OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Educational Policy 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Toward Race-Conscious Care-Based Healing to Support Latino Immigrant Youth	23
The Relationship Between Course Structure and Intensity, and Student Success in Developmental Education	20
Partisan Predictors for Collective Bargaining Agreement Items	17
Assessing the Predictive Validity of the Massachusetts Candidate Assessment of Performance	15
Investigating Arts Education Effects on School Engagement and Climate	14
A Path Toward Racial Justice in Education: Anti-Racist Policy Decision Making in School Districts	13
The accountability paradigm post-NCLB: Policy Ideas and Moral Narratives	13
A Tale of Two Systems: Choice and Equity in the District of Columbia’s Charter Schools	12
STEM-Focused Career Courses and College Pipeline for Students with Learning Disabilities	12
Scaling Gender and Sexual Diversity Policies in K-12 Schools	12
Indigenous Students and English Learner Identification: A Fifty-State Policy Review	11
What is the Role of Adult Facilitators in Critical Participatory Action Research? Employing Affective Labor While Navigating the Politics and the Perils Alongside Minoritized Youth Researchers	11
Disenchanting Educational Policy and Leadership: An Introduction	10
Making Waves: Districts as Policy Mediators in the Flow of School Gentrification	10
Former Teachers: Exits and Re-Entries	10
Different or Differentiated? Recoupling Policy and Practice in an Era of Accountability	9
College Behind Bars: A Historiography of Higher Education in Prison	9
Power and Adult Support in Student Voice Efforts for Policy Change	9
Segregation, Diversity, and Pathology: School Quality and Student Demographics in Gentrifying New York	9
Status Quo or Innovation? Transforming Teacher Education in Hostile Times	9
Race Placed: Special Education Identification and Placement of Black Students	9
After the Race to the Top: State and District Capacity to Sustain Professional Development Innovation in Florida	9
Critical Translingual Perspectives on California Multilingual Education Policy	8
The Political and Social Contexts of Research Evidence Use in Partnerships	8
Unpacking the Power Dynamics of Funding Research-Practice Partnerships	8

Pipeline Philanthropy: Understanding Philanthropic Corporate Action in Education During the COVID-19 Era and Beyond	8
A Critical Qualitative Study of Inequities in Hispanic-Serving Institutions’ Grant-Seeking Competitiveness	8
Postsecondary Policy Environments in Citizen Legislatures	7
The Politics of School Funding: How State Political Ideology is Associated With the Allocation of Revenue to School Districts	7
The Evolving Identities of HSI and Differentiated Funding	7
Conflict Theory, Extended: A Framework for Understanding Contemporary Struggles Over Education Policy	7
Community School Implementation in Rural Vermont	7
The State of Elementary School Recess in Georgia: Policy, the Pandemic, and Patterns of Play	6
The Perceptions and Experiences of Faculty Implementing Florida’s Developmental Education Reform	6
Advancing Institutional Change to Encourage Faculty Participation in Research-Practice Partnerships	6
Reading, Writing, Responding: Educators’ Perceptions of Safety, Preparedness, and Lockdown Drills	6
Segregate, Discriminate, Signal: A Model for Understanding Policy Drivers of Educational Inequality	6
Examining U.S. Teachers’ Working Conditions in Online Schools	6
Puerto Rican Student Activism and Enacting Consciousness in Chicago: Learned Lessons and Implications for Practice	6
Becoming HOPEless in the 2-Year Sector	6
On the Role of Teacher Unions in Social Justice	5
Evidence That a Greater Presence of Latinx Faculty or Administrators Raises the Completion Rates of Various Cohorts of Community College Students	5
Not “Citizens in Waiting”: Student Counter-Narratives of Anti-Equity Campaigns	5
Interrogating Policy Diffusion in the Arts Education Sphere	5
A Framework for Deepening Racial Equity in Prenatal-Grade Three Systems: Lessons From a 10-Year Reflective Case Study	5
Need-Based Promise Programs, Performance Funding Bonuses, and the Enrollment of Low-Income Students	5
Teacher Mental Health and District Employee Support in Rural Communities: A Sequential Exploratory Mixed Methods Study	5
Online Credit Recovery as an Intervention for High School Students Who Fail Courses	5
The Bind of Unilateral Power Dynamics and Youth Voice in School Politics	5
Historicizing Black Educational “Choice”: Toward Black Educational Self-Determination	5
School Funding and Equity in Australia: Critical Moments in the Context of Text Production Phase of the Education Policy Cycle	4
The Adoption of Test-Based Grade Retention Policies: An Event History Analysis	4
How State Educational Agency Coordinators Navigate Logics of Local Control in Standards Implementation	4
Developmental Education for College Students with Learning and Attention Disabilities	4
How State Education Leaders Supported Students’ Access to Education Amidst the COVID-19 Crisis: Lessons for Policy	4
Nationally Representative Evidence on the Association Between Preschool and School-Based Parental Involvement in Elementary School	4
An Examination of State Statutes and School District Policies Addressing Minors With Do Not Resuscitate Orders	4
Revisiting the “Decline” in Asian American and Pacific Islander Teachers	4
Reform for “These” Kids: Neoliberal Reform, Theorized Target Populations, and Spatial Injustice	4
Youth of Color Social Movements for Racial Justice: The Politics of Interrogating the School-to-Prison Pipeline	4
Forced to Choose: Lessons Learned from Families of Students Within Special Education	3
Does It Matter Who Evaluates Teachers? Principal Versus Teacher-Led Evaluation and Teacher Motivation	3
It’s Complicated: Examining Political Realities and Challenges in the Context of Research-Practice Partnerships from the School District Leader’s Perspective	3
Why Charter Teachers Unionize	3
Examining the Presence and Equitable Distribution of Instructional Coaching Programs and Coaches’ Teaching Expertise Across Tennessee Schools	3
Moving Toward Integration or Segregation? Racial Change in Suburban Public Schools	3
Principal Leadership of Pre-K Programs in Elementary Schools: Evidence from North Carolina	3
Paying for Preschool: Who Blends Funding in Early Childhood Education?	3
A Landscape Analysis of State-Level School Counseling Policy: Perspectives from State Officials	3
Educational Policy: Analysis, Action, and Advocacy Across Contexts	3
The Signaling Power of Unexcused Absence from School	3
Instructional Policy From Pre-K to Third Grade: The Challenges of Fostering Alignment and Continuity in Two School Districts	3
A Gap in Culturally Responsive Classroom Management Coverage? A Critical Policy Analysis of States’ School Discipline Policies	3
State-Level Efforts to Reform Elementary Science Education	3
Child Education Rights Versus Parental Preferences: A Paradox Between United Nations Conventions and Alternative Schooling Methods	3

Politics at the Boundary: Exploring Politics in Education Research-Practice Partnerships	3
Novice Teachers and Student Attendance in Early Elementary School	3
The Boundaries of Competition: Examining Charter Schools’ Impact on Traditional Schools	3
Towards Anti-Carceral Leadership: Remaking Public Schools to Refuse Black Students’ Surveillance, Containment, and Control	3
Unpacking Legal Advancements for Asian American Students: A Political Discourse Analysis of Illinois’s House Bill 376	3
Does ESSA Assure the Use of Evidence-based Educational Practices?	2
Teachers Unions and Dual Enrollment Policy in Collective Bargaining Agreements	2
Current Perspectives on Teacher Unionization, and What They’re Missing	2
Changing the Composition of Beginning Teachers: The Role of State Alternative Certification Policies	2
Hot Leadership, Cool Leadership: How Education Policies are Implemented (and Ignored) in Schools	2
Whose Agenda is It? Navigating the Politics of Setting the Research Agenda in Education Research-Practice Partnerships	2
Ensuring Educational Continuity in the Midst of Crisis: Policy and Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Good Schools, Bad Schools: Race, School Quality, and Neoliberal Educational Policy	2
State ESSA Plans and Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) Status	2
School Counselors’ Perceptions and Understandings of Lockdown Drills: Navigating the Paradox of Safety and Fear	2
State Goals, Institutional Social Constructions, and Utah’s Postsecondary Education Governance Reform Efforts	2
A Shift in School Reform: Examining Site-Level Spending and Student Academic Growth	2
Chronic Absenteeism in Detroit’s Brightmoor Neighborhood: Addressing Systemic & Structural Inequities Through Participatory Action Research	2
The Creation of a Mental Health Policy in Higher Education	2
Whiteness and Ability: Discourses in Disability History Curriculum Legislation	2
Achievement and Growth for English Learners	2
Measuring Middle School Achievement Trajectories for College Readiness	2
Investing in Improvement: A Critical Look at Funding for Low-Performing Schools	2
Using an Emergency Plan to Combat Teacher Burnout Following a Natural Hazard	2
The edTPA as a Barrier to Preparing Antiracist Teachers in California	2
Timing and Frequency Matter: Same Race/Ethnicity Teacher and Student Achievement by School Level and Classroom Organization	2