OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Urban Education is 3. 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
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
Can Decentralized School Systems Pursue Common Ends? An Analysis of Urban Catholic School and System Leaders’ Perceptions of Reform	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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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