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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The accountability paradigm post-NCLB: Policy Ideas and Moral Narratives	29
A Tale of Two Systems: Choice and Equity in the District of Columbia’s Charter Schools	27
Indigenous Students and English Learner Identification: A Fifty-State Policy Review	20
College Behind Bars: A Historiography of Higher Education in Prison	18
A Path Toward Racial Justice in Education: Anti-Racist Policy Decision Making in School Districts	17
The Perceptions and Experiences of Faculty Implementing Florida’s Developmental Education Reform	17
Advancing Institutional Change to Encourage Faculty Participation in Research-Practice Partnerships	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	14
Whiteness and Ability: Discourses in Disability History Curriculum Legislation	13
A Gap in Culturally Responsive Classroom Management Coverage? A Critical Policy Analysis of States’ School Discipline Policies	13
On the Role of Teacher Unions in Social Justice	13
Reform for “These” Kids: Neoliberal Reform, Theorized Target Populations, and Spatial Injustice	13
High School Students’ Expectations and College Aspirations: Causes and Consequences	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
Comparing the Costs of Online and Teacher-Directed Credit Recovery	11
Associations Between Administrative Burden and Children’s ECE Stability During the Covid-19 Pandemic	11
Improving Understanding of English Learner Education Through an Expanded Analytic Framework	11
“This is Not Who We Are”: Students Leading for Anti-Racist Policy Changes in Alexandria City Public Schools, Virginia	11
Competency Based Education Pilot in Illinois: Preliminary Findings	11
Comparing the Role of Attitudes on the Enactment of Academic and Non-Academic Education Performance Indicators	11
Politics, Covid, and In-Person Instruction During the First Year of the Pandemic	11
Designing for a Productive Politics of Participation in Research Practice Partnerships	10
Principal Perceptions of the Distance Learning Transition During the Pandemic	10

“Divisive” Education Legislation in the Midwest: A Critical Epistemic Policy Analysis	10
Community Policing in Schools and School Resource Officer Transparency	10
How State Education Leaders Supported Students’ Access to Education Amidst the COVID-19 Crisis: Lessons for Policy	9
Different or Differentiated? Recoupling Policy and Practice in an Era of Accountability	9
Unpacking the Power Dynamics of Funding Research-Practice Partnerships	9
Teacher Mental Health and District Employee Support in Rural Communities: A Sequential Exploratory Mixed Methods Study	9
Disenchanting Educational Policy and Leadership: An Introduction	9
Child Education Rights Versus Parental Preferences: A Paradox Between United Nations Conventions and Alternative Schooling Methods	8
Principal Leadership of Pre-K Programs in Elementary Schools: Evidence from North Carolina	8
State ESSA Plans and Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) Status	7
Moving Toward Integration or Segregation? Racial Change in Suburban Public Schools	7
The Signaling Power of Unexcused Absence from School	7
An Empirically Derived Framework for Building Strong Outdoor Education Partnerships	7
Educational Policy: Analysis, Action, and Advocacy Across Contexts	7
Good Schools, Bad Schools: Race, School Quality, and Neoliberal Educational Policy	7
Does It Matter Who Evaluates Teachers? Principal Versus Teacher-Led Evaluation and Teacher Motivation	7
The Rhetoric of Teacher Evaluation: New York City Teachers’ Responses to Performance Labels	6
Digital Redlining: The Relevance of 20th Century Housing Policy to 21st Century Broadband Access and Education	6
Adolescents’ Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors, Mental Health, and Access to School Counselors: Evidence from Georgia	6
Opportunity Structures for Student Activism, Diversity, and Institutional Change	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
Retention and Educational Inequalities in the U.S.	6
The Importance of Being “Woke”: Charter Management Organizations and the Growth of Social Consciousness as a School Quality Marker	6
Whose Agenda is It? Navigating the Politics of Setting the Research Agenda in Education Research-Practice Partnerships	6
Hot Leadership, Cool Leadership: How Education Policies are Implemented (and Ignored) in Schools	6
The Boundaries of Competition: Examining Charter Schools’ Impact on Traditional Schools	6
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