OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Educational Policy is 6. 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
A Path Toward Racial Justice in Education: Anti-Racist Policy Decision Making in School Districts	16
College Behind Bars: A Historiography of Higher Education in Prison	16
Putting Parental Pushback in Context: A Comparative Case Study of a School District’s Gender Policy-As-Practice	15
The Adoption of Test-Based Grade Retention Policies: An Event History Analysis	14
A Framework for Deepening Racial Equity in Prenatal-Grade Three Systems: Lessons From a 10-Year Reflective Case Study	14
A Gap in Culturally Responsive Classroom Management Coverage? A Critical Policy Analysis of States’ School Discipline Policies	13
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
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
Politics, Covid, and In-Person Instruction During the First Year of the Pandemic	11
Improving Understanding of English Learner Education Through an Expanded Analytic Framework	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
“Divisive” Education Legislation in the Midwest: A Critical Epistemic Policy Analysis	9
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
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
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
An Empirically Derived Framework for Building Strong Outdoor Education Partnerships	7
Moving Toward Integration or Segregation? Racial Change in Suburban Public Schools	7
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 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
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