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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Can Decentralized School Systems Pursue Common Ends? An Analysis of Urban Catholic School and System Leaders’ Perceptions of Reform	25
Staying Close to Home: A Descriptive Analysis of the High School Graduates Who Return to Teach in Their Home District	22
Black Englishes and the Global Multilingual Imperative: Toward a Transnational Ethos in Urban Education	21
When and Where We Enter: Introduction to the Special Issue	15
Regrouping: A Call for the Profession to Engage in Strategic Leadership in Preparation and Practice	13
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.	13
Mapping Joy, Rage, and Healing: Restoring the Humanity of Twice Exceptional Urban Students	12
Say-Walahi Diaspora Youth, Islamophobia and Anti-Black Racism: Implications for Education	12
Teacher Activism in “Terrible Cities”: Chronicles of Agency and Resistance in Phoenix and Milwaukee	12
Separate and Unequal in St. Louis? Strengths and Limitations of School-Level Funding Data Using a QuantCrit Framework	11
Understanding Perceptions, Barriers, and Opportunities around Restorative Justice in Urban High Schools	11
“What's Happening Baby?” Lessons with My First Teacher, Mrs. Mary M. Temple Rhodes	11
From the Civil War to CRT and DEI: A Guide for Educators on the Ongoing Confederate Crusade	10
Storytelling in a Racially, Culturally, and Linguistically Complex Classroom: Negotiating Tensions Between Teacher Beliefs and the Systems of Schooling	10
Conceptualizing Intersectional Harm in Mathematics Classrooms: An Analysis of High School Black Girls' Experiences	10
“We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” DEI, or CRT in Florida: Anti-“WOKE” and Anti-DEI Legislation in K-12 and Higher Education	9
A Systematic Literature Review of Research on Teacher Empowerment	9
You Can’t Steal My Joy! Practices and Possibilities for Black Joy in Urban Education	9
“What Do I Need That For?”: The Misalignment of Masculinity and College Preparation in an Urban School	9
The Road I Traveled: Examining Black High School Students’ Understudied Postsecondary Influences and Nuanced Definitions of Success	9
Book Review: Promoting Teacher Advocacy as Critical Teacher Leadership	9
Sixty Years of Urban Education : A Content Analysis on Young Black Men and Boys in Urban Educational Contexts	8
Black Lives Still Matter: Freedom Schools as an Embodiment of Critical Literacy Through Reflection and Action	8
Organizational Ecology's Contagion Growth Perspective in the Study of Standalone Charter Schools in New York City	8
Disposable Spaces: How Special Education Enrollment Affects School Closures	8

Critical Inquiry Groups as Sites for Learning about Race and Racism	8
“I Feel Like I Belong, and I Know Why I Belong”: An Intersectional Identity-Affirming Counterspace	7
A Bricoleur Teacher Institute: Re-Imagining Pre-Service Teacher Preparation Through Social Movement Theorizing	7
Book Review: Responsive Teaching for Sustainable Learning: A Framework for Inclusive Education by Jeanette Berman BermanJeanette, et al. (2024). Responsi	7
Using an Iterative Approach to Systematically Observe Culturally Responsive Practices Across Classrooms	7
Upward Mobility—A Study of Barriers Encountered and Strategies Employed by Minority Assistant Principals Aspiring to be Principals in Urban School Districts	7
“Love is the Root of all Social Justice Work”: Radical Love, STEM Preservice Teacher Education, and Negotiating Social Justice Understandings	7
Special Issue: Expanding Sites of Opportunity for Critical Teacher Learning in Urban Education	7
Mapping Ecosystems: Building an Understanding of an Urban Network of Supports and Resources for Black and Latino/a Students	6
Unmasking Professional Practices to Advance Culturally Inclusive Teaching in HBCU Educator Preparation Programs	6
The Prison History Project at the Indiana Women's Prison and Its Implications for Optimizing the Delivery of STEM Programming in Carceral Settings	6
A Currency of Love: Illuminating Motherhood Across Immigrant, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Lines During COVID-19	6
Racialized Change or Nominal Absorption? Racial Equity Discourses in District-wide Professional Development	6
Coded Racialized Discourse Among Educators: Implications for Social-Emotional Outcomes and Cultures of Antiblackness at an Urban School	6
Criminalized or Stigmatized? An Intersectional Power Analysis of the Charter School Treatment of Black and Latino Boys	6
Black Male College Athletes’ Revelations About Their Collegiate Experience	6
Beyond Linguistic Racism: Linguicism and Intersectionality Among Mongolian Background Postgraduate Female Students in Australia	6
A Pathway to Liberation: A History of the Freedom Schools and the Long Struggle for Justice Since 1865	5
Determining Whether I Want to Belong: Seventh-Grade Black Girls’ Conceptualization and Identification of Sources of Belonging Within the Math Classroom	5
Urban Middle Schoolers’ Opportunities to Belong Predict Fluctuations in Their Engagement Across the School Day	5
Protecting the Path to College During COVID-19: Community Cultural Wealth and Black Students’ Aspirations in an Urban High School	5
Principals, Paradigms, and Possibilities: STEAM Education Reform and the Centering of Black Life	5
Why Ask Why? Decoding Race-Based Decision Dynamics in High School Disciplinary Practices in Texas	5
Discovering the Roadblocks: Culturally Relevant Dispositions among Preservice Teachers	5
“Love Has to Be Part of What You’re Doing”: Exploring Black Men Teachers’ Pedagogical Practices With Black Boys	5
Cooperative Economics in Racially Marginalized Communities: Reframing Economics Education Through Racial Capitalism and Democratic Practices	5
Perpetual Projects of Potential: A Literature Review Tracing 60 Years of Research Questions on Black Men and Boys in Urban Education	5
Democracy, Empires, and the Chinese Diasporas	5
Book Review Johnsen, Susan K. Van Tassel-BaskaJoyce . (Eds.) (2022). Handbook on Assessments for Gifted Learners: Identification, Learning Progress, and Evaluation	5
It's Not Rocket Science: Lessons Learned from HBCUs and PWIs on the Recruitment and Retention of African American STEM Students	4
The Reading Journey of Zion—A Case Study of Race in the Context of Special Education	4
Good Troublemakers: Freedom School Servant Leaders as Change Makers	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
The Durable Inequality of Redlining: HOLC Neighborhood Ratings and Contemporary School Segregation in Oakland	4
Negotiating Antiblackness as Non-Black Latino Men Teachers: Relational Race Politics in the Discourse on Men of Color Teachers	4
Acknowledgment of 2024 reviewers	4
“I Want to Remember Who I Am”: Decolonizing Urban School Leadership Through African Immigrant Youth Schooling Experiences	4
Moving from HOPE to Choice: Childhood Inequalities and Mechanisms for Reducing Inequalities Across Mixed-Income Housing and Neighborhood Redevelopment Initiatives	4
Unsnarling PBIS and Trauma-Informed Education	4
Elementary Teachers’ Attributions for Racially Minoritized Students’ Classroom Behaviors	4
Book Review: Cultivating genius: An equity framework for culturally and historically responsive literacy by Muhammad G	4
Book Review: Teachers of color: Resisting racism and reclaiming education by Kohli R	4
Ascending Critical Consciousness: Designing an Experiential Liberatory Teacher Education Collaborative in Atlanta	3
Gaps in Achievement or Opportunity? How Achievement Gap Discourse Affects Teachers’ Beliefs and Priorities	3
In Their Own Words: The Experiences of Black and Latinx Youth in Culturally Relevant Programming	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
Applying a Framework for More Effective District-wide School–Community Partnerships	3
Teach Like a Black Woman: A Trauma-Informed Black Feminist Praxis	3

Carceral Care in Kentucky: The Case of a School Safety Plan	3
Return of the Lost Cause: Historical Roots of the Current Anti-Civil Rights Campaigns	3
Resisting Racial Battle Fatigue: Cultivating a Restful Black Fugitive Space for Youth to Thrive, Speak, and Write	3
School Absenteeism and Neighborhood Deprivation and Threat: Utilizing the Child Opportunity Index to Assess for Neighborhood-Level Disparities in Passaic County, NJ	3
Open to All: Administrators’ and Teachers’ Perceptions of Issues of Equity and Diversity in Teacher Leadership	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
Black Lives Sure Matter: Decolonizing the Academic Experiences of Academically Advanced Black Students	3
Leading for Justice, Leading for Learning: Conceptualizing Urban School Leadership for Antiracist Mathematics Teaching and Learning	3