Although the critical research cannon is often associated with qualitative scholars, there is a
growing number of critical scholars who are refusing positivist-informed quantitative …

High-quality systematic literature reviews provide a systematic process for identifying,
synthesizing, and critiquing multiple studies and, in turn, inform theory, research, practice …

Critical race theory (CRT) has been used in educational literature to emphasize the
influence of racism on educational opportunity and the assets of students of color …

This study examined factors contributing to achievement gaps between White and African
American students in 2,868 diverse school districts across the United States. Using pooled …

Guided by Astin's IEO model and critical quantitative inquiry, we examined institutional
environments that contributed to belongingness, especially for students from different racial …

Abstract Representation of diverse groups in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM) fields is a persistent concern in the United States. Although there have …

Background: Positionality captures how the researcher is positioned, personally, socially,
and politically, in relation to the study's context. A researcher's positionality influences each …

In this essay, we advance the Critical Media Effects (CME) framework as a way of bridging
two major subfields of communication that seldom speak to one another: media effects …

Utilizing rich data on nearly 11,000 educators over 17 academic years in a highly diverse
context, we examine the career paths of teachers to determine whether and when they …

A schools' collective social assets (ie, school culture, administrative support, and satisfied
colleagues) are especially important for beginning teachers at higher risk of attrition …