OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Urban Education is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Middle School Teachers and Undergraduate Mentors Collaborating for Culturally Relevant STEM Education	48
Engaged Learning as a Pathway Towards Supporting Hispanic Students at Urban Universities	34
Seeking Support in Teacher Education for Racial Knowledge: The Role of Professional Networks and Social Identities	23
Staying Close to Home: A Descriptive Analysis of the High School Graduates Who Return to Teach in Their Home District	18
Urban School District Performance: A Longitudinal Analysis of Achievement	18
Can Decentralized School Systems Pursue Common Ends? An Analysis of Urban Catholic School and System Leaders’ Perceptions of Reform	16
Black Englishes and the Global Multilingual Imperative: Toward a Transnational Ethos in Urban Education	15
When and Where We Enter: Introduction to the Special Issue	14
Teacher Activism in “Terrible Cities”: Chronicles of Agency and Resistance in Phoenix and Milwaukee	12
Conceptualizing Intersectional Harm in Mathematics Classrooms: An Analysis of High School Black Girls' Experiences	11
Understanding Perceptions, Barriers, and Opportunities around Restorative Justice in Urban High Schools	11
Book Review: Black Lives Matter at School: Community Schools, COVID-19 and Freedom Dreams	10
Book Review: Cultivating genius: An equity framework for culturally and historically responsive literacy	10
“What's Happening Baby?” Lessons with My First Teacher, Mrs. Mary M. Temple Rhodes	10
Saved by the Bell Schedule? The Effects of a Later School Start Time on High Schoolers in an Urban District	10
Separate and Unequal in St. Louis? Strengths and Limitations of School-Level Funding Data Using a QuantCrit Framework	10
Saved by the School Community Strategy: School-Community Alliances for Promoting School Success in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods During Times of Austerity	10
You Can’t Steal My Joy! Practices and Possibilities for Black Joy in Urban Education	9
A Systematic Literature Review of Research on Teacher Empowerment	9
Book Review: Promoting Teacher Advocacy as Critical Teacher Leadership	9
“What Do I Need That For?”: The Misalignment of Masculinity and College Preparation in an Urban School	9
“Inter-District School Transfers and the Role of Educators in Black Students’ Sense of School Belonging”	9
Organizational Ecology's Contagion Growth Perspective in the Study of Standalone Charter Schools in New York City	9
Disposable Spaces: How Special Education Enrollment Affects School Closures	8
Reimagining Internal Transformational Resistance in High School Ethnic Studies	8

Critical Inquiry Groups as Sites for Learning about Race and Racism	8
“I Feel Like I Belong, and I Know Why I Belong”: An Intersectional Identity-Affirming Counterspace	8
Black Lives Still Matter: Freedom Schools as an Embodiment of Critical Literacy Through Reflection and Action	8
Career and Technical Education's Unequal Dividends for High School Students: The Stratification of a New Generation	7
“Love is the Root of all Social Justice Work”: Radical Love, STEM Preservice Teacher Education, and Negotiating Social Justice Understandings	7
Race, Education and #BlackLivesMatter: How Online Transformational Resistance Shapes the Offline Experiences of Black College-Age Women	7
It's Just the Wilson Way: Investigating the Extended Impact of an Elementary Full-Service Community School Initiative on Middle School STEM-Related Outcomes	7
A Bricoleur Teacher Institute: Re-Imagining Pre-Service Teacher Preparation Through Social Movement Theorizing	7
Internal, Moral, and Market Accountability: Leading Urban Schools During the Covid-19 Pandemic	7
Using an Iterative Approach to Systematically Observe Culturally Responsive Practices Across Classrooms	7
Riding the Yellow School Bus: Equity in bus transportation across districts, schools, and students	6
Coded Racialized Discourse Among Educators: Implications for Social-Emotional Outcomes and Cultures of Antiblackness at an Urban School	6
Discovering the Roadblocks: Culturally Relevant Dispositions among Preservice Teachers	6
Criminalized or Stigmatized? An Intersectional Power Analysis of the Charter School Treatment of Black and Latino Boys	6
A Currency of Love: Illuminating Motherhood Across Immigrant, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Lines During COVID-19	6
Cooperative Economics in Racially Marginalized Communities: Reframing Economics Education Through Racial Capitalism and Democratic Practices	6
Affirming and Nurturing Students’ Cultural Wealth to Enhance Self-efficacy: Examination of Urban High School Students’ Lived Experiences in a STEM-Medicine Pipeline Program	6
Acknowledgment of 2021 reviewers	6
Facilitating Educational Equity and Safety of Undocumented Immigrant Students	6
Beyond Linguistic Racism: Linguicism and Intersectionality Among Mongolian Background Postgraduate Female Students in Australia	6
Persistence Despite Structural Barriers: Investigating Work Environments for Black and Latinx Teachers in Urban and Suburban Schools	6
Urban Middle Schoolers’ Opportunities to Belong Predict Fluctuations in Their Engagement Across the School Day	5
Mapping Ecosystems: Building an Understanding of an Urban Network of Supports and Resources for Black and Latino/a Students	5
Democracy, Empires, and the Chinese Diasporas	5
Determining Whether I Want to Belong: Seventh-Grade Black Girls’ Conceptualization and Identification of Sources of Belonging Within the Math Classroom	5
A Pathway to Liberation: A History of the Freedom Schools and the Long Struggle for Justice Since 1865	5
Principals, Paradigms, and Possibilities: STEAM Education Reform and the Centering of Black Life	5
Book Review: Cultivating genius: An equity framework for culturally and historically responsive literacy by Muhammad G	4
Book Review: Teachers of color: Resisting racism and reclaiming education by Kohli R	4
Special Education Racial Inequity and the Educational Debt	4
Moving from HOPE to Choice: Childhood Inequalities and Mechanisms for Reducing Inequalities Across Mixed-Income Housing and Neighborhood Redevelopment Initiatives	4
The Reading Journey of Zion—A Case Study of Race in the Context of Special Education	4
Acknowledgment of 2024 reviewers	4
Bang on the System: People’s Praxis and Pedagogy as Humanizing Violence	4
Negotiating Antiblackness as Non-Black Latino Men Teachers: Relational Race Politics in the Discourse on Men of Color Teachers	4
Elementary Teachers’ Attributions for Racially Minoritized Students’ Classroom Behaviors	4
“You have a master’s degree, but you speak so ghetto”: Secondary Content-Area Teachers Navigating Raciolinguistic Ideologies	4
Gaps in Achievement or Opportunity? How Achievement Gap Discourse Affects Teachers’ Beliefs and Priorities	4
Unsnarling PBIS and Trauma-Informed Education	4
Good Troublemakers: Freedom School Servant Leaders as Change Makers	4
Ascending Critical Consciousness: Designing an Experiential Liberatory Teacher Education Collaborative in Atlanta	3
In Their Own Words: The Experiences of Black and Latinx Youth in Culturally Relevant Programming	3
Deciphering Truth: Teaching About the Systemic Nature of Trauma	3
Leading for Justice, Leading for Learning: Conceptualizing Urban School Leadership for Antiracist Mathematics Teaching and Learning	3
Beyond Virtue Signaling: From Talking About to Enacting a Pedagogical Praxis of Justice in Urban Classrooms	3
Structuring Urban School/University/Community Partnerships as a Tool for Advancing the Legacy of Brown	3
Investigating Advanced School Surveillance Practices and Disproportionality: A Systematic Review	3
Teach Like a Black Woman: A Trauma-Informed Black Feminist Praxis	3
Carceral Care in Kentucky: The Case of a School Safety Plan	3
School Absenteeism and Neighborhood Deprivation and Threat: Utilizing the Child Opportunity Index to Assess for Neighborhood-Level Disparities in Passaic County, NJ	3

Planting the Seeds of Culturally Responsive, Equity-Centered, and Trauma-Informed Attitudes Among Urban Educators	3
What Motivates High School Youths to Want to Teach? Narratives of Homegrown Aspiring Teachers	3
Open to All: Administrators’ and Teachers’ Perceptions of Issues of Equity and Diversity in Teacher Leadership	3
A Meta-analysis: The Association Between Increased Use of Communicative Technology and Parental Involvement and the Relationship with Academic Achievement	3
“We, as Parents, Do Have a Voice”: Learning from Community-Based Programs Effectively Engaging Parents in Urban Communities	3
“In a Way It Certainly Tells Us that We Don’t Belong Here”: Black First-Generation College Students Visualizing Their Sense of Belonging at a Historically White Institution	3
Un/Learning Developmentalism: How Teachers and Youth Researchers Conceptualize “Youth” in an Intergenerational Collaboration	3
Can Certificate Programs Solve the Skills and Spatial Mismatch Problem? Job Portability and Residential Mobility in a Coding and Apprenticeship Program	2
A Review of: Restorative Justice Tribunal: And Ways to Derail Jim Crow Discipline in Schools, by Zachary Scott Robbins, Routledge, 2021	2
A Call for Black Superintendents to Document Their Experiences Through Autoethnography	2
Prototyping the Cultural Proficiency Continuum Dialogic Protocol with Professional Development School Teacher Interns	2
Betwixt and Between Justice and Inaction: Full-Service Community School Principals and Community Equity Literacy	2
Dismantling Carceral Logics in the Urban Early Literacy Classroom: Towards Liberatory Literacy Pedagogies with/for Multiply-Marginalized Young Children	2
Hierarchies of Elitism among Urban and Rural Palestinian Students in Israel	2
The Inclusion Mirage: Inside the Segregation of an Urban High School	2
“At School, It's a Completely Different World”: African Immigrant Youth Agency and Negotiation of Their Adaptation Processes in US Urban Schools	2
How Principals Balance Control and Care in Urban School Discipline	2
Principals’ Use of Leadership Metaphors in Three Urban Junior High Schools in Taiwan	2
Reflecting, Representing, and Expanding the Narrative(s) in Early Childhood Curriculum	2
In Between the Lines: Black and Brown Adolescents Creating a Homeplace Across School Settings	2
Engaging Black Educational Consciousness: Unpacking Intersectional Youth Voices in Urban Schools	2
The Inequality of the Long Game in a City With School Choice and Changing Racial Demographics	2
Teacher-Family Solidarity as Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and Practice	2
Critical Race Teacher Leadership: Leading Antiracist Systems Change	2
Race-gender D/Discourses in Mathematics Education: (Re)-Producing Inequitable Participation Patterns Across a Diverse, Instructionally-Advanced Urban District	2
The Promethean Promise: Understanding and Responding to the Educational Aspirations of Black People in the US, Seventy Years After Brown	1
Tales From the Motherboard: Black Mothering Across the Black Networked Consciousness	1
Barriers and Pathways to Enacting Justice-Oriented Social Studies: A Longitudinal Study of Novice Teachers in Urban Contexts	1
Systemic Inequities in Identification and Representation of Black Youth with Gifts and Talents: Access, Equity, and Missingness in Urban and Other School Locales	1
Examining the Impacts of a Developmentally Appropriate, Culturally Relevant Virtual School on Student Outcomes	1
“ESL Students Can Look White!?”: A Case Study of (Re)Assembled Raciolinguistic Subjectivities and Filtered Ideologies	1
“Well, What’s Wrong with the Whites?”: A Conversation Starter on Raising Expectations for Inservice Professional Development on Race with White Teachers	1
Beyond the Land of Thorns: Epistemic Authorship in Dual Language Bilingual Education	1
Utilizing the Urban Education Typology: A Content Analysis of Selected Citations	1
The Freedom School Way: A Model for Intergenerational Research Training Partnerships Among Universities and Children's Defense Fund Freedom Schools® Programs	1
Assessing Disproportional Calls Home for Problems at School: A Critical Race Framing and Analysis of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Childhood Adversities	1
Language Ideologies and Racial (In)Equity in Urban Multilingual Education	1
Community-Based Research with Immigrant Families: Sustaining an Intellectual Commons of Care, Resistance, and Solidarity in an Urban Intensive Context	1
Brown at 70: Commitment or Commemoration	1
Youth Leadership and Intersectionality: Which Youth Have a Say in School Decision-Making?	1
A New Era for Ethnic Studies: Hearing From Early-Career Educators	1
Laying the Groundwork, Transforming the University: An Origin Story of a Latinx Mentoring Program at a Predominantly White Institution	1
“Harriet Tubman is a Superhero”: Conceptualizing Young African American Children's Sociopolitical Awareness as Imaginative Praxis	1
Loving Blackness: Counter-Stories of Embracing Black Language Within a University Classroom	1
A Different Energy: The Critical Hip-Hop Teaching Artist and School Culture	1
Reclaiming Place in Teaching: Future Teacher of Color Spaces as Communities of Resistance	1
Science in the City: Culturally Relevant STEM Education: A Review	1
Learning About the Literacy Practices of Mothers with Refugee Backgrounds	1
Empathic Approaches for Supporting Black Students During Remote Learning	1
Truth Tellers: Using the Photovoice Method to Inform Retention with Teachers of Color	1
Revisiting Teaching Quality Gaps: Urbanicity and Disparities in Access to High-Quality Teachers Across Tennessee	1
The Work That Remains: Student Voice, Resistance and the Promise of Brown	1
Examining Teacher Leadership in the United States: How do BIPOC Teachers and White Teachers in Urban Environments Experience Shared Leadership?	1
Examining Youths’ Culturally Sustaining Peer Interactions in a Community-Based Participatory Research Initiative	1
Using Digital Games to Promote Equity in Career and Health Education: A Prototype of Caduceus Quest	1
Newcomer Emergent Bilingual Students’ Meaning-Making in Urban Biology Classrooms: A Communities of Practice Perspective	1
Contracting Whiteness: Charter Authorizing and the Erasure of Blackness in Southern Urban Spaces	1
“It's a Little, Tiny Process”: Gentrification, Inequality, and Fragmented Resistance to School Choice	1
Eroding Integration: 21st Century Segregation Trends in U.S. Public and Charter Schools and Implications for the Enduring Promise of Brown	1
Understanding Teachers’ Ethnic-Racial Socialization Practices with Students in Schools: A Qualitative Inquiry	1
Mind Stayed on Freedom: Education for Liberation Through the Freedom Schools Movement	1
Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of Brown : Resistance, Accomplishments, and the Work That Remains in Urban Education	1
“To Know There's Other Indigenous People in Your School is Nice”: Urban Indigenous Civic Identity	1
Responsive Placemaking in an Urban STEM Higher Education Ecosystem During a Pandemic: Considerations for Strengthening Resilience in STEM Education	1
Preschool Educators’ Opinions and Practices on School Gardening	1
“We Know It's a Library”: Black Space, Black Women's Labor, and Radical Black Joy	1