OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Educational Policy is 2. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The Evolving Identities of HSI and Differentiated Funding	23
College Behind Bars: A Historiography of Higher Education in Prison	15
Race Placed: Special Education Identification and Placement of Black Students	15
STEM-Focused Career Courses and College Pipeline for Students with Learning Disabilities	14
Unpacking the Power Dynamics of Funding Research-Practice Partnerships	14
Former Teachers: Exits and Re-Entries	13
Investigating Arts Education Effects on School Engagement and Climate	13
Toward Race-Conscious Care-Based Healing to Support Latino Immigrant Youth	13
The Politics of School Funding: How State Political Ideology is Associated With the Allocation of Revenue to School Districts	12
Assessing the Predictive Validity of the Massachusetts Candidate Assessment of Performance	11
The Political and Social Contexts of Research Evidence Use in Partnerships	11
Power and Adult Support in Student Voice Efforts for Policy Change	11
Different or Differentiated? Recoupling Policy and Practice in an Era of Accountability	10
Community School Implementation in Rural Vermont	10
Conflict Theory, Extended: A Framework for Understanding Contemporary Struggles Over Education Policy	9
Critical Translingual Perspectives on California Multilingual Education Policy	9
After the Race to the Top: State and District Capacity to Sustain Professional Development Innovation in Florida	9
Segregation, Diversity, and Pathology: School Quality and Student Demographics in Gentrifying New York	9
The accountability paradigm post-NCLB: Policy Ideas and Moral Narratives	9
The Relationship Between Course Structure and Intensity, and Student Success in Developmental Education	9
Disenchanting Educational Policy and Leadership: An Introduction	8
Status Quo or Innovation? Transforming Teacher Education in Hostile Times	8
A Critical Qualitative Study of Inequities in Hispanic-Serving Institutions’ Grant-Seeking Competitiveness	8
Making Waves: Districts as Policy Mediators in the Flow of School Gentrification	8
Postsecondary Policy Environments in Citizen Legislatures	8

A Path Toward Racial Justice in Education: Anti-Racist Policy Decision Making in School Districts	8
Pipeline Philanthropy: Understanding Philanthropic Corporate Action in Education During the COVID-19 Era and Beyond	7
Scaling Gender and Sexual Diversity Policies in K-12 Schools	7
A Tale of Two Systems: Choice and Equity in the District of Columbia’s Charter Schools	7
Becoming HOPEless in the 2-Year Sector	7
What is the Role of Adult Facilitators in Critical Participatory Action Research? Employing Affective Labor While Navigating the Politics and the Perils Alongside Minoritized Youth Researchers	7
Partisan Predictors for Collective Bargaining Agreement Items	7
The Bind of Unilateral Power Dynamics and Youth Voice in School Politics	6
Indigenous Students and English Learner Identification: A Fifty-State Policy Review	6
How State Educational Agency Coordinators Navigate Logics of Local Control in Standards Implementation	6
Segregate, Discriminate, Signal: A Model for Understanding Policy Drivers of Educational Inequality	6
Religion, Cultural Politics, and Public Knowledge	6
Puerto Rican Student Activism and Enacting Consciousness in Chicago: Learned Lessons and Implications for Practice	6
Need-Based Promise Programs, Performance Funding Bonuses, and the Enrollment of Low-Income Students	6
Teacher Mental Health and District Employee Support in Rural Communities: A Sequential Exploratory Mixed Methods Study	5
How State Education Leaders Supported Students’ Access to Education Amidst the COVID-19 Crisis: Lessons for Policy	5
Developmental Education for College Students with Learning and Attention Disabilities	5
Not “Citizens in Waiting”: Student Counter-Narratives of Anti-Equity Campaigns	5
Interrogating Policy Diffusion in the Arts Education Sphere	5
Youth of Color Social Movements for Racial Justice: The Politics of Interrogating the School-to-Prison Pipeline	5
Revisiting the “Decline” in Asian American and Pacific Islander Teachers	5
A Framework for Deepening Racial Equity in Prenatal-Grade Three Systems: Lessons From a 10-Year Reflective Case Study	4
Online Credit Recovery as an Intervention for High School Students Who Fail Courses	4
The Perceptions and Experiences of Faculty Implementing Florida’s Developmental Education Reform	4
A Gap in Culturally Responsive Classroom Management Coverage? A Critical Policy Analysis of States’ School Discipline Policies	4
School Funding and Equity in Australia: Critical Moments in the Context of Text Production Phase of the Education Policy Cycle	4
Nationally Representative Evidence on the Association Between Preschool and School-Based Parental Involvement in Elementary School	4
On the Role of Teacher Unions in Social Justice	4
An Examination of State Statutes and School District Policies Addressing Minors With Do Not Resuscitate Orders	4
Achievement and Growth for English Learners	3
Child Education Rights Versus Parental Preferences: A Paradox Between United Nations Conventions and Alternative Schooling Methods	3
Examining U.S. Teachers’ Working Conditions in Online Schools	3
Historicizing Black Educational “Choice”: Toward Black Educational Self-Determination	3
Reading, Writing, Responding: Educators’ Perceptions of Safety, Preparedness, and Lockdown Drills	3
Does It Matter Who Evaluates Teachers? Principal Versus Teacher-Led Evaluation and Teacher Motivation	3
Principal Leadership of Pre-K Programs in Elementary Schools: Evidence from North Carolina	3
State ESSA Plans and Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) Status	3
The Creation of a Mental Health Policy in Higher Education	3
The Adoption of Test-Based Grade Retention Policies: An Event History Analysis	3
Evidence That a Greater Presence of Latinx Faculty or Administrators Raises the Completion Rates of Various Cohorts of Community College Students	3
The State of Elementary School Recess in Georgia: Policy, the Pandemic, and Patterns of Play	3
Whiteness and Ability: Discourses in Disability History Curriculum Legislation	3
A Landscape Analysis of State-Level School Counseling Policy: Perspectives from State Officials	3
Current Perspectives on Teacher Unionization, and What They’re Missing	3
Teachers Unions and Dual Enrollment Policy in Collective Bargaining Agreements	3
Does ESSA Assure the Use of Evidence-based Educational Practices?	3
Examining the Presence and Equitable Distribution of Instructional Coaching Programs and Coaches’ Teaching Expertise Across Tennessee Schools	3
Estimating the Impact of Expulsions, Suspensions, and Arrests on Average School Proficiency Rates in Ohio Using Fixed Effects	3
Advancing Institutional Change to Encourage Faculty Participation in Research-Practice Partnerships	3
The Boundaries of Competition: Examining Charter Schools’ Impact on Traditional Schools	3

It’s Complicated: Examining Political Realities and Challenges in the Context of Research-Practice Partnerships from the School District Leader’s Perspective	3
Ensuring Educational Continuity in the Midst of Crisis: Policy and Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Educational Policy: Analysis, Action, and Advocacy Across Contexts	3
Measuring Middle School Achievement Trajectories for College Readiness	2
State-Level Efforts to Reform Elementary Science Education	2
Moving Toward Integration or Segregation? Racial Change in Suburban Public Schools	2
Impacts of Viewpoint Diversity Law on Teaching and Learning in Florida’s State Universities	2
Social Reproduction as Language Policy: The Neoliberal Co-option of English in Global Japan	2
Forced to Choose: Lessons Learned from Families of Students Within Special Education	2
The Signaling Power of Unexcused Absence from School	2
Good Schools, Bad Schools: Race, School Quality, and Neoliberal Educational Policy	2
Changing the Composition of Beginning Teachers: The Role of State Alternative Certification Policies	2
The Choice and Evaluation of Sexual Harassment Interventions in Institutions of Higher Education	2
Attendance Practices in High-Absenteeism Districts	2
The Space Beyond Equity: A Blueprint of Radical Possibilities in School Design	2
A Shift in School Reform: Examining Site-Level Spending and Student Academic Growth	2
Novice Teachers and Student Attendance in Early Elementary School	2
Towards Anti-Carceral Leadership: Remaking Public Schools to Refuse Black Students’ Surveillance, Containment, and Control	2
Politics at the Boundary: Exploring Politics in Education Research-Practice Partnerships	2
Why Charter Teachers Unionize	2
Paying for Preschool: Who Blends Funding in Early Childhood Education?	2
Admissions Officers’ Perceptions When Undocumented Students Seek In-State Resident Tuition Policy	2
Retention and Educational Inequalities in the U.S.	2
Unpacking Legal Advancements for Asian American Students: A Political Discourse Analysis of Illinois’s House Bill 376	2
Instructional Policy From Pre-K to Third Grade: The Challenges of Fostering Alignment and Continuity in Two School Districts	2