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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Mapping Ecosystems: Building an Understanding of an Urban Network of Supports and Resources for Black and Latino/a Students	35
Can Decentralized School Systems Pursue Common Ends? An Analysis of Urban Catholic School and System Leaders’ Perceptions of Reform	34
Seeking Support in Teacher Education for Racial Knowledge: The Role of Professional Networks and Social Identities	26
Learning in Dialogue with Latinx Children of Immigrants: Reflections on the Co-emergence of Collaborative Linguistic Inquiry and Critical Pedagogical Praxis	25
“It's a Little, Tiny Process”: Gentrification, Inequality, and Fragmented Resistance to School Choice	17
Beyond Virtue Signaling: From Talking About to Enacting a Pedagogical Praxis of Justice in Urban Classrooms	16
Democracy, Empires, and the Chinese Diasporas	16
Systemic Inequities in Identification and Representation of Black Youth with Gifts and Talents: Access, Equity, and Missingness in Urban and Other School Locales	13
Cooperative Economics in Racially Marginalized Communities: Reframing Economics Education Through Racial Capitalism and Democratic Practices	12
Urban Middle Schoolers’ Opportunities to Belong Predict Fluctuations in Their Engagement Across the School Day	12
Contracting Whiteness: Charter Authorizing and the Erasure of Blackness in Southern Urban Spaces	11
“The Classroom is a Reflection of the Real World”: Black Women Urban Teachers’ Activist Pedagogy and Leadership	11
Maximizing Learning Opportunities with Young Refugee Multilingual Learners in Urban Schools: An Asset-Based Participatory Action Research	11
Staying Close to Home: A Descriptive Analysis of the High School Graduates Who Return to Teach in Their Home District	10
Newcomer Emergent Bilingual Students’ Meaning-Making in Urban Biology Classrooms: A Communities of Practice Perspective	10
Supporting and Advocating for Immigrant and Refugee Students and Families in America’s Urban Schools: Educators’ Agency and Practices in Everyday Instruction	10
A New Era for Ethnic Studies: Hearing From Early-Career Educators	10
Examining the Impacts of a Developmentally Appropriate, Culturally Relevant Virtual School on Student Outcomes	10
Urban School District Performance: A Longitudinal Analysis of Achievement	9
Principals, Paradigms, and Possibilities: STEAM Education Reform and the Centering of Black Life	9
Resource Hopping: Examining the Policy Barriers Faced and Strategies Used to Establish Partnerships for Students Experiencing Homelessness	9
A Pathway to Liberation: A History of the Freedom Schools and the Long Struggle for Justice Since 1865	9
A Phenomenological Variant Ecological Systems Theory Approach for Exploring Racial Stress, and Campus Engagement Among Black Male College Students	8
When and Where We Enter: Introduction to the Special Issue	8
‘Foreigners in Our Schools’: Cultural Diversity, Othering, and the Desire for Justice in Schools	8

Arts Learning Across a City: How Ecosystem Thinking Helps Shape Understanding of Black-Centered and Eurocentric Arts Programming	8
Principals’ Use of Leadership Metaphors in Three Urban Junior High Schools in Taiwan	8
(Re)Visiting and (Re)Imagining Youth [Transformational] Resistance	8
Black Girls’ Reading Motivations: Centering Their Perspectives and Experiences to Redefine a Hegemonic Construct	8
Engaged Learning as a Pathway Towards Supporting Hispanic Students at Urban Universities	8
Planting the Seeds of Culturally Responsive, Equity-Centered, and Trauma-Informed Attitudes Among Urban Educators	8
Discovering the Roadblocks: Culturally Relevant Dispositions among Preservice Teachers	7
Black Girls Seeing Urban Schools: Visual, Affective, and Discursive (Re)Conceptualizations of Safety	7
Understanding Mental Health Stigma in Chinese Left-Behind Children: A Study on School Readiness, Self-Esteem, and Home Environment	6
Middle School Teachers and Undergraduate Mentors Collaborating for Culturally Relevant STEM Education	6
Betwixt and Between Justice and Inaction: Full-Service Community School Principals and Community Equity Literacy	6
Toward a (Re)Integrated Application of Bourdieuan Theory	6
Equity Scenario Response Survey: Understanding Teacher Candidates’ Preparation of Their Sociopolitical Identity	6
Equity for All? Black Students and Locally Controlled Funding	6
Negotiating Antiblackness as Non-Black Latino Men Teachers: Relational Race Politics in the Discourse on Men of Color Teachers	6
Riding the Yellow School Bus: Equity in bus transportation across districts, schools, and students	6
The Reading Journey of Zion—A Case Study of Race in the Context of Special Education	6
Dismantling Carceral Logics in the Urban Early Literacy Classroom: Towards Liberatory Literacy Pedagogies with/for Multiply-Marginalized Young Children	6
Teacher Activism in “Terrible Cities”: Chronicles of Agency and Resistance in Phoenix and Milwaukee	5
Reflecting, Representing, and Expanding the Narrative(s) in Early Childhood Curriculum	5
Critical Race Teacher Leadership: Leading Antiracist Systems Change	5
Fighting for Justice Amid Anti-Black Violence	5
Learning in Context and Practicing in Place: Engaging Preservice Teachers in Urban-Focused Context Specific Teacher Education	5
Acknowledgment of 2023 reviewers	5
Cultivating Community Cultural Wealth and Armed Love: Freedom School as a Vanguard	5
Does Rural Mean not Urban? Reconsidering the Conceptualization and Operationalization of Rural School Districts	5
Conceptualizing Intersectional Harm in Mathematics Classrooms: An Analysis of High School Black Girls' Experiences	5
Culturally Responsive Teaching through Spatial Justice in Urban Neighborhoods	5
Surfacing Deep Challenges for Social-Educational Justice: Putting Funds, Wealth, and Capital Frameworks into Dialogue	5
Understanding Teacher Self-Efficacy to Address Students’ Social-Emotional Needs in the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
“I Never Explicitly Brought That Up to My Mentor”: Early Career Teachers of Color Navigating Whiteness With White Mentors in a University-Based Induction Program	5
Hierarchies of Elitism among Urban and Rural Palestinian Students in Israel	4
A Poetry Book Review of The Peace Chronicles	4
Teacher-Family Solidarity as Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and Practice	4
Negotiating Racialized Discourses and Navigating Racism in U.S. Schools: Understanding Chinese Immigrants’ Parenting Identities and Practices Through an AsianCrit Lens	4
Race-gender D/Discourses in Mathematics Education: (Re)-Producing Inequitable Participation Patterns Across a Diverse, Instructionally-Advanced Urban District	4
Understanding Perceptions, Barriers, and Opportunities around Restorative Justice in Urban High Schools	4
The Trifecta Framework: Preparing Agents of Change in Urban Education	4
Writing with Dignity Among Youth in Urban Communities: Using Mentor Texts as a Reflective Tool for Transformation	4
Can Certificate Programs Solve the Skills and Spatial Mismatch Problem? Job Portability and Residential Mobility in a Coding and Apprenticeship Program	4
Elementary Teachers’ Attributions for Racially Minoritized Students’ Classroom Behaviors	4
The Imperatives of Voice and Context in the Preparation of Community Teachers: Conceptualizing Learning-To-Teach Cycles	4
Prototyping the Cultural Proficiency Continuum Dialogic Protocol with Professional Development School Teacher Interns	4
Black Mothering Communities as Homeplaces for Black LGBTQ+ Youth	3
“I Wanted Diversity, But Not So Much”: Middle-Class White Parents, School Choice, and the Persistence of Anti-Black Stereotypes	3
Using Digital Games to Promote Equity in Career and Health Education: A Prototype of Caduceus Quest	3
Saved by the Bell Schedule? The Effects of a Later School Start Time on High Schoolers in an Urban District	3
Barriers and Pathways to Enacting Justice-Oriented Social Studies: A Longitudinal Study of Novice Teachers in Urban Contexts	3
Black Girl Joy (Un)Interrupted: Recognizing and Nurturing Black Girls' Community-Building Capabilities in the Early Grades	3
K’iche’, Mam, and Nahua Migrant Youth Navigating Colonial Codes of Power	3

Book Review: Cultivating genius: An equity framework for culturally and historically responsive literacy	3
Black Male Brilliance as (Ill)Legible: Challenging and Changing Societal and Educational Narratives	3
Book Review: Black Lives Matter at School: Community Schools, COVID-19 and Freedom Dreams	3
Understanding Barriers to Parent Involvement Through a Postcolonial lens: A Case Study of Bahamian Schools	3
How Principals Balance Control and Care in Urban School Discipline	3
Laying the Groundwork, Transforming the University: An Origin Story of a Latinx Mentoring Program at a Predominantly White Institution	3
Separate and Unequal in St. Louis? Strengths and Limitations of School-Level Funding Data Using a QuantCrit Framework	3
Urban Education on Engaging Communities and Supporting Praxis with Immigrant and Refugee Families	3
Saved by the School Community Strategy: School-Community Alliances for Promoting School Success in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods During Times of Austerity	3
“This School is Killing my Soul”: Threat Rigidity Responses to High-Stakes Accountability Policies	3
“What's Happening Baby?” Lessons with My First Teacher, Mrs. Mary M. Temple Rhodes	3
Moving from HOPE to Choice: Childhood Inequalities and Mechanisms for Reducing Inequalities Across Mixed-Income Housing and Neighborhood Redevelopment Initiatives	2
Collaborating for Equity in Urban Education: Comprehensive Reform in an Innovative University/School Partnership	2
In Between the Lines: Black and Brown Adolescents Creating a Homeplace Across School Settings	2
Leveraging Community Assets and Carving Out the Anti-Racist Futures: Asian American Teachers’ Pedagogies and Praxis in Urban Schools	2
Invisible Funds of Identity in Urban Contexts	2
The Impact of Brown v. Board of Education on Higher Education Access, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and Ongoing Efforts to Ensure Equitable Acces	2
“At School, It's a Completely Different World”: African Immigrant Youth Agency and Negotiation of Their Adaptation Processes in US Urban Schools	2
Unsnarling PBIS and Trauma-Informed Education	2
The Work That Remains: Student Voice, Resistance and the Promise of Brown	2
“What Do I Need That For?”: The Misalignment of Masculinity and College Preparation in an Urban School	2
“Inter-District School Transfers and the Role of Educators in Black Students’ Sense of School Belonging”	2
“We Know It's a Library”: Black Space, Black Women's Labor, and Radical Black Joy	1
The Inclusion Mirage: Inside the Segregation of an Urban High School	1
Special Education Racial Inequity and the Educational Debt	1
Lies, Denials, and Cover-Ups: The Pervasiveness of Whiteness in School Districts Relations with Black and Racialized Parents	1
Classroom Management Coaching for First-Year Urban Teachers: Purpose, Design, and Implementation	1
Taking a “Whole” Classroom Perspective: Theorizing Classroom Typologies Using a Video-Based Observational Protocol	1
Fear of a School-to-Deportation Pipeline: How Teachers, Administrators, and Immigrant Students Respond to the Threat of Standardized Tests and Deportation	1
Disentangling the Reproductive From the Liberatory in Urban School Contexts: Trauma-Informed Practice for Racially Just Systemic Teaching	1
A Sociohistorical Critique of the Systemic Disenfranchisement of Milwaukee's Black Women Childcare Providers	1
You Can’t Steal My Joy! Practices and Possibilities for Black Joy in Urban Education	1
Book Review: One World	1
Culturally Sustaining Catch-Up? How English Language Arts Teachers “Compensate” with Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy After the State Exam	1
“Showing the Good and Bad Together”: A Participatory Exploration of Strengths and School-Based Trauma with Black Elementary Youth	1
Abolishing Disciplines, Blurring Boundaries: A Review of Bettina Love’s We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom (2019)	1
Book Review: Promoting Teacher Advocacy as Critical Teacher Leadership	1
A Call for Black Superintendents to Document Their Experiences Through Autoethnography	1
Book Review: Cultivating genius: An equity framework for culturally and historically responsive literacy by Muhammad G	1
Acknowledgment of 2024 reviewers	1
Fostering Youth Sociopolitical Action: The Roles of Critical Reflection, Sociopolitical Efficacy, and Transformative Student Voice	1
Children's Access to Books, Libraries, and Storybook Reading: Survey of Mothers at a Family Homeless Shelter	1
Re-Imagining Literacy and Language Education for Girls of Color	1
A Review of: Restorative Justice Tribunal: And Ways to Derail Jim Crow Discipline in Schools, by Zachary Scott Robbins, Routledge, 2021	1
Racially Just, Trauma-Informed Care for Black Students	1
The Inequality of the Long Game in a City With School Choice and Changing Racial Demographics	1
Good Troublemakers: Freedom School Servant Leaders as Change Makers	1
A Systematic Literature Review of Research on Teacher Empowerment	1
Navigating Politically Muddy Waters: Charter Management Organizations and Their Efforts to Craft a Counternarrative	1
Examining Teacher Leadership in the United States: How do BIPOC Teachers and White Teachers in Urban Environments Experience Shared Leadership?	1
Protect Black Women Teachers: Influencing Sustainability Through Mental Health Literacy	1
Reimagining Internal Transformational Resistance in High School Ethnic Studies	1
Toward A Discourse on the Threat of Performative Wokeness to Justice Agendas in Education	1
Community-Based Research with Immigrant Families: Sustaining an Intellectual Commons of Care, Resistance, and Solidarity in an Urban Intensive Context	1