OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Urban Education is 4. 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
Democracy, Empires, and the Chinese Diasporas	16
Beyond Virtue Signaling: From Talking About to Enacting a Pedagogical Praxis of Justice in Urban Classrooms	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
Urban Middle Schoolers’ Opportunities to Belong Predict Fluctuations in Their Engagement Across the School Day	12
Cooperative Economics in Racially Marginalized Communities: Reframing Economics Education Through Racial Capitalism and Democratic Practices	12
“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
Contracting Whiteness: Charter Authorizing and the Erasure of Blackness in Southern Urban Spaces	11
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
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
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
Urban School District Performance: A Longitudinal Analysis of Achievement	9
Principals, Paradigms, and Possibilities: STEAM Education Reform and the Centering of Black Life	9
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

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 Seeing Urban Schools: Visual, Affective, and Discursive (Re)Conceptualizations of Safety	7
Discovering the Roadblocks: Culturally Relevant Dispositions among Preservice Teachers	7
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
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
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
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
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
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