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Redrawing Attendance Boundaries to Promote Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Elementary Schools Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Nabeel Gillani, Doug Beeferman, Christine Vega-Pourheydarian, Cassandra Overney, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Deb Roy
Most U.S. school districts draw “attendance boundaries” to define catchment areas that assign students to schools near their homes, often recapitulating neighborhood demographic segregation in scho...
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School Disruptions Exacerbated Inequality in High School Completion Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Ran Liu
Using school-month-level learning mode data and high school completion rates across three school years from 429 Wisconsin public high schools, this study examines the impact of disruptions to in-pe...
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The Effect of Right to Work Laws on Union Membership and School Resources: Evidence from 1942–2017 Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Melissa Arnold Lyon
In the Janus v. AFCSME (2018) decision, the U.S. Supreme Court mandated that all public sector workers, including teachers, operate in a Right to Work (RTW) framework. In the years since, teachers’...
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Beyond Making a Statement: An Intersectional Framing of the Power and Possibilities of Positioning Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Mildred Boveda, Subini Ancy Annamma
In this essay, two women of Color researchers examine the intersections of race and disability and ask, “What is the power and purpose of positioning and positionality statements?” Informed by Blac...
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Disrupting White Supremacy and Anti-Black Racism in Educational Organizations Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 John B. Diamond, Louis M. Gomez
White supremacy and anti-Black racism are deeply embedded in educational organizations and disrupting them is key to creating more racially just schools. This essay details how the regular practice...
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Anti-Black Racism and Asian American Local Educational Activism: A Critical Race Discourse Analysis Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Rossina Zamora Liu, William Ming Liu, Janelle S. Wong, Richard Q. Shin
In this critical race discourse analysis of legal documents and correspondence, we discuss how a small number of highly organized and visible groups of Asian American parent activists oppose admiss...
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Abolishing, Renarrativizing, and Revaluing: Dismantling Antiblack Racism in Education Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Kathy Hytten, Kurt Stemhagen
In this article, we argue for the value of theorizing antiblackness to educational justice efforts, particularly those aimed at ensuring Black students succeed and thrive in schools. We first defin...
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Anti-Blackness and Attendance Policy Implementation: Evidence From a Midwestern School District Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Erica B. Edwards, Jeremy Singer, Sarah Winchell Lenhoff
This study considers the degree to which attendance policies and practices to address chronic absenteeism in a large Midwestern urban school district create suffering in Black parents’ experiences....
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A Web of Punishment: Examining Black Student Interactions With School Police in Los Angeles Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Terry Allen, Pedro Noguera
The presence of armed police officers in schools has sparked considerable policy debate and demands for reform. Thus far, much of the debate has centered on an empirical analysis of school resource...
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Ceilings Made of Glass and Leaving En Masse? Examining Superintendent Gender Gaps and Turnover Over Time Across the United States Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Rachel S. White
Given that a national superintendent dataset has never existed, claims about superintendent turnover and gender gaps have traditionally been based on conjecture or data from a single year and small...
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Portraying Teacher Education for Inclusion: An Analysis of the Institutional Discourse of Dual Certification Programs Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Joyce Gomez-Najarro, Marleen C. Pugach, Linda P. Blanton
Dual certification programs are proliferating as the principal means of preparing teachers for inclusive practice. Drawing on the 1,408 university-based teacher education programs on the 2019 Title...
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White Christian Nationalism: What Is It, and Why Does It Matter for Educational Research? Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Kevin J. Burke, Mary Juzwik, Esther Prins
The ascendance of White Christian nationalism has profound implications for democracy and public institutions in the United States, including public education. This article explains the core belief...
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How Did Colleges Disburse Emergency Aid During COVID-19? An Implementation Analysis of the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Elizabeth Bell, David Schwegman, Michael Hand, Michael DiDomenico
To address the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress authorized the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF I) in March 2020 with over $6 billion allocated for emergency...
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Principal Beliefs Predict Responses to Individual Students’ Misbehavior Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Z. E. Ferguson, Shoshana N. Jarvis, Stephen Antonoplis, Jason A. Okonofua
National policies have targeted widespread exclusionary discipline in schools which is associated with negative academic outcomes. Principals play an important role in making disciplinary decisions...
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What Counts as a Minority-Serving Institution? Toward the Utilization of a Standardized and Uniform Definition and Typology Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Mike Hoa Nguyen, Joseph J. Ramirez, Sophia Laderman
Minority-serving institutions (MSIs) are unique in their ability to support the educational advancement of students of color. Approximately one in five postsecondary institutions are eligible for f...
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Classroom Data Visualization: Tracking Individuals During Group-Centered Instruction Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Martha B. Makowski, Sarah Theule Lubienski
Understanding students’ participation in collaborative classroom settings is important in a variety of educational contexts, with implications for teaching, research, and equity. Using data from a ...
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An Integrated Framework for Studying How Schools Respond to External Pressures Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 David K. Diehl, Joanne W. Golann
The changing educational landscape requires new organizational frameworks to understand how schools and universities make sense of and respond to broader institutional forces like accountability, d...
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What Do So-Called Critical Race Theory Bans Say? Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Laura Beth Kelly
In the wake of racial justice protests in the United States, many states adopted policies to constrain the discussion of racism, particularly contemporary and systemic racism, in K-12 classrooms. D...
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The Effect-Size Benchmark That Matters Most: Education Interventions Often Fail Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Matthew A. Kraft
It is a healthy exercise to debate the merits of using effect-size benchmarks to interpret research findings. However, these debates obscure a more central insight that emerges from empirical distr...
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Two Years Later: How COVID-19 Has Shaped the Teacher Workforce Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Olivia L. Chi, Alexis Orellana
The unprecedented challenges of teaching during COVID-19 prompted fears of a mass exodus from the profession. We examine the extent to which these fears were realized using administrative records o...
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A Structural Econometric Approach to Analyzing the Impact of Teacher Pension Reform Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Wei Kong, Shawn Ni
The growing fiscal cost of K–12 teacher pension plans and pension-induced labor market distortions have led to calls for teacher pension reforms. Dynamic structural econometric models are a useful ...
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The Long-Term Solvency of Teacher Pension Plans: How We Got to Now and Prospects for Recovery Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Andrew G. Biggs
The COVID-related financial market decline and economic recession have raised new concerns regarding the financial sustainability of retirement plans for state and local government employees, the l...
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Teacher Pension Reform Must Be About Cost and Design Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Andrew J. Rotherham
This commentary discusses how the teacher pension debate is often predicated on the idea of generous benefits for teachers and whether those are deserved, when in practice most teachers are disadva...
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How Much Do Teachers Value Compensation Deferred for Retirement? Evidence From Defined Contribution Rate Choices Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Dan Goldhaber, Kristian L. Holden
How much do teachers value compensation deferred for retirement (CDR)? This question is important because the vast majority of public school teachers are covered by defined benefit pension plans th...
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Incentivizing Retirement: An Analysis of Cash Retirement Incentives for Chicago Teachers Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 James Hosek, David Knapp, Michael G. Mattock, Beth J. Asch
Retirement incentives are frequently used by school districts facing financial difficulties. They provide a means of either decreasing staff size or replacing retiring senior teachers with less exp...
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Commentary on Teacher Pension Papers Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Richard J. Murnane
This commentary explains how changing labor market conditions have made it more important for schools to attract and retain skilled teachers and yet more difficult to do so. This is important conte...
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Teacher Pensions: An Overview Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Kata Mihaly, Michael Podgursky
This article provides an overview for the special issue and a framework for thinking about the included papers. We begin by explaining why teacher pensions is a topic that should be of interest to ...
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The Three R’s of Teacher Pension Funding: Redistribution, Return, and Risk Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Robert M. Costrell
How are teacher pension benefits funded? Under traditional plans, the full cost of career teachers’ benefits far exceeds the contributions designated for them. The gap between the two has three pie...
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Meal Vouchers Matter for Academic Attainment: A Community College Field Experiment Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Katharine M. Broton, Milad Mohebali, Sara Goldrick-Rab
Given growing awareness of the high prevalence of food insecurity among college students, higher education leaders are implementing various food interventions on their campuses. However, there is l...
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Disrupting Three Prominent Racialized Trauma Tropes Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Adam Julian Alvarez
School-based actors can uphold racialized systems and White supremacy through the racialized youth trauma narratives they reproduce. With respect to the growing movement to better support trauma-ex...
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School Inclusion of Refugee Students: Recent Trends From International Data Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 North Cooc, Grace MyHyun Kim
As children with refugee backgrounds continue to enroll in schools worldwide, attention to their educational needs and experiences has increased. In this study, we analyze the extent that schools a...
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Toward a Class-Conscious Approach to Cultural Responsiveness Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Aaron Leo
The last several decades have seen a growth in scholarship and application of culturally responsive and sustaining educational (CRSE) approaches in schools serving youth of color. A growing body of...
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The Relationship Between Varying Levels of Online Enrollment and Degree Completion Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Justin C. Ortagus
This study examines the influence of varying levels of online enrollment on community college students’ likelihood of degree completion, with a particular focus on completion outcomes among traditi...
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Educators Are Not Alright: Mental Health During COVID-19 Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Matthew J. Hirshberg, Richard J. Davidson, Simon B. Goldberg
Educator mental health sits at the intersection of multiple pressing educational issues. We are among the first to provide estimates of school system employee (SSE) stress, anxiety, and depression ...
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Misrepresented Funding Gaps in Data for Some States Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Matthew Gardner Kelly, Danielle Farrie
This brief describes how several commonly used per-pupil funding measures derived from federal data include passthrough funding in the numerator but exclude students attached to this funding from t...
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Persistence of Poverty: How Measures of Socioeconomic Status Have Changed Over Time Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Kody Long, Rachel Renbarger
Socioeconomic status (SES) is a common measure used to gauge social, cultural, and financial capital in scientific literature. Over time, SES research has produced an extremely wide and inconsisten...
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The Widening Achievement Gap Between Rich and Poor in a Nordic Country Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Astrid Marie Jorde Sandsør, Henrik Daae Zachrisson, Lynn A. Karoly, Eric Dearing
We study a decade of achievement gaps for fifth-, eighth-, and 10th-grade students in Norway using administrative population data. Norway is a wealthy and egalitarian country with a homogeneous edu...
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Making Catholic Schools Research Relevant: Assessing Contemporary Trends in the Field of Catholic Education Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Andrew F. Miller, Kevin J. Burke
Despite the outsized influence the Catholic school sector in the United States has on policymaking, research into the organization of Catholic schools has not kept pace with contemporary educationa...
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How Do U.S. Colleges and Universities Help Students Address Basic Needs? A National Inventory of Resources for Food and Housing Insecurity Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Katherine E. Speirs, Stephanie K. Grutzmacher, Ashley L. Munger, Timothy M. Ottusch
This study documents the resources U.S. colleges and universities offer to address student food and housing insecurity and explores differences across community colleges, four-year public schools, ...
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The Long-Term Impacts of Corequisite Mathematics Remediation with Statistics: Degree Completion and Wage Outcomes Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Daniel Douglas, Alexandra W. Logue, Mari Watanabe-Rose
Community colleges are essential for United States higher education, but their students have low retention and graduation rates. Community college students assigned to mathematics remediation are p...
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Mixed Signals? Economically (Dis)advantaged Students’ College Attendance Under Mandatory College and Career Readiness Assessments Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Christian Michael Smith, Noah Hirschl
In 2015, Wisconsin began mandating the ACT college entrance exam and the WorkKeys career readiness assessment. With population-level data and several quasi-experimental designs, we assess how this ...
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Black School Closings Aren’t New: Historically Contextualizing Contemporary School Closings and Black Community Resistance Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Jerome E. Morris, Benjamin D. Parker, Luimil M. Negrón
Whereas increased scholarly attention is focusing on contemporary school closings, noticeably absent is the placement of this scholarship within the historical context of Black people’s social expe...
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Teacher Turnover in Early Childhood Education: Longitudinal Evidence From the Universe of Publicly Funded Programs in Louisiana Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Laura Bellows, Daphna Bassok, Anna J. Markowitz
This study uses longitudinal data to follow a cohort (N = 4,465) of all early childhood education teachers working in publicly funded, center-based settings in Louisiana over a 3-year period. We pr...
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Bridging Educational Change and Social Justice: A Call to the Field Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Amanda Datnow, Mariko Yoshisato, Brandie Macdonald, Jessica Trejos, Benjamin C. Kennedy
The education research community, both within the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and beyond, could and should play a critical role in fundamentally transforming educational instit...
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Teachers’ Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Joseph M. Kush, Elena Badillo-Goicoechea, Rashelle J. Musci, Elizabeth A. Stuart
With an emergence of research investigating the educational impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, empirical studies assessing teachers’ mental health throughout the pandemic have been scarce. Using a l...
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K–12 Civil Rights Complaints: A Nationwide Analysis Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Maithreyi Gopalan, Maria M. Lewis
Very little is known about the complaint investigation process in the Office for Civil Rights, despite its scope and reach. We examine key parameters (number and types of complaints received, types...
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Posts About Students on Facebook: A Data Ethics Perspective Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Joshua M. Rosenberg, Conrad Borchers, Macy A. Burchfield, Daniel Anderson, Sondra M. Stegenga, Christian Fischer
Public schools and districts use social media to share announcements and communicate with parents and the community, but alongside such uses run risks to students’ privacy. Using a novel data set o...
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The Stability of Families’ Revealed Preferences for Schools Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Mark J. Chin
I investigate longitudinal preferences for schools revealed by families’ applications to middle and high schools within a large urban school district’s universal enrollment system. I find that pref...
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Has “Who Comes Back” Changed? Teacher Reentry 2000–2019 Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Anna Moyer
Studies of early-career teachers in the 1970s–1990s find that one-quarter to one-half of teachers who left the classroom eventually returned and that returning was associated with teachers’ gender ...
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Fiscal Federalism and K–12 Education Funding: Policy Lessons from Two Educational Crises Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Kenneth Shores, Matthew P. Steinberg
We synthesize and critique federal fiscal policy during the Great Recession and COVID-19 pandemic. First, the amount of aid during both crises was inadequate to meet policy goals. Second, the mecha...
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Moving Through the Pipeline: Ethnic and Linguistic Disparities in Special Education from Birth Through Age Five Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Lauren M. Cycyk, Stephanie De Anda, Katrina L. Ramsey, Bruce S. Sheppard, Katharine Zuckerman
This study examined Oregon’s early intervention (EI) and early childhood special education (ECSE) pipelines as a function of children’s intersecting ethnicity and home language(s) with a focus on c...
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Replicating and Extending Effects of “Achievement Gap” Discourse Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 David M. Quinn, Tara-Marie Desruisseaux
Scholars argue that the “racial achievement gap” frame perpetuates deficit mindsets. Previously, we found that teachers gave lower priority to racial equity when disparities were framed as “achieve...
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“You Need to Be More Responsible”: The Myth of Meritocracy and Teachers’ Accounts of Homework Inequalities Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Jessica McCrory Calarco, Ilana S. Horn, Grace A. Chen
How do teachers account for homework-related inequalities? Our longitudinal ethnographic study reveals that, despite awareness of structural inequalities in their students’ lives, elementary- and m...
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Framing an Ecological Perspective on Teacher Professional Development Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Nadav Ehrenfeld
From a teacher’s perspective, teacher learning happens through a complex web of learning experiences. However, research on teacher professional development (PD) typically focuses on the direct infl...
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Documenting Their Decisions: How Undocumented Students Enroll and Persist in College Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Oded Gurantz, Ann Obadan
The absence of federal support leaves undocumented students reliant on state policies to financially support their postsecondary education. We descriptively examine the postsecondary trajectories of tens of thousands of undocumented students newly eligible for California’s state-aid program, using detailed application data to compare them to similar peers. In this context, undocumented students who
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Vertical Scales, Deceleration, and Empirical Benchmarks for Growth Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Sanford R. Student
Empirical growth benchmarks, as introduced by Hill, Bloom, Black, and Lipsey (2008), are a well-known way to contextualize effect sizes in education research. Past work on these benchmarks, both positive and negative, has largely avoided confronting the role of vertical scales, yet technical issues with vertical scales trouble the use of such benchmarks. This article introduces vertical scales and
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Sex, Gender, and Education Research: The Case for Transgender Studies in Education Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Elizabeth J. Meyer
This article situates transgender studies in education within related bodies of education research literature to highlight this field as an important emerging area of scholarship. This scholarship ...
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Methodology as Pedagogy: Trans Lives, Social Science, and the Possibilities of Education Research Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Harper B. Keenan
Over the past decade, public awareness of transgender people has rapidly increased. Yet people who do not conform to the expectations of their assigned gender often face social prejudice and struct...
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Teachers’ Strategies for Supporting Transgender and/or Gender-Expansive Elementary School Students Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Melinda M. Mangin
This qualitative study examines elementary teachers’ strategies for supporting trans and/or gender-expansive elementary students. The findings come from observations and interviews with a purposive...
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A Starting Point: Gender, Hot Cognition, and Trans-Informed Administrative Guidance Educ. Res. (IF 6.386) Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Mollie T. McQuillan
Trans-informed administrative guidance introduces concepts from trans studies to educational leaders, but researchers have relatively ignored these policy implementation tools. This content analysi...