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How Proximity Shapes Opportunity in Texas
Acton, R. K., Cortes, K. E., Miller, L., & Morales, C. (2026). Distance to Degrees: How Proximity Shapes Opportunity in Texas. ERC Research Brief. Texas A&M University. Education Research Center.
A Randomized Controlled Trial With School Leaders
Bowen, D. H., & Kisida, B. (2026). Valuing the arts: A randomized controlled trial with school leaders. Arts Education Policy Review. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10632913.2026.2633694
Can a Single Email Shape What Students Study?
Edwards, O., & Meer, J. (2026). The Economics of Encouragement: Can a Single Email Shape What Students Study? ERC Research Brief. Texas A&M University Education Research Center.
Effective Components of Teacher Induction Programs
Kwok, A. & KO Macfarlane
An Exploration of Urban Educators’ Motivation During a State Takeover in Texas
Redwine Johnson, V., & Williams III, J. A. (2026). Not Like Us: An Exploration of Urban Educators’ Motivation During a State Takeover in Texas. The Teacher Educator, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/08878730.2026.2640541
Svajda-Hardy, M., & Kwok, A. (2026). Managing Without Mandate: A Nationwide Review of State Training Laws. ERC Research Brief. Texas A&M University Education Research Center.
Williams, J. A., III, Richardson, S. C., & Lewis, C. W. (2026). Into DEEP: Pinpointing and profiling disciplinary excellence and exemplary performance in Texas urban schools. Urban Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420859261433904
Kwok, A., Davis, J., Halabi, S., Waddington, J., Huston, D., & Hemsley, R. (2026). Equity in Practice: How New Teachers Bring Fairness Into the Classroom. ERC Research Brief. Texas A&M University Education Research Center.
Williams, J. A., III, Richardson, S. C., Harrell, D. R., Johnson, V. R., & Burrell-Craft, K. (2026). De-siloing federal data repositories with care: Toward a data integration ethical framework. The Urban Review, 58(19). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11256-025-00801-4
Holzman, B., Chukhray, I., & Thrash, C. (2026). EMERGEing Educational Opportunities: The Effects of Social Capital on Selective College Outcomes. Education Finance and Policy, 21(1), 71–96. https://doi.org/10.1162/edfp.a.19
Bartanen, B., Avitabile, A., & Kwok, A. (2025). Who wants to be a teacher in America? (EdWorkingPaper No. 25-1275). Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED678193
Effective Components of Teacher Induction Programs. Overview Brief # 32
Kwok, A., & Macfarlane, K. O. (2025, February). Strengthening early-career teachers: Effective components of teacher induction programs (Overview Brief No. 32). EdResearch for Action; Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED671234
Kisida, B., Bowen, D. H., Diemer, A., & Frankel, G. (2025). Say Something, Do Something: the impact of participatory theater on preventing and reducing violence and bullying. Arts Education Policy Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/10632913.2025.2476958
Holtz, E., Crawford, A., Sanders, M., Gooden, M., Johnson, V. R., & Turner, M. (2025). Linguistic diversity in a multilingual state: Preservice teachers’ preparedness for working with multilingual learners. Journal of Latinos and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348431.2025.2569586
Nicholas-Hoff, P., & Williams, J. (2025). Got A Match?: How school leaders’ race affects suspension odds among Black students in Texas urban high schools. Urban Education Research & Policy Annuals, 8(1).
Svajda-Hardy, M., & Kwok, A. (2025). Extending culturally responsive classroom management to enhance contemporary classrooms: A conceptual framework. Texas Education Review. https://doi.org/10.26153/tsw/58397
Holzman, B., Chukhray, I., & Thrash, C. (2025) EMERGEing educational opportunities: The effects of social capital on selective college outcomes. Education Finance and Policy. 1-44.
Svajda-Hardy, M., & Kwok, A. (2025). Analyzing state-level training statutes to support classroom and behavior management. Education Finance and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1162/EDFP.a.424
Bartanen, B., Kwok, A., Avitabile, A., & Kim, B. (2024). Why do you want to be a teacher? A natural language processing approach. Educational Researcher. 54(1), 7-20.
Redwine Johnson, V., Williams III, J. A., & Richardson, M. (2024). Towards congruency?: A descriptive analysis of employed Black teachers in Texas from 2011-12 through 2017-18. Texas Education Review, 12(2), 25-42.
Freeman, D. M., & Bowen, D. H. (2024). Investigating equity in art course taking across HISD high schools. Kinder Institute for Urban Research. https://doi.org/10.25611/MDD3-JP55
Kwok, Andrew, Iliana De La Cruz, and Michelle Kwok. (2024). Clinical teaching learning trajectory: Exploring field supervisor written feedback on clinical teacher pedagogy. (EdWorkingPaper: 24-896).
Kwok, A., & Bartanen, B. (2024). Backtalk: Where are the teachers of color? Getting cut out and lured away. Phi Delta Kappan, 106(3), 54-55.
Casellas Connors, I., Unangst, L., & Barone, N. (2023). Supporting displaced students in US higher education: examining institutional policy and practice. Race Ethnicity and Education, 27(4), 519–537.
Bartanen, B., & Kwok, A. (2023). From interest to entry: The teacher pipeline from college application to initial employment. American Educational Research Journal, 60(5), 941-985.
Klasik, D., & Cortes, K. E. (2022). Uniform admissions, unequal access: Did the top 10% plan increase access to selective flagship institutions?. Economics of Education Review, 87, 102199.
Bartanen, B., & Kwok, A. (2021). Examining clinical teaching observation scores as a measure of preservice teacher quality. American Educational Research Journal, 58(5), 887-920.
Holzman, B., Wu, J., Zhang, M., Martinez, M., & Stice, K. (2020). Tracking Eighth Graders’ Post-Secondary Outcomes in Texas. Policy Brief.
Holzman, B., & Hanson, V. S. (2020). Summer Melt and Free Application for Federal Student Aid Verification. Houston Education Research Consortium. Houston, TX: Houston Education Research Consortium, Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University
John Williams III
Cortes, K. E., & Lincove , J. A. (2018). Match or mismatch? Automatic admissions and college preferences of low- and high-income students. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 41(1), 98-123.
Grosskopf, S., Hayes, K., Taylor, L., & Weber, W. L. (2017). Would weighted-student funding enhance intradistrict equity in Texas? A simulation using DEA. The Journal of the Operational Research Society, 68(4), 377–389.
Gronberg, T. J., Jansen, D. W., & Taylor, L. L. (2017). Are charters the best alternative? A cost frontier analysis of alternative education campuses in Texas. Southern Economic Journal, 83(3), 721-743.
Evidence from a Texas Incentive Pay Program
Springer, M.G., & Taylor, L.L. (2016). Designing incentives for public school teachers: Evidence from a Texas incentive pay program. Journal of Education Finance 41(3), 344-381.
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