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 2022-06-01 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
Substantial Early College Credit: A Complex Systems Perspective	18
Reform for “These” Kids: Neoliberal Reform, Theorized Target Populations, and Spatial Injustice	18
The Adoption of Test-Based Grade Retention Policies: An Event History Analysis	17
A Framework for Deepening Racial Equity in Prenatal-Grade Three Systems: Lessons From a 10-Year Reflective Case Study	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
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
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
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