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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
A Tale of Two Systems: Choice and Equity in the District of Columbia’s Charter Schools	36
Indigenous Students and English Learner Identification: A Fifty-State Policy Review	24
The accountability paradigm post-NCLB: Policy Ideas and Moral Narratives	20
College Behind Bars: A Historiography of Higher Education in Prison	16
A Path Toward Racial Justice in Education: Anti-Racist Policy Decision Making in School Districts	16
Putting Parental Pushback in Context: A Comparative Case Study of a School District’s Gender Policy-As-Practice	15
A Framework for Deepening Racial Equity in Prenatal-Grade Three Systems: Lessons From a 10-Year Reflective Case Study	14
The Adoption of Test-Based Grade Retention Policies: An Event History Analysis	14
A Gap in Culturally Responsive Classroom Management Coverage? A Critical Policy Analysis of States’ School Discipline Policies	13
Reform for “These” Kids: Neoliberal Reform, Theorized Target Populations, and Spatial Injustice	12
Advancing Institutional Change to Encourage Faculty Participation in Research-Practice Partnerships	12
Whiteness and Ability: Discourses in Disability History Curriculum Legislation	12
State Goals, Institutional Social Constructions, and Utah’s Postsecondary Education Governance Reform Efforts	12
Equity and Early Implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act in State-Designed Plans During COVID	12
High School Students’ Expectations and College Aspirations: Causes and Consequences	12
Politics, Covid, and In-Person Instruction During the First Year of the Pandemic	11
Competency Based Education Pilot in Illinois: Preliminary Findings	10
Improving Understanding of English Learner Education Through an Expanded Analytic Framework	10
Comparing the Costs of Online and Teacher-Directed Credit Recovery	9
Associations Between Administrative Burden and Children’s ECE Stability During the Covid-19 Pandemic	9
Community Policing in Schools and School Resource Officer Transparency	9
Comparing the Role of Attitudes on the Enactment of Academic and Non-Academic Education Performance Indicators	9
“Divisive” Education Legislation in the Midwest: A Critical Epistemic Policy Analysis	9
Different or Differentiated? Recoupling Policy and Practice in an Era of Accountability	8
State ESSA Plans and Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) Status	8

How State Education Leaders Supported Students’ Access to Education Amidst the COVID-19 Crisis: Lessons for Policy	8
Variation in English Learners’ Programmatic Experiences and Postsecondary Trajectories	8
Unpacking the Power Dynamics of Funding Research-Practice Partnerships	8
Teacher Mental Health and District Employee Support in Rural Communities: A Sequential Exploratory Mixed Methods Study	8
Designing for a Productive Politics of Participation in Research Practice Partnerships	8
Disenchanting Educational Policy and Leadership: An Introduction	8
Educational Policy: Analysis, Action, and Advocacy Across Contexts	8
Does It Matter Who Evaluates Teachers? Principal Versus Teacher-Led Evaluation and Teacher Motivation	7
Principal Leadership of Pre-K Programs in Elementary Schools: Evidence from North Carolina	7
Good Schools, Bad Schools: Race, School Quality, and Neoliberal Educational Policy	7
Child Education Rights Versus Parental Preferences: A Paradox Between United Nations Conventions and Alternative Schooling Methods	7
The Boundaries of Competition: Examining Charter Schools’ Impact on Traditional Schools	7
An Empirically Derived Framework for Building Strong Outdoor Education Partnerships	7
Moving Toward Integration or Segregation? Racial Change in Suburban Public Schools	7
Retention and Educational Inequalities in the U.S.	6
Digital Redlining: The Relevance of 20th Century Housing Policy to 21st Century Broadband Access and Education	6
Hot Leadership, Cool Leadership: How Education Policies are Implemented (and Ignored) in Schools	6
An Event History Analysis of the Policy Adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards	6
The Madness Behind the Method: What’s Really Beneath Anti-Critical Race Theory Legislation	6
Equitable Compensation to Attract and Retain Qualified Teachers in High-Need Alaska Public Schools	6
The Choice and Evaluation of Sexual Harassment Interventions in Institutions of Higher Education	6
Adolescents’ Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors, Mental Health, and Access to School Counselors: Evidence from Georgia	6
The Importance of Being “Woke”: Charter Management Organizations and the Growth of Social Consciousness as a School Quality Marker	6
Opportunity Structures for Student Activism, Diversity, and Institutional Change	5
The Evolution of Coaching as a Policy Instrument: How a District Engages in Organizational Learning	5
Educational Philanthropy’s “Racial Reckoning” in the Wake of 2020: Understanding Grantmakers’ Responses to Racialized Crises	5
Whose Agenda is It? Navigating the Politics of Setting the Research Agenda in Education Research-Practice Partnerships	5
Public University Degree Audits: Who Incurs Excess Credit and Why	5
The Expansion of Title V: A Historical Analysis of the Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans Program	5
Reconsidering Determinants of Title IX Compliance: Introducing Admission Factors Disaggregated by Gender and Female Athletic Expenditures	5
Personalized Learning Policy and Student Voice: A Statewide Case Study	5
Food Insecurity and Student Absence in the US and Across the Globe	5
Racialized Decoupling and Race-Neutral School Integration Policies From the Implementers’ Perspective	5
The Political and Social Contexts of Research Evidence Use in Partnerships	4
Unpacking Legal Advancements for Asian American Students: A Political Discourse Analysis of Illinois’s House Bill 376	4
State-Level Efforts to Reform Elementary Science Education	4
Does ESSA Assure the Use of Evidence-based Educational Practices?	4
A Critical Qualitative Study of Inequities in Hispanic-Serving Institutions’ Grant-Seeking Competitiveness	4
Segregation, Diversity, and Pathology: School Quality and Student Demographics in Gentrifying New York	4
It’s Complicated: Examining Political Realities and Challenges in the Context of Research-Practice Partnerships from the School District Leader’s Perspective	4
“There Was Nothing Here”: School Leaders Using Dual Language Bilingual Education Programs as a Formula to Re-Engineer Student Populations for School Turnaround	4
Not “Citizens in Waiting”: Student Counter-Narratives of Anti-Equity Campaigns	4
Novice Teachers and Student Attendance in Early Elementary School	4
Noncognitive Factors and Student Long-Run Success: Comparing the Predictive Validity of Observable Academic Behaviors and Social-Emotional Skills	4
Effect of International Roommates on College Outcomes: Evidence from Students of Disadvantaged Backgrounds	3
Admissions Officers’ Perceptions When Undocumented Students Seek In-State Resident Tuition Policy	3
Chronic Absenteeism in Detroit’s Brightmoor Neighborhood: Addressing Systemic & Structural Inequities Through Participatory Action Research	3
Beyond the Parameters of “Choice”: An Obliterated Vision for Traditional Public Schooling and the Contamination of the New Orleans Charter Restart Model	3
Neoliberalism in Decline? New Pluralists Recast Schools in Los Angeles	3
Contemporary Homeschooling Arrangements: An Analysis of Three Waves of Nationally Representative Data	3

The Challenge of Measuring Instructional Coach Effectiveness	3
State Education Agency Governance, Virtual Learning, and Student Privacy: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Educational Stakeholder Sensemaking on Preparing CTE Students for Sub-Baccalaureate Pathways	3
STEM Education and the Contradictory Realities of School Policies	3
Institutional Transfer Logics Among Community College and University Stakeholders	3
Conceptualizing State Re-Engagement With Public Higher Education	3
Conceptions and Practices of Equity in Research-Practice Partnerships	3
Race Placed: Special Education Identification and Placement of Black Students	2
Pipeline Philanthropy: Understanding Philanthropic Corporate Action in Education During the COVID-19 Era and Beyond	2
School Funding and Equity in Australia: Critical Moments in the Context of Text Production Phase of the Education Policy Cycle	2
Assessing the Predictive Validity of the Massachusetts Candidate Assessment of Performance	2
Organizational Structure, Instructional Quality, and Student Achievement: The Case of Public and Private Schools	2
Positionality in the Politics of Education: Mapping the Strategies and Constraints of Education Reformers	2
Meritocracy and Advantaged Parents’ Perceptions of the Fairness of School Choice Policies	2
Paying for Preschool: Who Blends Funding in Early Childhood Education?	2
Historicizing Black Educational “Choice”: Toward Black Educational Self-Determination	2
Postsecondary Policy Environments in Citizen Legislatures	2
The Impact of State Principal Evaluation Policies on Equity for Economically Disadvantaged Students	2
School Districts as Invasive Actors in a Market School Choice Environment	2
An Examination of State Statutes and School District Policies Addressing Minors With Do Not Resuscitate Orders	2
Intermediary Public Policy Organizations and the Discursive Evasion of Systemic Racism and Racialized Violence	2
Understanding the Stakes: The Influence of Accountability Policy Options on Teachers’ Responses	2
Using an Emergency Plan to Combat Teacher Burnout Following a Natural Hazard	2
Ensuring Educational Continuity in the Midst of Crisis: Policy and Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
The Politics of School Funding: How State Political Ideology is Associated With the Allocation of Revenue to School Districts	2
Critical Translingual Perspectives on California Multilingual Education Policy	2
Mapping the Field of Shared Governance: Understanding the Landscape of Staff Representation Mechanisms in the American South	2
Research-Practice Partnerships in Pursuit of Racial Justice in Schools: Navigating a Hostile Sociopolitical Climate	2
The State of Elementary School Recess in Georgia: Policy, the Pandemic, and Patterns of Play	2
Recasting Race-Conscious Admissions: Sylvia Wynter and Higher Education Policy After “Man”	2
Timing and Frequency Matter: Same Race/Ethnicity Teacher and Student Achievement by School Level and Classroom Organization	2
Rezoning Educational Opportunities: The Relationship Between School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes and Access to Schools of Varying Quality	2
Need-Based Promise Programs, Performance Funding Bonuses, and the Enrollment of Low-Income Students	2
Examining U.S. Teachers’ Working Conditions in Online Schools	2