Background: COVID-19 had a major global impact on education, prompting concerns about
its unequal effects and some impetus to reboot equity strategies. Yet, policy processes …

In recent decades, there has been considerable public interest and policy action regarding
the issue of exclusionary discipline from early care and education (ECE) settings. While …

Research conducted in the twentieth century found urban Catholic schools in the US had a
legacy of providing high quality educational opportunities for low-income students and …

This article examines how leaders in public, private, and hybrid educational systems
manage competing pressures in their institutional environments. Across all systems, leaders …

This article reports on findings from an ethnographic and comparative study examining
interactions between educational systems and mutual respect in classrooms. I define mutual …

Background and Purpose: District school improvement efforts have increasingly focused on
improving the quality of support principals receive from the central office. This study uses the …

A sustained policy press to improve quality and reduce disparities in public education is
driving US public school districts to organize and manage instruction for excellence and …

Institutional theory, an important research tradition in analysis of schooling, has examined
the development of mass schooling in the United States and worldwide. But research in this …

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 …

Purpose: In the wake of interlocking pandemics, educational systems are resetting in
important ways, pursuing aims that are not exclusively instructional (eg, social justice, well …