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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
College Behind Bars: A Historiography of Higher Education in Prison	40
A Path Toward Racial Justice in Education: Anti-Racist Policy Decision Making in School Districts	28
Indigenous Students and English Learner Identification: A Fifty-State Policy Review	23
A Tale of Two Systems: Choice and Equity in the District of Columbia’s Charter Schools	20
The accountability paradigm post-NCLB: Policy Ideas and Moral Narratives	19
Reform for “These” Kids: Neoliberal Reform, Theorized Target Populations, and Spatial Injustice	18
Substantial Early College Credit: A Complex Systems Perspective	18
A Framework for Deepening Racial Equity in Prenatal-Grade Three Systems: Lessons From a 10-Year Reflective Case Study	17
The Adoption of Test-Based Grade Retention Policies: An Event History Analysis	17
Advancing Institutional Change to Encourage Faculty Participation in Research-Practice Partnerships	14
Putting Parental Pushback in Context: A Comparative Case Study of a School District’s Gender Policy-As-Practice	14
Whiteness and Ability: Discourses in Disability History Curriculum Legislation	13
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
Variation in English Learners’ Programmatic Experiences and Postsecondary Trajectories	11
Politics, Covid, and In-Person Instruction During the First Year of the Pandemic	11
State Goals, Institutional Social Constructions, and Utah’s Postsecondary Education Governance Reform Efforts	11
Comparing the Costs of Online and Teacher-Directed Credit Recovery	10
“Divisive” Education Legislation in the Midwest: A Critical Epistemic Policy Analysis	10
Designing for a Productive Politics of Participation in Research Practice Partnerships	10
Associations Between Administrative Burden and Children’s ECE Stability During the Covid-19 Pandemic	10
Community Policing in Schools and School Resource Officer Transparency	10
Competency Based Education Pilot in Illinois: Preliminary Findings	10
Comparing the Role of Attitudes on the Enactment of Academic and Non-Academic Education Performance Indicators	9
The Paradox of School Choice? Experimental Evidence on Choice Architecture, Anxiety, and Satisfaction	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
Governing Generative Artificial Intelligence: Institutional Policies and Guidelines at America’s Flagship Universities	8
An Empirically Derived Framework for Building Strong Outdoor Education Partnerships	8
Principal Leadership of Pre-K Programs in Elementary Schools: Evidence from North Carolina	8
How State Education Leaders Supported Students’ Access to Education Amidst the COVID-19 Crisis: Lessons for Policy	8
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	8
Teacher Mental Health and District Employee Support in Rural Communities: A Sequential Exploratory Mixed Methods Study	8
Does It Matter Who Evaluates Teachers? Principal Versus Teacher-Led Evaluation and Teacher Motivation	8
Retention and Educational Inequalities in the U.S.	7
Equitable Compensation to Attract and Retain Qualified Teachers in High-Need Alaska Public Schools	7
Moving Toward Integration or Segregation? Racial Change in Suburban Public Schools	7
Hot Leadership, Cool Leadership: How Education Policies are Implemented (and Ignored) in Schools	7
The Choice and Evaluation of Sexual Harassment Interventions in Institutions of Higher Education	7
Digital Redlining: The Relevance of 20th Century Housing Policy to 21st Century Broadband Access and Education	7
Educational Policy: Analysis, Action, and Advocacy Across Contexts	7
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
Adolescents’ Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors, Mental Health, and Access to School Counselors: Evidence from Georgia	6
Whose Agenda is It? Navigating the Politics of Setting the Research Agenda in Education Research-Practice Partnerships	6
Inclusive Emergency Preparedness as a Lever for School Improvement	5
Personalized Learning Policy and Student Voice: A Statewide Case Study	5
The Evolution of Coaching as a Policy Instrument: How a District Engages in Organizational Learning	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
Opportunity Structures for Student Activism, Diversity, and Institutional Change	5
Public University Degree Audits: Who Incurs Excess Credit and Why	5
Racialized Decoupling and Race-Neutral School Integration Policies From the Implementers’ Perspective	5
Food Insecurity and Student Absence in the US and Across the Globe	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
Educational Philanthropy’s “Racial Reckoning” in the Wake of 2020: Understanding Grantmakers’ Responses to Racialized Crises	5
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
Institutional Transfer Logics Among Community College and University Stakeholders	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
Using Predictive Analytics to Allocate Educational Resources: An Application to Career and Technical Education	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
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	3
Admissions Officers’ Perceptions When Undocumented Students Seek In-State Resident Tuition Policy	3
The Challenge of Measuring Instructional Coach Effectiveness	3
Effect of International Roommates on College Outcomes: Evidence from Students of Disadvantaged Backgrounds	3
Educational Stakeholder Sensemaking on Preparing CTE Students for Sub-Baccalaureate Pathways	3
State Education Agency Governance, Virtual Learning, and Student Privacy: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Chronic Absenteeism in Detroit’s Brightmoor Neighborhood: Addressing Systemic & Structural Inequities Through Participatory Action Research	3

Conceptualizing State Re-Engagement With Public Higher Education	3
The Varying Impacts of Merit-Aid Policy Design on Enrollment, Retention, and Graduation at Public Four-Year Colleges and Universities	3
Beyond the Parameters of “Choice”: An Obliterated Vision for Traditional Public Schooling and the Contamination of the New Orleans Charter Restart Model	3
Contemporary Homeschooling Arrangements: An Analysis of Three Waves of Nationally Representative Data	3
Conceptions and Practices of Equity in Research-Practice Partnerships	3
Adolescent Math Anxiety: Teachers’ Grouping Approach at the Intersection of Multiple Student Identities	3
Pipeline Philanthropy: Understanding Philanthropic Corporate Action in Education During the COVID-19 Era and Beyond	2
Rezoning Educational Opportunities: The Relationship Between School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes and Access to Schools of Varying Quality	2
Ensuring Educational Continuity in the Midst of Crisis: Policy and Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Historicizing Black Educational “Choice”: Toward Black Educational Self-Determination	2
Critical Translingual Perspectives on California Multilingual Education Policy	2
Postsecondary Policy Environments in Citizen Legislatures	2
Mapping the Field of Shared Governance: Understanding the Landscape of Staff Representation Mechanisms in the American South	2
The Impact of State Principal Evaluation Policies on Equity for Economically Disadvantaged Students	2
School Funding and Equity in Australia: Critical Moments in the Context of Text Production Phase of the Education Policy Cycle	2
Understanding the Stakes: The Influence of Accountability Policy Options on Teachers’ Responses	2
Meritocracy and Advantaged Parents’ Perceptions of the Fairness of School Choice Policies	2
An Examination of State Statutes and School District Policies Addressing Minors With Do Not Resuscitate Orders	2
Race Placed: Special Education Identification and Placement of Black Students	2
Examining U.S. Teachers’ Working Conditions in Online Schools	2
STEM Education and the Contradictory Realities of School Policies	2
The State of Elementary School Recess in Georgia: Policy, the Pandemic, and Patterns of Play	2
Using an Emergency Plan to Combat Teacher Burnout Following a Natural Hazard	2
Paying for Preschool: Who Blends Funding in Early Childhood Education?	2
Student Homelessness in a County Governance Landscape: Fragmented Systems, Disconnected Schools	2
Need-Based Promise Programs, Performance Funding Bonuses, and the Enrollment of Low-Income Students	2
Assessing the Predictive Validity of the Massachusetts Candidate Assessment of Performance	2
The Politics of School Funding: How State Political Ideology is Associated With the Allocation of Revenue to School Districts	2
School Districts as Invasive Actors in a Market School Choice Environment	2
Research-Practice Partnerships in Pursuit of Racial Justice in Schools: Navigating a Hostile Sociopolitical Climate	2