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 2021-08-01 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
Urban School District Performance: A Longitudinal Analysis of Achievement	18
Staying Close to Home: A Descriptive Analysis of the High School Graduates Who Return to Teach in Their Home District	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
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
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
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
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
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
Unsnarling PBIS and Trauma-Informed Education	4
Good Troublemakers: Freedom School Servant Leaders as Change Makers	4
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