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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The accountability paradigm post-NCLB: Policy Ideas and Moral Narratives	25
A Path Toward Racial Justice in Education: Anti-Racist Policy Decision Making in School Districts	22
College Behind Bars: A Historiography of Higher Education in Prison	17
Indigenous Students and English Learner Identification: A Fifty-State Policy Review	17
A Tale of Two Systems: Choice and Equity in the District of Columbia’s Charter Schools	17
Advancing Institutional Change to Encourage Faculty Participation in Research-Practice Partnerships	15
Reform for “These” Kids: Neoliberal Reform, Theorized Target Populations, and Spatial Injustice	15
The Perceptions and Experiences of Faculty Implementing Florida’s Developmental Education Reform	13
A Framework for Deepening Racial Equity in Prenatal-Grade Three Systems: Lessons From a 10-Year Reflective Case Study	12
The Adoption of Test-Based Grade Retention Policies: An Event History Analysis	12
A Gap in Culturally Responsive Classroom Management Coverage? A Critical Policy Analysis of States’ School Discipline Policies	11
On the Role of Teacher Unions in Social Justice	11
Whiteness and Ability: Discourses in Disability History Curriculum Legislation	10
State Goals, Institutional Social Constructions, and Utah’s Postsecondary Education Governance Reform Efforts	10
High School Students’ Expectations and College Aspirations: Causes and Consequences	10
Politics, Covid, and In-Person Instruction During the First Year of the Pandemic	9
Comparing the Costs of Online and Teacher-Directed Credit Recovery	9
“This is Not Who We Are”: Students Leading for Anti-Racist Policy Changes in Alexandria City Public Schools, Virginia	9
Designing for a Productive Politics of Participation in Research Practice Partnerships	9
Improving Understanding of English Learner Education Through an Expanded Analytic Framework	9
Equity and Early Implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act in State-Designed Plans During COVID	9
Competency Based Education Pilot in Illinois: Preliminary Findings	9
Comparing the Role of Attitudes on the Enactment of Academic and Non-Academic Education Performance Indicators	9
Community Policing in Schools and School Resource Officer Transparency	9
Associations Between Administrative Burden and Children’s ECE Stability During the Covid-19 Pandemic	9

Different or Differentiated? Recoupling Policy and Practice in an Era of Accountability	8
Unpacking the Power Dynamics of Funding Research-Practice Partnerships	8
“Divisive” Education Legislation in the Midwest: A Critical Epistemic Policy Analysis	8
STEM-Focused Career Courses and College Pipeline for Students with Learning Disabilities	8
Principal Perceptions of the Distance Learning Transition During the Pandemic	8
Teacher Mental Health and District Employee Support in Rural Communities: A Sequential Exploratory Mixed Methods Study	7
How State Education Leaders Supported Students’ Access to Education Amidst the COVID-19 Crisis: Lessons for Policy	7
Disenchanting Educational Policy and Leadership: An Introduction	7
State ESSA Plans and Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) Status	6
The Boundaries of Competition: Examining Charter Schools’ Impact on Traditional Schools	6
Educational Policy: Analysis, Action, and Advocacy Across Contexts	6
The Signaling Power of Unexcused Absence from School	6
Principal Leadership of Pre-K Programs in Elementary Schools: Evidence from North Carolina	6
Does It Matter Who Evaluates Teachers? Principal Versus Teacher-Led Evaluation and Teacher Motivation	6
Child Education Rights Versus Parental Preferences: A Paradox Between United Nations Conventions and Alternative Schooling Methods	6
The Importance of Being “Woke”: Charter Management Organizations and the Growth of Social Consciousness as a School Quality Marker	5
Good Schools, Bad Schools: Race, School Quality, and Neoliberal Educational Policy	5
Retention and Educational Inequalities in the U.S.	5
Personalized Learning Policy and Student Voice: A Statewide Case Study	5
Hot Leadership, Cool Leadership: How Education Policies are Implemented (and Ignored) in Schools	5
The Madness Behind the Method: What’s Really Beneath Anti-Critical Race Theory Legislation	5
Equitable Compensation to Attract and Retain Qualified Teachers in High-Need Alaska Public Schools	5
The Rhetoric of Teacher Evaluation: New York City Teachers’ Responses to Performance Labels	5
The Expansion of Title V: A Historical Analysis of the Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans Program	5
Digital Redlining: The Relevance of 20th Century Housing Policy to 21st Century Broadband Access and Education	5
Moving Toward Integration or Segregation? Racial Change in Suburban Public Schools	5
Whose Agenda is It? Navigating the Politics of Setting the Research Agenda in Education Research-Practice Partnerships	5
The Choice and Evaluation of Sexual Harassment Interventions in Institutions of Higher Education	5
The Politics of Student Voice: The Power and Potential of Students as Policy Actors	4
Leaders’ Negotiation of Teacher Evaluation Policy in Immigrant-Serving Schools	4
YPAR Dreams Deferred? Examining Power Bases for YPAR to Impact Policy and Practice	4
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	4
Racialized Decoupling and Race-Neutral School Integration Policies From the Implementers’ Perspective	4
Opportunity Structures for Student Activism, Diversity, and Institutional Change	4
“School’s a Lie”: Toward Critical Race Intersectional Pedagogy for Youth Intellectual Activism in Policy Partnerships	4
“There Was Nothing Here”: School Leaders Using Dual Language Bilingual Education Programs as a Formula to Re-Engineer Student Populations for School Turnaround	4
A Critical Qualitative Study of Inequities in Hispanic-Serving Institutions’ Grant-Seeking Competitiveness	4
The Evolution of Coaching as a Policy Instrument: How a District Engages in Organizational Learning	4
Public University Degree Audits: Who Incurs Excess Credit and Why	4
Educational Philanthropy’s “Racial Reckoning” in the Wake of 2020: Understanding Grantmakers’ Responses to Racialized Crises	4
Scaling Gender and Sexual Diversity Policies in K-12 Schools	4
The Political and Social Contexts of Research Evidence Use in Partnerships	4
Neoliberalism in Decline? New Pluralists Recast Schools in Los Angeles	3
It’s Complicated: Examining Political Realities and Challenges in the Context of Research-Practice Partnerships from the School District Leader’s Perspective	3
State-Level Efforts to Reform Elementary Science Education	3
Not “Citizens in Waiting”: Student Counter-Narratives of Anti-Equity Campaigns	3
Beyond the Parameters of “Choice”: An Obliterated Vision for Traditional Public Schooling and the Contamination of the New Orleans Charter Restart Model	3
Educational Stakeholder Sensemaking on Preparing CTE Students for Sub-Baccalaureate Pathways	3
Chronic Absenteeism in Detroit’s Brightmoor Neighborhood: Addressing Systemic & Structural Inequities Through Participatory Action Research	3
Unpacking Legal Advancements for Asian American Students: A Political Discourse Analysis of Illinois’s House Bill 376	3

Segregation, Diversity, and Pathology: School Quality and Student Demographics in Gentrifying New York	3
Admissions Officers’ Perceptions When Undocumented Students Seek In-State Resident Tuition Policy	3
Noncognitive Factors and Student Long-Run Success: Comparing the Predictive Validity of Observable Academic Behaviors and Social-Emotional Skills	3
Contemporary Homeschooling Arrangements: An Analysis of Three Waves of Nationally Representative Data	3
Novice Teachers and Student Attendance in Early Elementary School	3
State Education Agency Governance, Virtual Learning, and Student Privacy: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Does ESSA Assure the Use of Evidence-based Educational Practices?	3
Conceptualizing State Re-Engagement With Public Higher Education	3
Critical Translingual Perspectives on California Multilingual Education Policy	2
Race Placed: Special Education Identification and Placement of Black Students	2
Research-Practice Partnerships in Pursuit of Racial Justice in Schools: Navigating a Hostile Sociopolitical Climate	2
Assessing the Predictive Validity of the Massachusetts Candidate Assessment of Performance	2
Instructional Policy From Pre-K to Third Grade: The Challenges of Fostering Alignment and Continuity in Two School Districts	2
Revisiting the “Decline” in Asian American and Pacific Islander Teachers	2
Reading, Writing, Responding: Educators’ Perceptions of Safety, Preparedness, and Lockdown Drills	2
An Examination of State Statutes and School District Policies Addressing Minors With Do Not Resuscitate Orders	2
The Politics of School Funding: How State Political Ideology is Associated With the Allocation of Revenue to School Districts	2
After the Race to the Top: State and District Capacity to Sustain Professional Development Innovation in Florida	2
Effect of International Roommates on College Outcomes: Evidence from Students of Disadvantaged Backgrounds	2
Changing the Composition of Beginning Teachers: The Role of State Alternative Certification Policies	2
Power and Adult Support in Student Voice Efforts for Policy Change	2
Paying for Preschool: Who Blends Funding in Early Childhood Education?	2
The Creation of a Mental Health Policy in Higher Education	2
Need-Based Promise Programs, Performance Funding Bonuses, and the Enrollment of Low-Income Students	2
School Funding and Equity in Australia: Critical Moments in the Context of Text Production Phase of the Education Policy Cycle	2
Postsecondary Policy Environments in Citizen Legislatures	2
Pipeline Philanthropy: Understanding Philanthropic Corporate Action in Education During the COVID-19 Era and Beyond	2
Conceptions and Practices of Equity in Research-Practice Partnerships	2
STEM Education and the Contradictory Realities of School Policies	2
Ensuring Educational Continuity in the Midst of Crisis: Policy and Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Puerto Rican Student Activism and Enacting Consciousness in Chicago: Learned Lessons and Implications for Practice	2
Historicizing Black Educational “Choice”: Toward Black Educational Self-Determination	2
Examining U.S. Teachers’ Working Conditions in Online Schools	2
The State of Elementary School Recess in Georgia: Policy, the Pandemic, and Patterns of Play	2