OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Journal of Education is 0. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
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Helping Every Student Succeed? State Education Agency Roles and Responsibilities for Improving Underperforming Schools and Districts	13
School Factors That Promote Teacher Collaboration: Results from the Tennessee Instructional Partnership Initiative	13
Common Purposes: Defining the Reform Capabilities Created by Private Foundations through Strategic Giving in Support of the Common Core State Standards	11
Shifting the Gaze: Examining Contextual Factors Influencing Teacher Morale in Suburban Schools	11
The Power of the Inner Voice: Examining Self-Talk’s Relationship with Academic Outcomes	11
Building Coherence: An Investigation of Collective Efficacy, Social Context, and How Leaders Shape Teachers’ Work	10
Happiness-Oriented Parents: An Alternative Perspective on Privilege and Choosing Schools	10
Cultivating Critical Hope While Leading during Crisis: A Qualitative Cross-Comparative Analysis	9
A Flawed Policy Metaphor: An Empirical Test of Earlier Academic Promise and Later STEM Outcomes	8
Examining Two-Way Dual Language Program Dispersion in the Context of Neighborhood Change, Charter School Expansion, and Enrollment Decline	8
Do Rising Tides Lift All Boats? Exploring Heterogenous Effects of Florida’s Developmental Education Reform by High School Academic Preparation	8
Navigating Tensions in School Discipline: Examining School Leaders, Teachers, and the Conversion of Referrals into Suspensions	7
Youth Involvement in School Decision-Making during the Pandemic	7
:Other People’s Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform	6
Social Construction Is Racial Construction: Examining the Target Populations in School-Choice Policies	6
The Echo of Reform Rhetoric: Arguments about National and Local School Failure in the News, 1984–2016	6
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Multiracial Faculty Members’ Experiences with Multiracial Microaggressions	5
The Persistence of and Challenges to Whiteness in Parent Engagement	5
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“This Is a Good Neighborhood. This Ain’t No Pittsburgh!”: Conflicting Narratives of Opioid Misuse within Rural School Districts and Communities	4
Warrants for Action: An Agenda for Continuous Improvement Research in Education	4
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“We Are Gonna Miss Too Many of Them”: Rurality, Race, and the History of Grow Your Own Teacher Programs	4
Pathways to Performance: The Experimental Impacts of Learning Trajectory-Oriented Formative Assessment in Mathematics	4
Cultural Reproduction Theory and Schooling: The Relationship between Student Capital and Opportunity to Learn	4
:Duck and Cover: Confronting and Correcting Dubious Practices in Education	4
Toward a Cohesive Union? Currents and Cleavages in State Civic Education Policy Discourses	4
Framing Leaders’ Discourses on College and Career Readiness	3
How Long Do Community Insiders and Outsiders Stay? Mathematics Teacher Preparation and Retention in an Urban School District	3
Cultura en Cuarentena: LatCrit Perspectives on Culturally Relevant Education during COVID-19	3
Direct and Indirect Impacts of Sociopolitical Contexts on Campus Climate: Student Perceptions and Experiences between 2016 and 2018	3
From Court to Classroom: Deportation Proceedings and Reading and Math Achievement for Elementary Students from 1998 to 2016	3
Referrals, Collaborative Actions, and Norm-Setting Practices: How College Access Programs Partner with High Schools	3
What Students and Teachers Do to Build Positive Reciprocal Relationships: A Study Co-Led by Youth and Adult Researchers	3
A Choice between Second Chances: An Analysis of How Students Address Course Failure	2
On Their Own? The Work-Related Social Interactions and Turnover of New Teachers	2
Front Matter	2
A Tale of Two Logics: School Discipline and Racial Disparities in a “Mostly White” Middle School	2
School Principals’ Time Use for Interaction with Individual Students: Macro Contexts, Organizational Conditions, and Student Outcomes	2
Teachers’ Unionization, Socioeconomic Status, and Student Performance in the United States	2
“Figuring Out My Part in All of This”: Understanding Ambiguity and Uncertainty in Shaping Teacher Learning within Reform	2
Professional Capital as Political Capital: Science Standards Reform in the United States	2
Power Dynamics and Positioning in Teacher Home Visits with Marginalized Families	1
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The Labor Market Trajectories of Tennessee Instructional Coaches and Teacher Peer Observers	1
The Color of Law School: Examining Gender and Race Intersectionality in Law School Admissions	1
“Love the One You’re With”: The Logic(s) of School Leaders’ Approaches to Human Capital Management	1
Opportunity for All: A Framework for Quality and Equality in Education by Jennifer A. O’Day and Marshall S. Smith. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2019. 296 pp., $34.00 (paper).	1
:The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth	1
Transportation Logics: How Charter School Leaders Make Choices about Student Transportation	1
Schoolwide Approaches for Promoting Social and Emotional Well-Being in Australian School Contexts: Focus Group Interviews with System and School Stakeholders	1
Front Matter	1
Interrogating the Relationship between Racial Activism and Academic Career Interest among STEM Doctoral Students	0
Racial Capitalism and Student Disposability in an Era of School Discipline Reform	0
The Language of Leaders: Executive Sensegiving Strategies in Higher Education	0
The Effects of Student Growth Data on School District Choice: Evidence from a Survey Experiment	0
Racial Taxation: Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869–1973by Camille Walsh. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 250 pp., $29.95 (paper).	0
Love and Meritocracy: Culturally Affirming Care and Cheating at an Urban High School	0
Moving Out and Apart: Race, Poverty, and the Suburbanization of Public School Segregation	0
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What You See Is Not What You Get: Science of Reading Reforms as a Guise for Standardization, Centralization, and Privatization	0
Creating the Suburban School Advantage: Race, Localism, and Inequality in an American Metropolis by John L. Rury. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. 276 pp., $39.95 (cloth).	0
Upholding Multilingual Learners’ Civil Rights under ESSA: State Education Agency Leaders and the Contextual Factors Shaping Their Work	0
Making Sense of Consensus: Disagreement in Student Survey Reports Can Help Identify Instructional Microclimates within Classrooms	0
Not Honors Material: The High Stakes of Educational Triage for Science Education	0
Belonging and Not Belonging: The Case of Newcomers in Diverse US Schools	0
Learning Together to Lead Together: Designing Professional Learning to Strengthen Principal and District Leadership for School Improvement	0
Variation in the Local Segregation of Latino Children—Role of Place, Poverty, and Culture	0
School’s Choice: How Charter Schools Control Access and Shape Enrollment by Wagma Mommandi and Kevin Welner. New York: Teachers College Press, 2021. 232 pp., US$36.95 (paper).	0
The Relation between the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and Special Education Research: A Systematic Review	0
Breaking the Mold: The One Social Class Model and Saving Face among Undocumented and Mixed-Status Chinese Immigrant Families	0

Continuous Improvement in Urban Districts: Bringing Environments Back In	0
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The Effect of Changes in Legal Institutions Weakening Teachers’ Unions on Districts’ Spending on Teacher Compensation	0
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Muddy Waters: The Micropolitics of Instructional Coaches’ Work in Evaluation	0
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Beyond Boundary Spanning: Theory and Learning in Research-Practice Partnerships	0
Beginning Teachers and Strategies for Asset-Based Pedagogy	0
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Immigrant Optimism and Ever-English Learners’ Journeys from Kindergarten to College in Texas	0
What’s Future Is Epilogue: The Uses of Higher Education History	0
From Central Office to Portfolio Manager in Three Cities: Responding to the Principal-Agent Problem	0
The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston by Cristina Viviana Groeger. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 384 pp., $35.00 (cloth).	0
Structural Stasis: Considering Education Leaders’ Efforts to Racially Diversify the Teaching Force	0
Mixed Messages and Diversity Management: Misalignment between District Intention and Action Aimed at Hiring Teachers of Color	0
Teaching Bias? Relations between Teaching Quality and Classroom Demographic Composition	0
“That Middle School Is Trash!!!” Public Knowledge about Local Schools on Social Media	0
Workforce Outcomes of Program Completers in High-Needs Endorsement Areas	0
:The Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement	0
Can’t Be What You Can’t See: The Role of Citizen Role Models in Immigrant Students’ Political Development	0
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More Money Is Not Enough: (Re)Considering Policy Proposals to Increase Federal Funding for Special Education	0
In the NIC of Time: How Sustainable Are Networked Improvement Communities?	0
From Fidelity to Integrity: Navigating Flexibility in Scaling Up a Statewide Initiative	0
Implementing along a Continuum: Comparing the Embedded Agency of Leaders and the Coupling Orientation of Educational Systems	0
“Losing My Craft”: Teachers’ Relational Work with Students during a Pandemic	0
Instructional Coordination for Response to Intervention: How Organizational Contexts Shape Tier 2 Interventions in Practice	0
“Smart Power” in Standards Implementation after No Child Left Behind	0
The Key Question: Which Mechanisms Encased in Race or Class Drive Segregation’s Effects?	0
“Chill Dudes” and “Academic-Type Students”: Relational Masculinity and Straddling Culture at an Urban High School	0
Does School Segregation Cause Achievement Gaps? Rejoinder to Fuller et al. (2022)	0
Is Responsiveness to Student Voice Related to Academic Outcomes? Strengthening the Rationale for Student Voice in School Reform	0
PK–12 District Leadership for Equity: An Exploration of Director Role Configurations and Vulnerabilities	0
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“What Makes You, You”: The Discursive Construction of the Self in US College Application Essays	0
The Moderating Role of Race and Ethnicity on Rural Adolescents’ Educational Expectations and Rural Residential Aspirations: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective	0
Stability of School Contributions to Student Social-Emotional Learning Gains	0
Late but Right on Time? School Start Times and Middle Grade Students’ Engagement and Achievement Outcomes in North Carolina	0
The Story of DACA as Told by Friends of the Court: The Role of Interest Convergence, Color-Evasiveness, and Exceptionality in Policy Discourse	0
Accomplishing System Reforms by Minding the Details: Developing Understandings for Collective Practice	0
:Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don’t Have To)	0