| Keep Safe, Keep Learning: Principals' Role in Creating Psychological Safety and Organizational Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic J Weiner, C Francois, C Stone-Johnson, J Childs Frontiers in Education 5, 282, 2021 | 150 | 2021 |
| “We Need to Do Better by Kids”: Changing Routines in US Schools in Response to COVID-19 School Closures AA Grooms, J Childs Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk (JESPAR) 26 (2), 135-156, 2021 | 113 | 2021 |
| Designing inter-organizational networks to implement education reform: An analysis of state Race to the Top applications JL Russell, J Meredith, J Childs, MK Stein, DW Prine Educational evaluation and policy analysis 37 (1), 92-112, 2015 | 103 | 2015 |
| Improving school attendance through collaboration: A catalyst for community involvement and change J Childs, AA Grooms Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk (JESPAR) 23 (1-2), 122-138, 2018 | 97 | 2018 |
| A multi-tiered systems of support blueprint for re-opening schools following COVID-19 shutdown CA Kearney, J Childs Children and Youth Services Review 122, 105919, 2021 | 82 | 2021 |
| Masking attendance: How education policy distracts from the wicked problem (s) of chronic absenteeism J Childs, R Lofton Educational Policy 35 (2), 213-234, 2021 | 80 | 2021 |
| Improving low-achieving schools: Building state capacity to support school improvement through Race to the Top J Childs, JL Russell Urban Education 52 (2), 236-266, 2017 | 69 | 2017 |
| Preparing leaders for wicked problems? How the revised PSEL and NELP standards address equity and justice AN Farley, J Childs, O Johnson education policy analysis archives 27, 115, 2019 | 54 | 2019 |
| Signal and symbol: How state and local policies address data-informed practice JB Jimerson, J Childs Educational Policy 31 (5), 584-614, 2017 | 25 | 2017 |
| Coordinating the Mesosystem: An Ecological Approach to Addressing Chronic Absenteeism J Childs, CL Scanlon Peabody Journal of Education 97 (1), 74-86, 2022 | 23 | 2022 |
| More than meets the eye: Rural principal turnover and job-embeddedness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic DE DeMatthews, J Childs, D Knight, P Cruz, K Clarida Leadership and Policy in Schools 22 (4), 905-928, 2023 | 22 | 2023 |
| Social forces, social justice, and school attendance problems in youth CA Kearney, J Childs, S Burke Contemporary School Psychology 27 (1), 136-151, 2023 | 21 | 2023 |
| What are we saying by saying so little? Mission statements, diversity mission statements, and NCAA programs. G Ortega, ZW Taylor, J Childs Journal of Diversity in Higher Education 15 (3), 392, 2022 | 21 | 2022 |
| Improving school attendance data and defining problematic and chronic school absenteeism: the next stage for educational policies and health-based practices CA Kearney, J Childs Preventing School Failure: Alternative Education for Children and Youth 67 …, 2023 | 18 | 2023 |
| Hidden in (virtual) plain sight: A charter district’s focus on attendance during COVID-19 J Childs, A Grooms, MP Mozley Education and Urban Society 55 (7), 876-893, 2023 | 17 | 2023 |
| Quantifying Disparities in Computing Education: Access, Participation, and Intersectionality JR Warner, J Childs, CL Fletcher, ND Martin, M Kennedy Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science …, 2021 | 17 | 2021 |
| Is bigger, better? Exploring US News graduate education program rankings and internet characteristics ZW Taylor, J Childs, I Bicak, I Alsmadi Interchange 50, 205-219, 2019 | 16 | 2019 |
| Attending to attendance: Why data quality and modeling assumptions matter when using attendance as an outcome SM Dougherty, J Childs Absent from school: Understanding and addressing student absenteeism, 53-66, 2019 | 15 | 2019 |
| US News & World Report Best Colleges rankings: Which institutional metrics contribute to sustained stratification? I Alsmadi, ZW Taylor, J Childs Scientometrics 124 (3), 1851-1869, 2020 | 14 | 2020 |
| Through the Looking Glass: Computer Science Education and the Unintended Consequences of Broadening Participation Policy Efforts R Zarch, S Dunton, J Childs, A Leftwich 2020 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering …, 2020 | 13 | 2020 |
ZW TaylorAssistant Professor @ University of Southern Mississippi; Director @ CHELTVerified email at usm.edu
