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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Indigenous Students and English Learner Identification: A Fifty-State Policy Review	39
College Behind Bars: A Historiography of Higher Education in Prison	28
A Tale of Two Systems: Choice and Equity in the District of Columbia’s Charter Schools	22
A Path Toward Racial Justice in Education: Anti-Racist Policy Decision Making in School Districts	20
Putting Parental Pushback in Context: A Comparative Case Study of a School District’s Gender Policy-As-Practice	18
The accountability paradigm post-NCLB: Policy Ideas and Moral Narratives	18
Reform for “These” Kids: Neoliberal Reform, Theorized Target Populations, and Spatial Injustice	17
The Adoption of Test-Based Grade Retention Policies: An Event History Analysis	17
Advancing Institutional Change to Encourage Faculty Participation in Research-Practice Partnerships	16
A Framework for Deepening Racial Equity in Prenatal-Grade Three Systems: Lessons From a 10-Year Reflective Case Study	14
Whiteness and Ability: Discourses in Disability History Curriculum Legislation	13
State Goals, Institutional Social Constructions, and Utah’s Postsecondary Education Governance Reform Efforts	13
Equity and Early Implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act in State-Designed Plans During COVID	12
High School Students’ Expectations and College Aspirations: Causes and Consequences	12
Comparing the Role of Attitudes on the Enactment of Academic and Non-Academic Education Performance Indicators	10
Politics, Covid, and In-Person Instruction During the First Year of the Pandemic	10
“Divisive” Education Legislation in the Midwest: A Critical Epistemic Policy Analysis	10
Community Policing in Schools and School Resource Officer Transparency	10
Variation in English Learners’ Programmatic Experiences and Postsecondary Trajectories	10
Competency Based Education Pilot in Illinois: Preliminary Findings	9
Designing for a Productive Politics of Participation in Research Practice Partnerships	9
Unpacking the Power Dynamics of Funding Research-Practice Partnerships	9
Comparing the Costs of Online and Teacher-Directed Credit Recovery	9
Different or Differentiated? Recoupling Policy and Practice in an Era of Accountability	9
The Paradox of School Choice? Experimental Evidence on Choice Architecture, Anxiety, and Satisfaction	9

Associations Between Administrative Burden and Children’s ECE Stability During the Covid-19 Pandemic	9
Disenchanting Educational Policy and Leadership: An Introduction	9
Does It Matter Who Evaluates Teachers? Principal Versus Teacher-Led Evaluation and Teacher Motivation	8
An Empirically Derived Framework for Building Strong Outdoor Education Partnerships	8
Moving Toward Integration or Segregation? Racial Change in Suburban Public Schools	8
Principal Leadership of Pre-K Programs in Elementary Schools: Evidence from North Carolina	8
How State Education Leaders Supported Students’ Access to Education Amidst the COVID-19 Crisis: Lessons for Policy	8
Child Education Rights Versus Parental Preferences: A Paradox Between United Nations Conventions and Alternative Schooling Methods	8
The Boundaries of Competition: Examining Charter Schools’ Impact on Traditional Schools	8
Teacher Mental Health and District Employee Support in Rural Communities: A Sequential Exploratory Mixed Methods Study	8
Educational Policy: Analysis, Action, and Advocacy Across Contexts	7
Whose Agenda is It? Navigating the Politics of Setting the Research Agenda in Education Research-Practice Partnerships	7
An Event History Analysis of the Policy Adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards	7
Adolescents’ Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors, Mental Health, and Access to School Counselors: Evidence from Georgia	7
The Choice and Evaluation of Sexual Harassment Interventions in Institutions of Higher Education	7
Digital Redlining: The Relevance of 20th Century Housing Policy to 21st Century Broadband Access and Education	6
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
The Madness Behind the Method: What’s Really Beneath Anti-Critical Race Theory Legislation	6
Opportunity Structures for Student Activism, Diversity, and Institutional Change	5
Public University Degree Audits: Who Incurs Excess Credit and Why	5
Retention and Educational Inequalities in the U.S.	5
Food Insecurity and Student Absence in the US and Across the Globe	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
Personalized Learning Policy and Student Voice: A Statewide Case Study	5
Reconsidering Determinants of Title IX Compliance: Introducing Admission Factors Disaggregated by Gender and Female Athletic Expenditures	5
Racialized Decoupling and Race-Neutral School Integration Policies From the Implementers’ Perspective	5
A Critical Qualitative Study of Inequities in Hispanic-Serving Institutions’ Grant-Seeking Competitiveness	5
The Expansion of Title V: A Historical Analysis of the Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans Program	5
The Evolution of Coaching as a Policy Instrument: How a District Engages in Organizational Learning	5
Educational Philanthropy’s “Racial Reckoning” in the Wake of 2020: Understanding Grantmakers’ Responses to Racialized Crises	5
Unpacking Legal Advancements for Asian American Students: A Political Discourse Analysis of Illinois’s House Bill 376	4
Does ESSA Assure the Use of Evidence-based Educational Practices?	4
Institutional Transfer Logics Among Community College and University Stakeholders	4
The Political and Social Contexts of Research Evidence Use in Partnerships	4
State-Level Efforts to Reform Elementary Science Education	4
Using Predictive Analytics to Allocate Educational Resources: An Application to Career and Technical Education	4
Not “Citizens in Waiting”: Student Counter-Narratives of Anti-Equity Campaigns	4
It’s Complicated: Examining Political Realities and Challenges in the Context of Research-Practice Partnerships from the School District Leader’s Perspective	4
Novice Teachers and Student Attendance in Early Elementary School	4
State Education Agency Governance, Virtual Learning, and Student Privacy: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Chronic Absenteeism in Detroit’s Brightmoor Neighborhood: Addressing Systemic & Structural Inequities Through Participatory Action Research	3
Conceptualizing State Re-Engagement With Public Higher Education	3
Mapping the Field of Shared Governance: Understanding the Landscape of Staff Representation Mechanisms in the American South	3
Conceptions and Practices of Equity in Research-Practice Partnerships	3
Beyond the Parameters of “Choice”: An Obliterated Vision for Traditional Public Schooling and the Contamination of the New Orleans Charter Restart Model	3
Contemporary Homeschooling Arrangements: An Analysis of Three Waves of Nationally Representative Data	3
Effect of International Roommates on College Outcomes: Evidence from Students of Disadvantaged Backgrounds	3
Adolescent Math Anxiety: Teachers’ Grouping Approach at the Intersection of Multiple Student Identities	3
The Challenge of Measuring Instructional Coach Effectiveness	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
The Varying Impacts of Merit-Aid Policy Design on Enrollment, Retention, and Graduation at Public Four-Year Colleges and Universities	3
Educational Stakeholder Sensemaking on Preparing CTE Students for Sub-Baccalaureate Pathways	3
Historicizing Black Educational “Choice”: Toward Black Educational Self-Determination	2
Postsecondary Policy Environments in Citizen Legislatures	2
The Disruptive Power of Policy Erasure: How State Legislators and School Boards Fail to Take up Trans-affirming Policies While Leaning into Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies	2
Rezoning Educational Opportunities: The Relationship Between School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes and Access to Schools of Varying Quality	2
School Funding and Equity in Australia: Critical Moments in the Context of Text Production Phase of the Education Policy Cycle	2
Charter Authorizing, Applications, and the Needs of Historically Marginalized Students: A Cross State Analysis	2
Pipeline Philanthropy: Understanding Philanthropic Corporate Action in Education During the COVID-19 Era and Beyond	2
Ensuring Educational Continuity in the Midst of Crisis: Policy and Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
The Impact of State Principal Evaluation Policies on Equity for Economically Disadvantaged Students	2
Critical Translingual Perspectives on California Multilingual Education Policy	2
Need-Based Promise Programs, Performance Funding Bonuses, and the Enrollment of Low-Income Students	2
Assessing the Predictive Validity of the Massachusetts Candidate Assessment of Performance	2
Meritocracy and Advantaged Parents’ Perceptions of the Fairness of School Choice Policies	2
Race Placed: Special Education Identification and Placement of Black Students	2
Using an Emergency Plan to Combat Teacher Burnout Following a Natural Hazard	2
Student Homelessness in a County Governance Landscape: Fragmented Systems, Disconnected Schools	2
STEM Education and the Contradictory Realities of School Policies	2
Research-Practice Partnerships in Pursuit of Racial Justice in Schools: Navigating a Hostile Sociopolitical Climate	2
An Examination of State Statutes and School District Policies Addressing Minors With Do Not Resuscitate Orders	2
Recasting Race-Conscious Admissions: Sylvia Wynter and Higher Education Policy After “Man”	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
The Politics of School Funding: How State Political Ideology is Associated With the Allocation of Revenue to School Districts	2
Paying for Preschool: Who Blends Funding in Early Childhood Education?	2
Understanding the Stakes: The Influence of Accountability Policy Options on Teachers’ Responses	2
School Districts as Invasive Actors in a Market School Choice Environment	2