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CFP: Education Policies for School Desegregation
2025-10-20
Call forspecial issue submissions in English on the impacts, effects, and challenges of education policies for school desegregation. Abstracts dueDecember 8, 2025.
Read more about CFP: Education Policies for School DesegregationCurrent Issue
Vol. 33 (2025)
Published:2025-10-21
“We're being erased. And nobody's talking about that”: Race-conscious versus race-evasive perspectives on school board takeovers and policy termination recommendations
Olivia Marcucci, Aaron Park, Madelyn Yoo, Kelly HarrisDiscourse and subject in the Agenda 2030 for education: Implications for educational policies in Brazil
Marcia Aparecida Amador Mascia, Luciana Aparecida Silva de AzeredoResolution CNE/CES No. 6/2018 and physical education training for health: A qualitative systematic review
Ana Dahlke, Andressa Marques da Silva, Andrea Tragino Plotegher, Alex Branco FragaThe discursive tactics of perpetuating white normativity in public education: A critical policy discourse analysis of anti-CRT policies across 18 states
Alison Wilson, Alissa Blair, Jason Endacott, Christopher Giller, Christian Z. GoeringPublic sports policies in interface with education: Planning educational sports in Brazil between 2003 and 2024
Juliana Marta Antunes Ramos, Breno Brey D'auria, Luana Carla André, Bruno Modesto Silvestre, Dirceu Santos SilvaThe effect of teachers’ social and emotional competencies on students’ academic achievement
Tommy Wells, Amy AulettoTrajectory of the Student Financing Fund (Fies) policy under the Temer and Bolsonaro administrations (2016–2022)
Camila Yuri Santana Ikuta, Gladys Beatriz BarreyroTaxpayer-funded private school vouchers and market failure: A policy scan and review from 1869 to 2024
David E. DeMatthews, Torri D. Hart, David S. KnightFrom location to collusion: The heterogeneous ways in which private schools navigate the educational marketplace
Gabriel Gutiérrez, Macarena Hernández, Lya Rogers-Cerda“We are an open-door school”: Institutional factors facilitating the concentration of migrant students in schools in Santiago, Chile
Claudia Cordoba, Karina Rojas, Carolina Altamirano, Rodrigo GonzálezChallenges to the education rights of children on the move in Latin America: A scoping review
Claudia Diaz-Rios, Tatiana Feitosa de Britto, Gisele Cuglievan-Mindreau, Sana Abuleil, Indira Quintasi-OroscoPartnering to make a homeplace for Black families: Black women's systemic leadership in an era of retrenchment
Dana Nickson, Sefanit Habtom, Simone Ngongi-Lukula, Yikealo Beyene, Ann M. IshimaruPandemic, local leadership, and educational responses: The Portuguese case
João Sebastião, Eva Gonçalves, Luísa DelgadoBoundary spanning in state education agencies: How state officials support school counseling
Mandy Savitz-Romer, Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon, Tara P. Nicola, Stephanie CarrollCurricular policy response to an educational crisis in Peru and Chile: Reflections after the COVID-19 pandemic
María Paz Faúndez, Lileya Manrique-Villavicencio, Diana Mercedes Revilla Figueroa, Angélica GuzmánExternal actors and educational access in protracted crises: Evidence from Guinea-Bissau
Rui da Silva, Joana Oliveira, N'Cak Silva MorgadoAdequacy and absence of mathematics and Portuguese-language high school teachers: Differences among Brazilian states
Kaizo Iwakami Beltrao, Luiz Fernando Guilhem Nassif MaiaGaining a better understanding of teacher absenteeism: How structural and organizational factors impact a teacher’s decision to be absent
Jacqueline A. Gardner, A. Chris TorresAnalysis of the implementation of the Digital Functional Settlement (AFD) of government employees in Brazilian federal institutes
Flávia Candido Nogueira Merini, Ingrid Scherer, Júlio Eduardo Ornelas Silva, Anderson Sasaki Vasques PachecoStart Me Up: Exploring the effect of internet-enabled computers on Brazilian High School National Exam performance amid the COVID-19 crisis
Wallace Lobato Siqueira, Kamila Gabriela Jacob, Leonardo Chaves Borges CardosoChallenges of implementing e-learning in African universities: Experiences from Ethiopia and Rwanda
Mikyas Abera, Pierre C. Bimenyimana, Solomon Mekonnen Abebe, Jean Claude Byungura, Raymond Ndikumana, Mustofa W. JemalCareer barriers, coping strategies, and satisfaction with the academic experience of quota students
Leonardo de Oliveira Barros, Arthur Cortial Carvalho MagalhãesUnveiling the antecedents of faculty engagement in outreach activities based on the theory of planned behavior
Diego Fillipe de Souza, Érika Sabrina Felix Azevedo, José Ricardo Costa de MendonçaMaker culture: Awareness and implementation potential as educational policy in Brazil
Eder Angelo Sanches, Oscar Ulloa-Guerra, Ricel Martínez-SierraA validation review of the SAT and ACT for college and university admissions decisions
Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, Zarrina T. Azizova, Norman P. Gibbs, Emeka Ikegwuonu, Jeongeun Kim, Deborah M. La Torre, Matthew R. Lavery, Margarita Pivovarova, Yi ZhengOrchestrating national literacy policies in Brazil: The Union’s role in network governance
Carla Nascimento, Remi CastioniPublic spending and primary school enrollment: An autoregressive distributed lag approach
Parfait Bihkongnyuy Beri, Logan Cochrane, Sarah Syed FazlullahHomeschooling and international documents for the protection of human rights: An analysis of relations and influences in the Brazilian context
Isabela Fernandes Paim Teles, Luciane Muniz Ribeiro BarbosaUndocumented students’ uneven access to financial aid resources: How existing resources reinforce deservingness
Daysi X. Diaz-Strong, Dennise G. Moreno“There’s something ennobling…about struggling”: State policymakers’ framing of deservingness in the New Mexico Opportunity Scholarship
Meredith S. Billings, Paul G. Rubin, Denisa GándaraThe challenges of decentralization in school governance: Lessons learned from the Comprehensive Millennium Schools Program in Ecuador
Juan David Parra, Maria José Ruiz-Rivera, Fausto Alejandro Tingo, María Angeles CevallosGroup works, individual grades: Conflict, trust and rationalization of effort among university students
Enrique Martín-Criado, Carlos Alonso-CarmonaProfessional capital of primary school teachers: An analysis from their professional careers
Héctor Miguel Sánchez-Anguiano, Graciela Cordero-ArroyoFleeing school choice? Resident student exit from suburban school districts
Sarah Winchell Lenhoff, Ben Pogodzinski, Kate Rollert French, Walter CookMulti-criteria analysis of optimal educational teacher allocation system
Konstantinos Gavriil, Ioannis GiannikosTeacher identity and self-formation in the Bilingual-Intercultural Normal Schools of Oaxaca
Ibet Sosa-Bautista; Cecilia NaviaEducational policies of the extreme right in Europe: The formation of an Ultra-Right International in Education through a common agenda?
Enrique-Javier Díez-Gutiérrez, Mauro-Rafael Jarquín-RamírezEffects of early AP coursetaking on high school outcomes and college enrollment for less academically prepared students
Han Bum Lee, Sofia Bahena, Sharon L. NicholsStandardized literacy assessment for young people and adults: An exploratory study
Gladys Rocha, Raquel Márcia Fontes Martins, Mauro José da SilvaLocal education governance and policy transfer in early childhood within Latin America and the Caribbean
Camila Maria Bortot, Elisangela Alves da Silva ScaffMapping the community school policy network using Twitter data and social network analysis
Linda K. Mayger, Kathleen Provinzano
Education Privatization and Commercialization in the Context and Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic
A network policy analysis of England’s National Tutoring Programme: COVID-19 and the embedding of the private sector in state governance
Bronwen M. A. Jones, Patrick L. J. Bailey, Alice BradburyPublic and private actors and educational policy implementation networks during the COVID-19 pandemic: The experience of Minas Gerais/Brazil
Jianne Ines Fialho Coelho, Breynner Ricardo Oliveira, Fernanda Natasha Bravo Cruz, Doriana Daroit
Transforming School Systems: Questions of Power, Resistance, Equity, and Community
When equity leadership keeps white leaders in control: A whiteness as property analysis of district equity work
Jason D. Salisbury, Lakrista L. CummingsSchool-based racial equity collaborations: White principals implementing an active anti-racist stance
Lindsey J. Kaiser, David Goldenkranz, Heather K. Lechner, Patricia Burgess, Trish Millines DzikoContextualizing education reform: How urban school districts design equity-focused leadership pathways
April Peters, Joshua Childs, Ain Grooms, Eligio Martinez Jr.
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