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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The accountability paradigm post-NCLB: Policy Ideas and Moral Narratives	27
A Tale of Two Systems: Choice and Equity in the District of Columbia’s Charter Schools	25
Indigenous Students and English Learner Identification: A Fifty-State Policy Review	19
College Behind Bars: A Historiography of Higher Education in Prison	17
A Path Toward Racial Justice in Education: Anti-Racist Policy Decision Making in School Districts	17
Advancing Institutional Change to Encourage Faculty Participation in Research-Practice Partnerships	16
The Perceptions and Experiences of Faculty Implementing Florida’s Developmental Education Reform	16
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	13
A Gap in Culturally Responsive Classroom Management Coverage? A Critical Policy Analysis of States’ School Discipline Policies	12
On the Role of Teacher Unions in Social Justice	12
Reform for “These” Kids: Neoliberal Reform, Theorized Target Populations, and Spatial Injustice	12
Equity and Early Implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act in State-Designed Plans During COVID	11
Improving Understanding of English Learner Education Through an Expanded Analytic Framework	11
State Goals, Institutional Social Constructions, and Utah’s Postsecondary Education Governance Reform Efforts	11
Politics, Covid, and In-Person Instruction During the First Year of the Pandemic	11
Whiteness and Ability: Discourses in Disability History Curriculum Legislation	11
High School Students’ Expectations and College Aspirations: Causes and Consequences	11
Comparing the Costs of Online and Teacher-Directed Credit Recovery	10
Associations Between Administrative Burden and Children’s ECE Stability During the Covid-19 Pandemic	10
Competency Based Education Pilot in Illinois: Preliminary Findings	10
Designing for a Productive Politics of Participation in Research Practice Partnerships	9
Comparing the Role of Attitudes on the Enactment of Academic and Non-Academic Education Performance Indicators	9
Disenchanting Educational Policy and Leadership: An Introduction	9
Different or Differentiated? Recoupling Policy and Practice in an Era of Accountability	9

Community Policing in Schools and School Resource Officer Transparency	9
“This is Not Who We Are”: Students Leading for Anti-Racist Policy Changes in Alexandria City Public Schools, Virginia	9
How State Education Leaders Supported Students’ Access to Education Amidst the COVID-19 Crisis: Lessons for Policy	9
“Divisive” Education Legislation in the Midwest: A Critical Epistemic Policy Analysis	9
Principal Perceptions of the Distance Learning Transition During the Pandemic	9
Unpacking the Power Dynamics of Funding Research-Practice Partnerships	9
Teacher Mental Health and District Employee Support in Rural Communities: A Sequential Exploratory Mixed Methods Study	9
Child Education Rights Versus Parental Preferences: A Paradox Between United Nations Conventions and Alternative Schooling Methods	8
The Boundaries of Competition: Examining Charter Schools’ Impact on Traditional Schools	7
State ESSA Plans and Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) Status	7
Principal Leadership of Pre-K Programs in Elementary Schools: Evidence from North Carolina	7
Educational Policy: Analysis, Action, and Advocacy Across Contexts	7
The Signaling Power of Unexcused Absence from School	6
Digital Redlining: The Relevance of 20th Century Housing Policy to 21st Century Broadband Access and Education	6
Good Schools, Bad Schools: Race, School Quality, and Neoliberal Educational Policy	6
An Empirically Derived Framework for Building Strong Outdoor Education Partnerships	6
Equitable Compensation to Attract and Retain Qualified Teachers in High-Need Alaska Public Schools	6
Moving Toward Integration or Segregation? Racial Change in Suburban Public Schools	6
Does It Matter Who Evaluates Teachers? Principal Versus Teacher-Led Evaluation and Teacher Motivation	6
Hot Leadership, Cool Leadership: How Education Policies are Implemented (and Ignored) in Schools	6
The Evolution of Coaching as a Policy Instrument: How a District Engages in Organizational Learning	5
Whose Agenda is It? Navigating the Politics of Setting the Research Agenda in Education Research-Practice Partnerships	5
Adolescents’ Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors, Mental Health, and Access to School Counselors: Evidence from Georgia	5
The Rhetoric of Teacher Evaluation: New York City Teachers’ Responses to Performance Labels	5
The Madness Behind the Method: What’s Really Beneath Anti-Critical Race Theory Legislation	5
The Expansion of Title V: A Historical Analysis of the Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans Program	5
An Event History Analysis of the Policy Adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards	5
The Choice and Evaluation of Sexual Harassment Interventions in Institutions of Higher Education	5
Opportunity Structures for Student Activism, Diversity, and Institutional Change	5
The Politics of Student Voice: The Power and Potential of Students as Policy Actors	5
Retention and Educational Inequalities in the U.S.	5
The Importance of Being “Woke”: Charter Management Organizations and the Growth of Social Consciousness as a School Quality Marker	5
Personalized Learning Policy and Student Voice: A Statewide Case Study	4
Racialized Decoupling and Race-Neutral School Integration Policies From the Implementers’ Perspective	4
A Critical Qualitative Study of Inequities in Hispanic-Serving Institutions’ Grant-Seeking Competitiveness	4
Public University Degree Audits: Who Incurs Excess Credit and Why	4
Educational Philanthropy’s “Racial Reckoning” in the Wake of 2020: Understanding Grantmakers’ Responses to Racialized Crises	4
The Political and Social Contexts of Research Evidence Use in Partnerships	4
“School’s a Lie”: Toward Critical Race Intersectional Pedagogy for Youth Intellectual Activism in Policy Partnerships	4
Reconsidering Determinants of Title IX Compliance: Introducing Admission Factors Disaggregated by Gender and Female Athletic Expenditures	4
Scaling Gender and Sexual Diversity Policies in K-12 Schools	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
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	3
Novice Teachers and Student Attendance in Early Elementary School	3
Admissions Officers’ Perceptions When Undocumented Students Seek In-State Resident Tuition Policy	3
Institutional Transfer Logics Among Community College and University Stakeholders	3
Does ESSA Assure the Use of Evidence-based Educational Practices?	3
Not “Citizens in Waiting”: Student Counter-Narratives of Anti-Equity Campaigns	3
Unpacking Legal Advancements for Asian American Students: A Political Discourse Analysis of Illinois’s House Bill 376	3
Beyond the Parameters of “Choice”: An Obliterated Vision for Traditional Public Schooling and the Contamination of the New Orleans Charter Restart Model	3

It’s Complicated: Examining Political Realities and Challenges in the Context of Research-Practice Partnerships from the School District Leader’s Perspective	3
Segregation, Diversity, and Pathology: School Quality and Student Demographics in Gentrifying New York	3
State-Level Efforts to Reform Elementary Science Education	3
Noncognitive Factors and Student Long-Run Success: Comparing the Predictive Validity of Observable Academic Behaviors and Social-Emotional Skills	3
State Education Agency Governance, Virtual Learning, and Student Privacy: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
The State of Elementary School Recess in Georgia: Policy, the Pandemic, and Patterns of Play	2
Race Placed: Special Education Identification and Placement of Black Students	2
Rezoning Educational Opportunities: The Relationship Between School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes and Access to Schools of Varying Quality	2
Paying for Preschool: Who Blends Funding in Early Childhood Education?	2
Pipeline Philanthropy: Understanding Philanthropic Corporate Action in Education During the COVID-19 Era and Beyond	2
Effect of International Roommates on College Outcomes: Evidence from Students of Disadvantaged Backgrounds	2
Conceptualizing State Re-Engagement With Public Higher Education	2
An Examination of State Statutes and School District Policies Addressing Minors With Do Not Resuscitate Orders	2
Educational Stakeholder Sensemaking on Preparing CTE Students for Sub-Baccalaureate Pathways	2
Historicizing Black Educational “Choice”: Toward Black Educational Self-Determination	2
Conceptions and Practices of Equity in Research-Practice Partnerships	2
The Impact of State Principal Evaluation Policies on Equity for Economically Disadvantaged Students	2
Using an Emergency Plan to Combat Teacher Burnout Following a Natural Hazard	2
Critical Translingual Perspectives on California Multilingual Education Policy	2
Research-Practice Partnerships in Pursuit of Racial Justice in Schools: Navigating a Hostile Sociopolitical Climate	2
Need-Based Promise Programs, Performance Funding Bonuses, and the Enrollment of Low-Income Students	2
Contemporary Homeschooling Arrangements: An Analysis of Three Waves of Nationally Representative Data	2
School Funding and Equity in Australia: Critical Moments in the Context of Text Production Phase of the Education Policy Cycle	2
Chronic Absenteeism in Detroit’s Brightmoor Neighborhood: Addressing Systemic & Structural Inequities Through Participatory Action Research	2
Puerto Rican Student Activism and Enacting Consciousness in Chicago: Learned Lessons and Implications for Practice	2
The Politics of School Funding: How State Political Ideology is Associated With the Allocation of Revenue to School Districts	2
Understanding the Stakes: The Influence of Accountability Policy Options on Teachers’ Responses	2
Ensuring Educational Continuity in the Midst of Crisis: Policy and Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Postsecondary Policy Environments in Citizen Legislatures	2
STEM Education and the Contradictory Realities of School Policies	2
Instructional Policy From Pre-K to Third Grade: The Challenges of Fostering Alignment and Continuity in Two School Districts	2
Neoliberalism in Decline? New Pluralists Recast Schools in Los Angeles	2
Examining U.S. Teachers’ Working Conditions in Online Schools	2
Assessing the Predictive Validity of the Massachusetts Candidate Assessment of Performance	2