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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Indigenous Students and English Learner Identification: A Fifty-State Policy Review	39
College Behind Bars: A Historiography of Higher Education in Prison	28
A Tale of Two Systems: Choice and Equity in the District of Columbia’s Charter Schools	22
A Path Toward Racial Justice in Education: Anti-Racist Policy Decision Making in School Districts	20
Putting Parental Pushback in Context: A Comparative Case Study of a School District’s Gender Policy-As-Practice	18
The accountability paradigm post-NCLB: Policy Ideas and Moral Narratives	18
Reform for “These” Kids: Neoliberal Reform, Theorized Target Populations, and Spatial Injustice	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	16
A Framework for Deepening Racial Equity in Prenatal-Grade Three Systems: Lessons From a 10-Year Reflective Case Study	14
Whiteness and Ability: Discourses in Disability History Curriculum Legislation	13
State Goals, Institutional Social Constructions, and Utah’s Postsecondary Education Governance Reform Efforts	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
Community Policing in Schools and School Resource Officer Transparency	10
Variation in English Learners’ Programmatic Experiences and Postsecondary Trajectories	10
Comparing the Role of Attitudes on the Enactment of Academic and Non-Academic Education Performance Indicators	10
Politics, Covid, and In-Person Instruction During the First Year of the Pandemic	10
“Divisive” Education Legislation in the Midwest: A Critical Epistemic Policy Analysis	10
Associations Between Administrative Burden and Children’s ECE Stability During the Covid-19 Pandemic	9
Disenchanting Educational Policy and Leadership: An Introduction	9
Competency Based Education Pilot in Illinois: Preliminary Findings	9
Designing for a Productive Politics of Participation in Research Practice Partnerships	9
Unpacking the Power Dynamics of Funding Research-Practice Partnerships	9
Comparing the Costs of Online and Teacher-Directed Credit Recovery	9

Different or Differentiated? Recoupling Policy and Practice in an Era of Accountability	9
The Paradox of School Choice? Experimental Evidence on Choice Architecture, Anxiety, and Satisfaction	9
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
An Empirically Derived Framework for Building Strong Outdoor Education Partnerships	8
Moving Toward Integration or Segregation? Racial Change in Suburban Public Schools	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
Educational Policy: Analysis, Action, and Advocacy Across Contexts	7
Whose Agenda is It? Navigating the Politics of Setting the Research Agenda in Education Research-Practice Partnerships	7
An Event History Analysis of the Policy Adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards	7
Adolescents’ Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors, Mental Health, and Access to School Counselors: Evidence from Georgia	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	6
Hot Leadership, Cool Leadership: How Education Policies are Implemented (and Ignored) in Schools	6
Equitable Compensation to Attract and Retain Qualified Teachers in High-Need Alaska Public Schools	6
The Madness Behind the Method: What’s Really Beneath Anti-Critical Race Theory Legislation	6