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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A Tale of Two Systems: Choice and Equity in the District of Columbia’s Charter Schools	31
Indigenous Students and English Learner Identification: A Fifty-State Policy Review	20
The accountability paradigm post-NCLB: Policy Ideas and Moral Narratives	20
College Behind Bars: A Historiography of Higher Education in Prison	19
A Path Toward Racial Justice in Education: Anti-Racist Policy Decision Making in School Districts	18
Reform for “These” Kids: Neoliberal Reform, Theorized Target Populations, and Spatial Injustice	17
The Perceptions and Experiences of Faculty Implementing Florida’s Developmental Education Reform	16
The Adoption of Test-Based Grade Retention Policies: An Event History Analysis	15
A Framework for Deepening Racial Equity in Prenatal-Grade Three Systems: Lessons From a 10-Year Reflective Case Study	15
Putting Parental Pushback in Context: A Comparative Case Study of a School District’s Gender Policy-As-Practice	14
A Gap in Culturally Responsive Classroom Management Coverage? A Critical Policy Analysis of States’ School Discipline Policies	14
State Goals, Institutional Social Constructions, and Utah’s Postsecondary Education Governance Reform Efforts	13
Whiteness and Ability: Discourses in Disability History Curriculum Legislation	13
Advancing Institutional Change to Encourage Faculty Participation in Research-Practice Partnerships	13
Equity and Early Implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act in State-Designed Plans During COVID	12
Politics, Covid, and In-Person Instruction During the First Year of the Pandemic	12
High School Students’ Expectations and College Aspirations: Causes and Consequences	12
Comparing the Role of Attitudes on the Enactment of Academic and Non-Academic Education Performance Indicators	11
Improving Understanding of English Learner Education Through an Expanded Analytic Framework	11
Associations Between Administrative Burden and Children’s ECE Stability During the Covid-19 Pandemic	11
Competency Based Education Pilot in Illinois: Preliminary Findings	11
Community Policing in Schools and School Resource Officer Transparency	10
Comparing the Costs of Online and Teacher-Directed Credit Recovery	10
“This is Not Who We Are”: Students Leading for Anti-Racist Policy Changes in Alexandria City Public Schools, Virginia	10
Designing for a Productive Politics of Participation in Research Practice Partnerships	10

“Divisive” Education Legislation in the Midwest: A Critical Epistemic Policy Analysis	10
How State Education Leaders Supported Students’ Access to Education Amidst the COVID-19 Crisis: Lessons for Policy	9
Unpacking the Power Dynamics of Funding Research-Practice Partnerships	9
Different or Differentiated? Recoupling Policy and Practice in an Era of Accountability	9
Disenchanting Educational Policy and Leadership: An Introduction	9
Principal Leadership of Pre-K Programs in Elementary Schools: Evidence from North Carolina	8
Educational Policy: Analysis, Action, and Advocacy Across Contexts	8
Teacher Mental Health and District Employee Support in Rural Communities: A Sequential Exploratory Mixed Methods Study	8
An Empirically Derived Framework for Building Strong Outdoor Education Partnerships	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
Does It Matter Who Evaluates Teachers? Principal Versus Teacher-Led Evaluation and Teacher Motivation	7
State ESSA Plans and Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) Status	7
Good Schools, Bad Schools: Race, School Quality, and Neoliberal Educational Policy	7
Moving Toward Integration or Segregation? Racial Change in Suburban Public Schools	7
Adolescents’ Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors, Mental Health, and Access to School Counselors: Evidence from Georgia	6
An Event History Analysis of the Policy Adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards	6
Equitable Compensation to Attract and Retain Qualified Teachers in High-Need Alaska Public Schools	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
The Choice and Evaluation of Sexual Harassment Interventions in Institutions of Higher Education	6
The Importance of Being “Woke”: Charter Management Organizations and the Growth of Social Consciousness as a School Quality Marker	6
Retention and Educational Inequalities in the U.S.	6
The Madness Behind the Method: What’s Really Beneath Anti-Critical Race Theory Legislation	6
Whose Agenda is It? Navigating the Politics of Setting the Research Agenda in Education Research-Practice Partnerships	6
The Expansion of Title V: A Historical Analysis of the Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans Program	5
The Politics of Student Voice: The Power and Potential of Students as Policy Actors	5
Educational Philanthropy’s “Racial Reckoning” in the Wake of 2020: Understanding Grantmakers’ Responses to Racialized Crises	5
Personalized Learning Policy and Student Voice: A Statewide Case Study	5
Opportunity Structures for Student Activism, Diversity, and Institutional Change	5
Food Insecurity and Student Absence in the US and Across the Globe	5
“There Was Nothing Here”: School Leaders Using Dual Language Bilingual Education Programs as a Formula to Re-Engineer Student Populations for School Turnaround	5
The Evolution of Coaching as a Policy Instrument: How a District Engages in Organizational Learning	5
Reconsidering Determinants of Title IX Compliance: Introducing Admission Factors Disaggregated by Gender and Female Athletic Expenditures	5
Racialized Decoupling and Race-Neutral School Integration Policies From the Implementers’ Perspective	5
Public University Degree Audits: Who Incurs Excess Credit and Why	5
Segregation, Diversity, and Pathology: School Quality and Student Demographics in Gentrifying New York	4
Not “Citizens in Waiting”: Student Counter-Narratives of Anti-Equity Campaigns	4
Unpacking Legal Advancements for Asian American Students: A Political Discourse Analysis of Illinois’s House Bill 376	4
Does ESSA Assure the Use of Evidence-based Educational Practices?	4
“School’s a Lie”: Toward Critical Race Intersectional Pedagogy for Youth Intellectual Activism in Policy Partnerships	4
The Political and Social Contexts of Research Evidence Use in Partnerships	4
State-Level Efforts to Reform Elementary Science Education	4
It’s Complicated: Examining Political Realities and Challenges in the Context of Research-Practice Partnerships from the School District Leader’s Perspective	4
A Critical Qualitative Study of Inequities in Hispanic-Serving Institutions’ Grant-Seeking Competitiveness	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	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
Scaling Gender and Sexual Diversity Policies in K-12 Schools	4
Admissions Officers’ Perceptions When Undocumented Students Seek In-State Resident Tuition Policy	3

Institutional Transfer Logics Among Community College and University Stakeholders	3
Educational Stakeholder Sensemaking on Preparing CTE Students for Sub-Baccalaureate Pathways	3
STEM Education and the Contradictory Realities of School Policies	3
Beyond the Parameters of “Choice”: An Obliterated Vision for Traditional Public Schooling and the Contamination of the New Orleans Charter Restart Model	3
Chronic Absenteeism in Detroit’s Brightmoor Neighborhood: Addressing Systemic & Structural Inequities Through Participatory Action Research	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
State Education Agency Governance, Virtual Learning, and Student Privacy: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Conceptualizing State Re-Engagement With Public Higher Education	3
Conceptions and Practices of Equity in Research-Practice Partnerships	3
Meritocracy and Advantaged Parents’ Perceptions of the Fairness of School Choice Policies	2
Paying for Preschool: Who Blends Funding in Early Childhood Education?	2
Puerto Rican Student Activism and Enacting Consciousness in Chicago: Learned Lessons and Implications for Practice	2
Need-Based Promise Programs, Performance Funding Bonuses, and the Enrollment of Low-Income Students	2
Postsecondary Policy Environments in Citizen Legislatures	2
The Impact of State Principal Evaluation Policies on Equity for Economically Disadvantaged Students	2
Historicizing Black Educational “Choice”: Toward Black Educational Self-Determination	2
The Politics of School Funding: How State Political Ideology is Associated With the Allocation of Revenue to School Districts	2
Using an Emergency Plan to Combat Teacher Burnout Following a Natural Hazard	2
Instructional Policy From Pre-K to Third Grade: The Challenges of Fostering Alignment and Continuity in Two School Districts	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
An Examination of State Statutes and School District Policies Addressing Minors With Do Not Resuscitate Orders	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
Pipeline Philanthropy: Understanding Philanthropic Corporate Action in Education During the COVID-19 Era and Beyond	2
The State of Elementary School Recess in Georgia: Policy, the Pandemic, and Patterns of Play	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
School Districts as Invasive Actors in a Market School Choice Environment	2
Race Placed: Special Education Identification and Placement of Black Students	2
Ensuring Educational Continuity in the Midst of Crisis: Policy and Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Effect of International Roommates on College Outcomes: Evidence from Students of Disadvantaged Backgrounds	2
Mapping the Field of Shared Governance: Understanding the Landscape of Staff Representation Mechanisms in the American South	2
Examining U.S. Teachers’ Working Conditions in Online Schools	2
Understanding the Stakes: The Influence of Accountability Policy Options on Teachers’ Responses	2