OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Educational Researcher 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Transitional Kindergarten: The New Kid on the Early Learning Block	212
Case for Closing Superintendent Gender Gap: Pre-K Commitment	147
Exploring Deficit Beliefs Among High School Math Teachers	113
School Inclusion of Refugee Students: Recent Trends From International Data	100
College Canceled: What Happened to California’s High School Graduating Class of 2020?	68
The Widening Achievement Gap Between Rich and Poor in a Nordic Country	44
Decoding Sentiment Signals: Lessons From the Political Reception of the Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards	40
Has “Who Comes Back” Changed? Teacher Reentry 2000–2019	39
The Inequity of Opt-in Educational Resources and an Intervention to Increase Equitable Access	37
Shared Responsibility for Multilingual Learners Across Levels of the Education System	36
The Feasibility and Comparability of Using Artificial Intelligence for Qualitative Data Analysis in Equity-Focused Research	33
A Call for Data on the Principal Pipeline	33
The Effect of Right to Work Laws on Union Membership and School Resources: Evidence from 1942–2017	31
Teacher Working Conditions and Dissatisfaction Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic	30
Teacher Pension Reform Must Be About Cost and Design	27
Teachers’ Strategies for Supporting Transgender and/or Gender-Expansive Elementary School Students	27
Strategies to Better Identify Student Homelessness Using Data in an Urban School District	23
College Students’ Instructor Mindset Perceptions and First-Semester Development	23
Grow Your Own: An Umbrella Term for Very Different Localized Teacher Pipeline Programs	23
Language Views for Scientific Sensemaking Matter: A Synthesis of Research on Multilingual Students’ Experiences with Science Practices Through a Translanguaging Lens	22
Culturally Relevant Education as a Professional Responsibility	21
Replicating and Extending Effects of “Achievement Gap” Discourse	20
Misrepresented Funding Gaps in Data for Some States	20
Reviewing Concentrated Poverty Literature Through an Antiblackness Lens to Reveal a Concentrated Debt	20
Choosing Alone? Peer Continuity Disparities in Choice-Based Enrollment Systems	20

Disrupting White Supremacy and Anti-Black Racism in Educational Organizations	19
The Contribution of School Victimization to Sadness, Hopelessness, and Suicidal Ideation Among Bias-Based and Non-Bias-Based Victims and the Moderating Role of School Climate	19
Educators Are Not Alright: Mental Health During COVID-19	19
Why Black Teachers Matter	18
Portraying Teacher Education for Inclusion: An Analysis of the Institutional Discourse of Dual Certification Programs	18
School Discipline, Police Contact, and GPA: A Mediation Analysis	17
The Science of Voting: Coursetaking, Literacy, and Behavior	17
Making Catholic Schools Research Relevant: Assessing Contemporary Trends in the Field of Catholic Education	17
Race at the Top	17
Missing the Forest for the Trees: Toward a Networked Racial Analysis of White Parents in Education Policy and Research	16
Addressing the Disadvantage Gap Through Generative Learning: A Case for the Science Writing Heuristic Approach	16
The Relationships Between State Higher Education Funding Strategies and College Access and Success	15
Leveraging a University to Create Local Equity-Oriented K–12 Learning Opportunities: A Conversation Starter	15
A Quantitative Study of Mathematical Vocabulary Use in Upper Elementary Classrooms	15
There’s No Way for This to End Well: Lesson Planning, Neoliberalism, and Whiteness	14
Reviewer Acknowledgments	14
Still Climbing the Hill: Intersectional Reflections on Brown and Beyond	13
Attributes of Rigorous Grounded Theory Research and Reporting: Illustrations From a Grounded Theory of Adolescent Creativity	13
Incentivizing Retirement: An Analysis of Cash Retirement Incentives for Chicago Teachers	13
Principals’ Priorities, Teacher Evaluation, and Instructional Leadership	13
Responsible Innovation in Designing AI for Education: Attending to the “How,” the “for What,” the “for Whom,” and the “With Whom” in a Rapidly Growing Field	12
Unlocking Potential: Evaluation of a Digital Math Learning Solution	12
For What and for Whom? Expanding the Role of Research Syntheses for Diverse Stakeholders	11
The Effect of Faculty Research on Student Learning in College	11
“You Need to Be More Responsible”: The Myth of Meritocracy and Teachers’ Accounts of Homework Inequalities	11
Moving Through the Pipeline: Ethnic and Linguistic Disparities in Special Education from Birth Through Age Five	11
Fostering, Tailoring, Negotiating: The Complexities of Collaborative Coaching in Schools Under Pressure to Improve	10
Out-of-Class High School Experiences and Students’ College Aspirations	10
Antiblackness as Global Aspiration? Centering Black Studies in Global Higher Education Research	10
The Imperative for Social Foundations Revisited: A Technical Comment on Warren and Venzant Chambers (2020)	10
Academic Writing Skills in College Admissions Essays: Exploring Their Implications for Admissions Decisions and First-Semester Grade Point Average	9
Posts About Students on Facebook: A Data Ethics Perspective	9
“A Place for Everybody”: Students’ Perspectives on Inclusive Behavior in School	9
Improving Science Achievement—Is It Possible? Evaluating the Efficacy of a High School Chemistry and Physics Project-Based Learning Intervention	9
Situating Teacher Movement, Space, and Relationships to Pedagogy: A Visual Method and Framework	9
Denying Pathology While Implying It? Avoiding Person-Centered Pathology Traps in Counter-Deficit Research	9
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in School-Based Disability Identification	9
Conceptualizing Latinx vis-à-vis Race in Education Research	8
Differences in Trans Employees’ and Students’ School Experiences	8
Diminished Administrative Power Post- Loper : Implications for Education Research and Policy	8
Language and Special Education Status: 2009–2019 Tennessee Trends	8
A Cultural Explanation of Motivation-Achievement Paradox in Math	8
The Long-Term Impacts of Corequisite Mathematics Remediation with Statistics: Degree Completion and Wage Outcomes	8
College Students’ Sense of Belonging: A Graduation Update	8
2024 AERA Presidential Address Why Do Darker People Suffer the Most? Examining the Past to Imagine Racial Justice in Education	8
Waiving English Learner Services: Prevalence and Student Characteristics	7
2023 AERA Presidential Address A Framework for Designing Consequential Research	7
School Disruptions Exacerbated Inequality in High School Completion	7
Out-of-School Time Programs in the United States in an Era of Racial Reckoning: Insights on Equity From Practitioners, Scholars, Policy Influencers, and Young People	7
The Complex Terrain of Equity for Multilingual Learners in K–12 Education	6

Racial Justice Cannot Be Opt-In	6
A Critical Knowledge Praxis Framework for Educational Policymakers and Practitioners	6
Running Late: Student Commutes and High School Tardiness in Baltimore City	6
Black School Closings Aren’t New: Historically Contextualizing Contemporary School Closings and Black Community Resistance	6
Toward a Class-Conscious Approach to Cultural Responsiveness	6
The Ties That Bind: An Examination of School-Family Relationships and Middle School Discipline in New York City	5
How Did Colleges Disburse Emergency Aid During COVID-19? An Implementation Analysis of the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund	5
English-Learner-Classified Students and Absenteeism: A Within-Group Analysis of Missing School	5
Banking on Dual Credit: Broadening Opportunities to Earn College Credit in High School and the Transition to College	5
Teacher Self-Care Mandates as Institutional Gaslighting in a Neoliberal System	5
The Expansion of Corporate-Sponsored Tuition Benefits to America’s Low-Wage Workers	5
Service Delivery Models: Impacts for Students With and Without Disabilities	5
#scholar #famous #monster	5
Fiscal Federalism and K–12 Education Funding: Policy Lessons from Two Educational Crises	5
Is Meeting Enough? Differences in Frequency and Consequences of Academic Advising Appointments Between Marginalized and Mainstream College Students	5
Beyond Making a Statement: An Intersectional Framing of the Power and Possibilities of Positioning	5
The Need for Educational Research Engagement With Courts, Public Policy, and Practice in a Post-Dobbs Era	5
Critiquing Racial Literacy: Presenting a Continuum of Racial Literacies	5
Learning Science and Engineering From Videos and Games: A Randomized Trial of PBS KIDS The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!	5
Persistence of Poverty: How Measures of Socioeconomic Status Have Changed Over Time	5
Examining Power Through Practice in Continuous Improvement in Education	5
The Segregation Pandemic: Brown as Treatment or Placebo?	4
Corrigendum to “School Inclusion of Refugee Students: Recent Trends From International Data”	4
Do Students Improve Their Academic Achievement When Assigned to a Growth Mindset Teacher?	4
Test Score Patterns Across Three COVID-19-Impacted School Years	4
Who Becomes a Teacher When Entry Requirements Are Reduced? An Analysis of Emergency Licenses in Massachusetts	4
Lost to the System? A Descriptive Exploration of Teacher Candidates’ Career Paths	4
Ahead of the Game? Course-Taking Patterns Under a Math Pathways Reform	4
Transforming the Role of RPPs in Remaking Educational Systems	4
Teacher Turnover in Early Childhood Education: Longitudinal Evidence From the Universe of Publicly Funded Programs in Louisiana	4
Centering Ethnic-Racial Identity in Education Framework: A Culturally Affirming Approach to Home-School Collaborations With Black and Latine Youth and Families	4
Experimental Evidence on the Robustness of Coaching Supports in Teacher Education	4
Taking Note of Our Biases: How Language Patterns Reveal Bias Underlying the Use of Office Discipline Referrals in Exclusionary Discipline	4
“Othering” Through War: Depiction of Asians/Asian Americans in U.S. History Textbooks	4
Reply to “The Imperative for Social Foundations Revisited: A Technical Comment on Warren and Venzant Chambers (2020)"	4
Be(com)ing an Educational Researcher in the Global South (and Beyond): A Focus on the Research-Practice Relationship	3
Examining How White Teachers’ Interracial Contact Experiences Shape Their Self-Efficacy and School Choices	3
Why Do You Want to Be a Teacher? A Natural Language Processing Approach	3
Troublemakers? The Role of Frequent Teacher Referrers in Expanding Racial Disciplinary Disproportionalities	3
A Restorative Attempt to Bend the Binary: The Experiences of Genderqueer Students in a Restorative School District	3
Factors Affecting Students’ Likelihood to Access Feedback	3
Students Under Surveillance: Big Data Policing and Privacy Rights	3
When Race Becomes Capital: Diversity, Faculty Hiring, and the Entrenchment of Racial Capitalism in Higher Education	3
Does Free College “Work” for Adults? Enrollment Impacts of Michigan Reconnect	3
Timing and Duration of Student Homelessness and Educational Outcomes in Los Angeles	3
Documenting Their Decisions: How Undocumented Students Enroll and Persist in College	3
Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in the Relationship Between Children’s Early Literacy Skills and Third-Grade Outcomes: Lessons From a Kindergarten Readiness Assessment	3
In School, Engaged, on Track? The Effect of the Pandemic on Student Attendance, Course Grades, and Grade Retention in North Carolina	3
Mixed Signals? Economically (Dis)advantaged Students’ College Attendance Under Mandatory College and Career Readiness Assessments	3
Corrigendum to “Grow Your Own: An Umbrella Term for Very Different Localized Teacher Pipeline Programs”	2
What Have They Done? An Analysis of Data Generation Methods Funded by the Institute of Education Sciences	2
K–12 Civil Rights Complaints: A Nationwide Analysis	2
“So That I May Hope to Honor You”: Centering Wholeness, Agency, and Brilliance in Qualitative Research With Multiply Marginalized Young Children	2
What Do So-Called Critical Race Theory Bans Say?	2
16th Annual AERA Brown Lecture in Education Research “A Shade Less Offensive”: School Integration as Radical Inclusion in the Pursuit of Educational Equity	2
Bridging Educational Change and Social Justice: A Call to the Field	2
Redrawing Attendance Boundaries to Promote Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Elementary Schools	2
Teacher Exit and Educational Opportunity: Lessons From Career and Technical Education	2
White Christian Nationalism: What Is It, and Why Does It Matter for Educational Research?	2
Learning at the Boundaries of Research and Practice: A Framework for Understanding Research–Practice Partnerships	2
Transportation Inequities and School Choice: How Car, Public Transit, and School Bus Access Affect Families’ Options	2
Meal Vouchers Matter for Academic Attainment: A Community College Field Experiment	2
An Overlooked Explanation for Increasing Suicidality: LGBQ Stressors Felt by More Students	2
Effectiveness Research for Teacher Education	2
Teaching and Learning for Mutual Respect: A Framework for Disrupting Pervasive Power Asymmetries	2
Classroom Concentration of English Learners and Their Reading Growth	2
Commentary on Teacher Pension Papers	2
Trends in Early Childhood Educator Depression: Longitudinal Evidence Before and During COVID-19	2
Editors’ Introduction: Toward Trans Studies in K–12 Education	2
The Stability of Families’ Revealed Preferences for Schools	2
Poverty and the Brain: The New/Old Language of Cultural Deficit	2
22nd Annual AERA Brown Lecture in Education Research: Rethinking Brown When Diversity and Equity Are Imper	2