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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Academic Integrity Policies of Publicly Funded Universities in Western Canada	56
The Retention of Educators of Color Amidst Institutionalized Racism	41
Masking Attendance: How Education Policy Distracts from the Wicked Problem(s) of Chronic Absenteeism	35
Perpetuating Inequalities: The Role of Political Distraction in Education Policy	23
Principal Perceptions of the Distance Learning Transition During the Pandemic	20
Beyond Bathroom Bills and the Gender Identity Debate: Complicating the Policy Conversation About Supporting Trans Students in Schools	18
A Collaborative Problem-Solving Approach to Improving District Attendance Policy	15
“The Price of Disaster”: The Charter School Authorization Process in Post-Katrina New Orleans	12
YPAR Dreams Deferred? Examining Power Bases for YPAR to Impact Policy and Practice	12
White Fear, White Flight, the Rules of Racial Standing and Whiteness as Property: Why Two Critical Race Theory Constructs are Better Than One	12
Advancing Institutional Change to Encourage Faculty Participation in Research-Practice Partnerships	11
Research-Practice Partnerships in Pursuit of Racial Justice in Schools: Navigating a Hostile Sociopolitical Climate	11
Policy as Punishment and Distraction: The Double Helix of Racialized Sexual Harassment of Black Girls	11
The Importance of Being “Woke”: Charter Management Organizations and the Growth of Social Consciousness as a School Quality Marker	10
Conceptions and Practices of Equity in Research-Practice Partnerships	10
The Rhetoric of Teacher Evaluation: New York City Teachers’ Responses to Performance Labels	10
A Critical Race Analysis of University Acts of Racial “Redress”: The Limited Potential of Racial Symbols	10
Social Reproduction as Language Policy: The Neoliberal Co-option of English in Global Japan	10
Distractions and Defractions: Using Parental Rights to Fight Against the Educational Rights of Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender Diverse Students	9
Politics at the Boundary: Exploring Politics in Education Research-Practice Partnerships	9
Scaling Gender and Sexual Diversity Policies in K-12 Schools	9
The Politics of Student Voice: The Power and Potential of Students as Policy Actors	9
Youth of Color Social Movements for Racial Justice: The Politics of Interrogating the School-to-Prison Pipeline	9
Whose Agenda is It? Navigating the Politics of Setting the Research Agenda in Education Research-Practice Partnerships	9
The Bind of Unilateral Power Dynamics and Youth Voice in School Politics	9

The Signaling Power of Unexcused Absence from School	8
Estimating the Impact of Expulsions, Suspensions, and Arrests on Average School Proficiency Rates in Ohio Using Fixed Effects	8
Racialized Perceptions of Anticipated School Belonging	8
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	8
Educational Language Policy in Massachusetts: Discourses of the LOOK Act	7
Improving Understanding of English Learner Education Through an Expanded Analytic Framework	7
Segregation, Diversity, and Pathology: School Quality and Student Demographics in Gentrifying New York	7
Doctoral Degree Attainment From Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program Alumni: An Explanatory Embedded Case Study	7
Intermediary Public Policy Organizations and the Discursive Evasion of Systemic Racism and Racialized Violence	6
Racial Misdirection: How Anti-affirmative Action Crusaders use Distraction and Spectacle to Promote Incomplete Conceptions of Merit and Perpetuate Racial Inequality	6
A Critical Qualitative Study of Inequities in Hispanic-Serving Institutions’ Grant-Seeking Competitiveness	6
Political Considerations for Establishing Research-Practice Partnerships in Pursuit of Equity: Organizations, Projects, and Relationships	6
Timing and Frequency Matter: Same Race/Ethnicity Teacher and Student Achievement by School Level and Classroom Organization	6
Good Schools, Bad Schools: Race, School Quality, and Neoliberal Educational Policy	6
“School’s a Lie”: Toward Critical Race Intersectional Pedagogy for Youth Intellectual Activism in Policy Partnerships	6
Are Research-Practice Partnerships Responsive to Partners’ Needs? Exploring Research Activities During the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Changing the Composition of Beginning Teachers: The Role of State Alternative Certification Policies	6
STEM-Focused Career Courses and College Pipeline for Students with Learning Disabilities	5
Current Perspectives on Teacher Unionization, and What They’re Missing	5
Policy Diffusion of Performance Funding Equity Metrics: Traditional Neighbor and Dyadic Survival Analyses	5
A Gap in Culturally Responsive Classroom Management Coverage? A Critical Policy Analysis of States’ School Discipline Policies	5
The Creation of a Mental Health Policy in Higher Education	5
Special Education and Meritocratic Inclusion	4
National Evidence of the Relationship Between Dual Enrollment and Student Loan Debt	4
Meritocracy and Advantaged Parents’ Perceptions of the Fairness of School Choice Policies	4
Instructional Policy From Pre-K to Third Grade: The Challenges of Fostering Alignment and Continuity in Two School Districts	4
Unpacking the Power Dynamics of Funding Research-Practice Partnerships	4
A Replication of a Quasi-Experimental Approach to Estimating Middle School Structural Transition Effects on Student Learning Trajectories	4
“This is Not Who We Are”: Students Leading for Anti-Racist Policy Changes in Alexandria City Public Schools, Virginia	4
Black Girls in Mathematics: (Re)envisioning an Inclusive Parent Involvement Measure	4
Digital Redlining: The Relevance of 20th Century Housing Policy to 21st Century Broadband Access and Education	4
Achievement and Growth for English Learners	4
Designing for a Productive Politics of Participation in Research Practice Partnerships	4
Teacher Quality and Students’ Post-Secondary Outcomes	4
Leaders’ Negotiation of Teacher Evaluation Policy in Immigrant-Serving Schools	4
State ESSA Plans and Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) Status	4
On the Role of Teacher Unions in Social Justice	4
Equity and Early Implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act in State-Designed Plans During COVID	3
Understanding the Stakes: The Influence of Accountability Policy Options on Teachers’ Responses	3
Examining the Presence and Equitable Distribution of Instructional Coaching Programs and Coaches’ Teaching Expertise Across Tennessee Schools	3
Revisiting the “Decline” in Asian American and Pacific Islander Teachers	3
After the Race to the Top: State and District Capacity to Sustain Professional Development Innovation in Florida	3
Presence as Policy Action: Black Mothers as Policy Actors Navigating Antiblack Geopolitics	3
Fidelity, Rigor, and Relevance: How SEAs are Approaching the ESSA Evidence Requirements	3
School Counselors’ Perceptions and Understandings of Lockdown Drills: Navigating the Paradox of Safety and Fear	3
Student Voice in School Improvement: A Principal in the Nuevo South Reflects on a Student-Centered Practitioner Inquiry	3
It’s Complicated: Examining Political Realities and Challenges in the Context of Research-Practice Partnerships from the School District Leader’s Perspective	3
Accreditation Sanctions as Quality Signals in a Competitive Market for Students	3
Contemporary Homeschooling Arrangements: An Analysis of Three Waves of Nationally Representative Data	3
The Space Beyond Equity: A Blueprint of Radical Possibilities in School Design	3

State Education Agency Governance, Virtual Learning, and Student Privacy: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Paying for Preschool: Who Blends Funding in Early Childhood Education?	3
Religion, Cultural Politics, and Public Knowledge	3
Making Waves: Districts as Policy Mediators in the Flow of School Gentrification	3
Design Philanthropy: Challenges and Opportunities in the Evolution of Philanthropic Giving	3
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	3
“There Was Nothing Here”: School Leaders Using Dual Language Bilingual Education Programs as a Formula to Re-Engineer Student Populations for School Turnaround	2
Positionality in the Politics of Education: Mapping the Strategies and Constraints of Education Reformers	2
EL Policy and Immigrant Politics: State and Federal Policy and Ever-EL Students’ Postsecondary Pathways	2
Does It Matter Who Evaluates Teachers? Principal Versus Teacher-Led Evaluation and Teacher Motivation	2
Assessing the Predictive Validity of the Massachusetts Candidate Assessment of Performance	2
Conflict Theory, Extended: A Framework for Understanding Contemporary Struggles Over Education Policy	2
Power and Adult Support in Student Voice Efforts for Policy Change	2
A Difference-in-Difference Analysis of Shifts in Postsecondary Institution Spending Patterns in Response to “Promise” Financial Aid Programs	2
Getting to the Core of Credit Transfer: How Do Pre-Transfer Core Credits Predict Baccalaureate Attainment for Community College Transfer Students?	2
Understanding Florida’s HB7: A Policy of Intimidation by Confusion	2
Reading, Writing, Responding: Educators’ Perceptions of Safety, Preparedness, and Lockdown Drills	2
Becoming HOPEless in the 2-Year Sector	2
Indigenous Students and English Learner Identification: A Fifty-State Policy Review	2
Critical Translingual Perspectives on California Multilingual Education Policy	2
Different or Differentiated? Recoupling Policy and Practice in an Era of Accountability	2
Community Policing in Schools and School Resource Officer Transparency	2
Politics, Covid, and In-Person Instruction During the First Year of the Pandemic	2
Opportunity Structures for Student Activism, Diversity, and Institutional Change	2
Using an Emergency Plan to Combat Teacher Burnout Following a Natural Hazard	2
Segregate, Discriminate, Signal: A Model for Understanding Policy Drivers of Educational Inequality	2
The Political and Social Contexts of Research Evidence Use in Partnerships	2
Former Teachers: Exits and Re-Entries	2