Many education policy researchers have turned to critical policy analysis as a means to
better understand and examine injustices in education and beyond. However, such work is …

The special issue documents the conceptual, empirical, and political progress that critical
policy analysis in education has made. The contributions build on and employ the tools that …

Critical education policy research has a deep-rooted history, evolving over four decades to
challenge traditional positivist approaches. Reimagining epistemology, theory, and …

Drawing on the special issue's collection of articles, the following commentary examines the
racial biases in K-12 and higher education policies and products revealing their seemingly …

Latinx students are less likely to be recruited by colleges across various “high-touch”
practices like high school visits and mailers. Given such exclusionary patterns, this study …

The US Department of Education uses heightened cash monitoring (HCM) and financial
responsibility metrics as two tools to identify colleges that require additional federal …

The math intervention program, Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces (ALEKS),
at a Public Middle School (pseudonym) in the Northeast United States, was implemented for …

This dissertation examines how first-generation high school Students of Color from
California's San Joaquin Valley navigate digital marketing and advertising during their …