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

Article	Citations
Indigenous Students and English Learner Identification: A Fifty-State Policy Review	48
A Tale of Two Systems: Choice and Equity in the District of Columbia’s Charter Schools	31
A Path Toward Racial Justice in Education: Anti-Racist Policy Decision Making in School Districts	25
College Behind Bars: A Historiography of Higher Education in Prison	23
The Fragile Edge of Innovation: Examining Policy Resilience in State-Level K-12 Artificial Intelligence Guidance	21
The accountability paradigm post-NCLB: Policy Ideas and Moral Narratives	21
Substantial Early College Credit: A Complex Systems Perspective	20
Reform for “These” Kids: Neoliberal Reform, Theorized Target Populations, and Spatial Injustice	19
A Framework for Deepening Racial Equity in Prenatal-Grade Three Systems: Lessons From a 10-Year Reflective Case Study	16
The Adoption of Test-Based Grade Retention Policies: An Event History Analysis	15
Advancing Institutional Change to Encourage Faculty Participation in Research-Practice Partnerships	14
Equity and Early Implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act in State-Designed Plans During COVID	13
Putting Parental Pushback in Context: A Comparative Case Study of a School District’s Gender Policy-As-Practice	13
Pathways and Outcomes for Early-Career Teachers With Teaching Assistant Experience	13
Whiteness and Ability: Discourses in Disability History Curriculum Legislation	13
Community Policing in Schools and School Resource Officer Transparency	12
State Goals, Institutional Social Constructions, and Utah’s Postsecondary Education Governance Reform Efforts	12
Politics, Covid, and In-Person Instruction During the First Year of the Pandemic	12
High School Students’ Expectations and College Aspirations: Causes and Consequences	12
Associations Between Administrative Burden and Children’s ECE Stability During the Covid-19 Pandemic	11
Competency Based Education Pilot in Illinois: Preliminary Findings	11
Comparing the Costs of Online and Teacher-Directed Credit Recovery	10
Variation in English Learners’ Programmatic Experiences and Postsecondary Trajectories	10
Designing for a Productive Politics of Participation in Research Practice Partnerships	10
“Divisive” Education Legislation in the Midwest: A Critical Epistemic Policy Analysis	10

Comparing the Role of Attitudes on the Enactment of Academic and Non-Academic Education Performance Indicators	10
Governing Generative Artificial Intelligence: Institutional Policies and Guidelines at America’s Flagship Universities	9
Disenchanting Educational Policy and Leadership: An Introduction	9
The Paradox of School Choice? Experimental Evidence on Choice Architecture, Anxiety, and Satisfaction	9
Unpacking the Power Dynamics of Funding Research-Practice Partnerships	9
Different or Differentiated? Recoupling Policy and Practice in an Era of Accountability	9
Teacher Mental Health and District Employee Support in Rural Communities: A Sequential Exploratory Mixed Methods Study	9
The Boundaries of Competition: Examining Charter Schools’ Impact on Traditional Schools	8
How State Education Leaders Supported Students’ Access to Education Amidst the COVID-19 Crisis: Lessons for Policy	8
Educational Policy: Analysis, Action, and Advocacy Across Contexts	8
Principal Leadership of Pre-K Programs in Elementary Schools: Evidence from North Carolina	8
Moving Toward Integration or Segregation? Racial Change in Suburban Public Schools	7
Retention and Educational Inequalities in the U.S.	7
An Empirically Derived Framework for Building Strong Outdoor Education Partnerships	7
Inclusive Emergency Preparedness as a Lever for School Improvement	7
Child Education Rights Versus Parental Preferences: A Paradox Between United Nations Conventions and Alternative Schooling Methods	7
Does It Matter Who Evaluates Teachers? Principal Versus Teacher-Led Evaluation and Teacher Motivation	7
The Choice and Evaluation of Sexual Harassment Interventions in Institutions of Higher Education	7
Hot Leadership, Cool Leadership: How Education Policies are Implemented (and Ignored) in Schools	6
Equitable Compensation to Attract and Retain Qualified Teachers in High-Need Alaska Public Schools	6
Adolescents’ Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors, Mental Health, and Access to School Counselors: Evidence from Georgia	6
The Madness Behind the Method: What’s Really Beneath Anti-Critical Race Theory Legislation	6
An Event History Analysis of the Policy Adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards	6
Educational Philanthropy’s “Racial Reckoning” in the Wake of 2020: Understanding Grantmakers’ Responses to Racialized Crises	5
The Expansion of Title V: A Historical Analysis of the Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans Program	5
Food Insecurity and Student Absence in the US and Across the Globe	5
Collaborator or Accomplice? A National Examination of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in School District Discipline Policy	5
Racialized Decoupling and Race-Neutral School Integration Policies From the Implementers’ Perspective	5
Reconsidering Determinants of Title IX Compliance: Introducing Admission Factors Disaggregated by Gender and Female Athletic Expenditures	5
Personalized Learning Policy and Student Voice: A Statewide Case Study	5
Whose Agenda is It? Navigating the Politics of Setting the Research Agenda in Education Research-Practice Partnerships	5
“There Was Nothing Here”: School Leaders Using Dual Language Bilingual Education Programs as a Formula to Re-Engineer Student Populations for School Turnaround	5
The Evolution of Coaching as a Policy Instrument: How a District Engages in Organizational Learning	5
Digital Redlining: The Relevance of 20th Century Housing Policy to 21st Century Broadband Access and Education	5
Public University Degree Audits: Who Incurs Excess Credit and Why	5
Opportunity Structures for Student Activism, Diversity, and Institutional Change	5
Not “Citizens in Waiting”: Student Counter-Narratives of Anti-Equity Campaigns	4
Does ESSA Assure the Use of Evidence-based Educational Practices?	4
Admissions Officers’ Perceptions When Undocumented Students Seek In-State Resident Tuition Policy	4
It’s Complicated: Examining Political Realities and Challenges in the Context of Research-Practice Partnerships from the School District Leader’s Perspective	4
The Political and Social Contexts of Research Evidence Use in Partnerships	4
Novice Teachers and Student Attendance in Early Elementary School	4
Unpacking Legal Advancements for Asian American Students: A Political Discourse Analysis of Illinois’s House Bill 376	4
Beyond the Parameters of “Choice”: An Obliterated Vision for Traditional Public Schooling and the Contamination of the New Orleans Charter Restart Model	4
A Critical Qualitative Study of Inequities in Hispanic-Serving Institutions’ Grant-Seeking Competitiveness	4
State-Level Efforts to Reform Elementary Science Education	4
Institutional Transfer Logics Among Community College and University Stakeholders	4
Using Predictive Analytics to Allocate Educational Resources: An Application to Career and Technical Education	4
Noncognitive Factors and Student Long-Run Success: Comparing the Predictive Validity of Observable Academic Behaviors and Social-Emotional Skills	3
Educational Stakeholder Sensemaking on Preparing CTE Students for Sub-Baccalaureate Pathways	3

Adolescent Math Anxiety: Teachers’ Grouping Approach at the Intersection of Multiple Student Identities	3
Conceptions and Practices of Equity in Research-Practice Partnerships	3
Conceptualizing State Re-Engagement With Public Higher Education	3
State Education Agency Governance, Virtual Learning, and Student Privacy: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Artificial Intelligence Governance in K-12 School Districts: Mapping Variation in Generative AI Policy Across Three Southeastern U.S. States	3
STEM Education and the Contradictory Realities of School Policies	3
Chronic Absenteeism in Detroit’s Brightmoor Neighborhood: Addressing Systemic & Structural Inequities Through Participatory Action Research	3
The Challenge of Measuring Instructional Coach Effectiveness	3
The Varying Impacts of Merit-Aid Policy Design on Enrollment, Retention, and Graduation at Public Four-Year Colleges and Universities	3
Mapping the Field of Shared Governance: Understanding the Landscape of Staff Representation Mechanisms in the American South	3
Race Placed: Special Education Identification and Placement of Black Students	2
School Districts as Invasive Actors in a Market School Choice Environment	2
Research-Practice Partnerships in Pursuit of Racial Justice in Schools: Navigating a Hostile Sociopolitical Climate	2
The State of Elementary School Recess in Georgia: Policy, the Pandemic, and Patterns of Play	2
Understanding the Stakes: The Influence of Accountability Policy Options on Teachers’ Responses	2
Ensuring Educational Continuity in the Midst of Crisis: Policy and Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Need-Based Promise Programs, Performance Funding Bonuses, and the Enrollment of Low-Income Students	2
Historicizing Black Educational “Choice”: Toward Black Educational Self-Determination	2
The Politics of School Funding: How State Political Ideology is Associated With the Allocation of Revenue to School Districts	2
Examining U.S. Teachers’ Working Conditions in Online Schools	2
Effect of International Roommates on College Outcomes: Evidence from Students of Disadvantaged Backgrounds	2
Critical Translingual Perspectives on California Multilingual Education Policy	2
Rezoning Educational Opportunities: The Relationship Between School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes and Access to Schools of Varying Quality	2
Student Homelessness in a County Governance Landscape: Fragmented Systems, Disconnected Schools	2
An Examination of State Statutes and School District Policies Addressing Minors With Do Not Resuscitate Orders	2
Postsecondary Policy Environments in Citizen Legislatures	2
Assessing the Predictive Validity of the Massachusetts Candidate Assessment of Performance	2
The Impact of State Principal Evaluation Policies on Equity for Economically Disadvantaged Students	2
Pipeline Philanthropy: Understanding Philanthropic Corporate Action in Education During the COVID-19 Era and Beyond	2
School Funding and Equity in Australia: Critical Moments in the Context of Text Production Phase of the Education Policy Cycle	2
Meritocracy and Advantaged Parents’ Perceptions of the Fairness of School Choice Policies	2
Using an Emergency Plan to Combat Teacher Burnout Following a Natural Hazard	2
Paying for Preschool: Who Blends Funding in Early Childhood Education?	2