Black Space, Black Women's Labor, and Radical Black Joy	1
A Review of: Restorative Justice Tribunal: And Ways to Derail Jim Crow Discipline in Schools, by Zachary Scott Robbins, Routledge, 2021	1
“Well, What’s Wrong with the Whites?”: A Conversation Starter on Raising Expectations for Inservice Professional Development on Race with White Teachers	1
Examining the Impacts of a Developmentally Appropriate, Culturally Relevant Virtual School on Student Outcomes	1
“ESL Students Can Look White!?”: A Case Study of (Re)Assembled Raciolinguistic Subjectivities and Filtered Ideologies	1
“To Know There's Other Indigenous People in Your School is Nice”: Urban Indigenous Civic Identity	1