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Huriya Jabbar

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ID300155
NAMEHuriya Jabbar
GIVEN NAMESHuriya
FAMILY NAMEJabbar
SIGNATUREJABBAR H
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Texas at Austin
ORCID0000-0002-5496-4863
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS124
AUTHOR COUNT34
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7
  • The Paradox of School Choice? Experimental Evidence on Choice Architecture, Anxiety, and Satisfaction

    Open Access•Sarah Winchell Lenhoff, Huriya Jabbar et al.•ARTICLE•Educational Policy•2026

    School choice policy is often touted as offering more choices to families whose school options are limited by traditional zoning. However, too many options or too much information may create a “paradox of choice,” resulting in anxiety and dissatisfaction. Through a mixed-methods study, including a survey experiment and interviews, we test whether reducing the number of school options or simplifying the information about them reduces parent stress…

  • Researching the Far Right in Education Policy

    Open Access•Huriya Jabbar, Danfeng Soto-Vigil Koon•ARTICLE•Educational Researcher•2026

    In recent years, the far-right movement in education, characterized by anti-critical race theory, anti-LGBTQ+, and anti-woke campaigns and policies, has gathered steam, threatening to roll back hard-won advances in educational justice, including diversity, equity, and inclusion programs; detracking efforts; student success initiatives for Black and Latinx students; culturally responsive curriculum; ethnic studies; and social-emotional learning pr…

  • Racial Homophily in Context: Tie Types and Organizational Composition in Teacher Networks

    Jennifer L Nelson, David Diehl et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Education•2026

    Purpose: Racial homophily—the tendency to form ties with same-race colleagues—is common in workplace networks, including schools. But we know less about how it varies across relationship types and organizational racial composition. We examine racial homophily in teachers’ instructional advice, disciplinary advice, and friendship networks, comparing Black and White teachers in majority-White and majority-Black schools. Research Methods/Approach: U…

  • Frames, Policies and Politics: The Shifting Discourse of School Choice

    Open Access•Julie A Marsh, Hanora Tracy et al.•ARTICLE•American Educational Research…•2026•References: 69

    For decades, school choice has been promoted as a means to enhance educational efficiency and equity. Recently, a growing “parents’ rights” movement has demanded more educational options, seemingly shifting the choice rhetoric. Yet little systematic research has examined these changes and how discourse varies across states. Using framing theory and a longitudinal multiple-case study of Florida, Louisiana, and Michigan—three politically diverse, c…

  • Mama bears in the belly of the beast: Moms for Liberty disinformation campaigns in California

    Danfeng Soto-Vigil Koon, Huriya Jabbar et al.•ARTICLE•Evidence & Policy•2025

    Across the United States, Moms for Liberty (M4L) has used coordinated strategies to spread fear and disinformation to ban books and elect conservative board members aligned with their agenda. However, to date, few empirical studies have systematically examined their tactics, messages and consequences. Additionally, most media and scholarly attention has focused on the activities of M4L in traditionally conservative states. Less studied are the wa…

  • A pilot study of the impact and implementation of an anti-racism program for preschoolers

    Open Access•Huriya Jabbar, Jessica R Toste et al.•ARTICLE•Early Childhood Research Quarterly•2025•References: 4

  • Accountability Battle: A Critical Analysis of a Charter Renewal Decision

    Open Access•Taylor Enoch-Stevens, Eupha Jeanne Daramola et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Education•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 73

    Charter school policy represents two simultaneous forms of accountability, in which schools are accountable to both parents and authorizers. This study of a K-8 charter renewal decision interrogates these accountability relationships and the role of race and power in privileging the interests of particular stakeholders over others. Using counternarrative methodology and qualitative interviews and observations, we draw on critical race theory and …

  • Money matters: How social class shapes students’ understandings of financing their education

    Open Access•Saralyn Mckinnon-Crowley, Ashli Duncan-Buchanan et al.•ARTICLE•Education Policy Analysis Archives•2023

    Higher education is increasingly expensive, and access disparities by race and social class exist. Yet, we lack nuance in the scholarly literature about students’ understandings of how they finance their college education. We examine how class-based differences influence how students finance college education. We draw on concepts from economic sociology and sensemaking to examine how class backgrounds shape students’ meaning-making of finance and…

  • Durability and debate: How state-level policy actors frame school choice

    Open Access•Eupha Jeanne Daramola, Taylor N Allbright et al.•ARTICLE•Education Policy Analysis Archives•2023

    School choice policies have become a prominent feature of K-12 education in recent decades, reflecting the broader institutionalization of market-based political ideology in education. In this qualitative multiple case study, we draw on framing theory and interviews with 57 state-level education policy actors to explore the nature of the continued debate over school choice in five U.S. states. We find five patterns of framing choice as beneficial…

  • School choice, teachers’ work, and professional identity

    Open Access•Andrene Castro, Andrene J Castro et al.•ARTICLE•Education Policy Analysis Archives•2022

    Teacher professional identity, or what it means to be a teacher, informs the types of schools teachers seek for work. With the marketization of schools in the US and abroad, teachers’ professional identities are changing. However, we know little about how teachers negotiate—and renegotiate—their professional identities during the job search in contexts with school choice, such as charter schools. This study uses qualitative interview data from 46…

  • Economic Imperialism in Education Research: A Conceptual Review

    Open Access•Huriya Jabbar, Francine Menashy•ARTICLE•Educational Researcher•2022

    In this review, we explore economic imperialism, a concept that captures the phenomenon of a single discipline’s power over so many facets of social life and policy—including education. Through a systematic search, we examine how economic imperialism has been conceptualized and applied across fields. We uncovered three key, interconnected elements of economic imperialism that hold relevance for education research. First, economics has colonized o…

  • Social Construction Is Racial Construction: Examining the Target Populations in School-Choice Policies

    Huriya Jabbar, Eupha Jeanne Daramola et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Education•2022•Cited by: 7•References: 51

    Our work demonstrates how racialized social constructions matter for equity in school-choice policy, with implications for local, state, and federal policy and for future research

  • The Age of Satisficing? Juggling Work, Education, and Competing Priorities during the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open Access•Lauren Schudde, Sherri Castillo et al.•ARTICLE•Socius Sociological Research for…•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 8

    The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic continues to shape individuals’ decisions about employment and postsecondary education. The authors leverage data from a longitudinal qualitative study of educational trajectories to examine how individuals responded to the shifting landscape of work and education. In the final wave of interviews with 56 individuals who started their postsecondary education at a community college 6 years ago, the authors foun…

  • Understanding Charter School Leaders’ Perceptions of Competition in Arizona

    Open Access•Benjamin Creed, Huriya Jabbar et al.•ARTICLE•Educational Administration…•2021

    Purpose: School choice policies are expected to generate competition leading to improvement in school practices. However, little is known about how competition operates in public education—particularly in charter schools. This paper examines charter-school leaders’ competitive perception formation and the actions taken in response to competition. Research Methods: Using Arizona charter-school leaders’ responses to an original survey, Arizona Depa…

  • Bridges or Barriers? How Interactions between Individuals and Institutions Condition Community College Transfer

    Huriya Jabbar, Lauren Schudde et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Higher Education•2021•Cited by: 6•References: 42

    Institutional practices and conditions at community colleges can improve rates of transfer, as can access to transfer student capital. However, we know little about how institutions attempt to build students' transfer capital, or about students' experiences within community colleges as they accumulate transfer capital. In this paper, we examine how students' institutional experiences, particularly their engagement with student supports at communi…

  • Students’ Sense Making of Higher Education Policies During the Vertical Transfer Process

    Open Access•Lauren Schudde, Huriya Jabbar et al.•ARTICLE•American Educational Research…•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 39

    More than a third of students enter higher education at a community college; most aim to earn a baccalaureate. Drawing on sense-making theory and longitudinal qualitative data, we examined how community college students interpret state transfer policies and how their interpretations influence subsequent behavior. Data from 3 years of interviews revealed how students adjudicate between multiple intersecting policies. The higher education context, …

  • How Political and Ecological Contexts Shape Community College Transfer

    Open Access•Lauren Schudde, Huriya Jabbar et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Education•2021•Cited by: 7•References: 10

    Broad higher education contexts shape how community college students and postsecondary personnel approach transfer from community colleges to baccalaureate-granting institutions. We leverage the concept of strategic action fields, an organizational theory illuminating processes that play out as actors determine 'who gets what' in an existing power structure, to understand the role of political-ecological contexts in 'vertical' transfer. Drawing o…

  • Choice, Competition, and Cognition: How Arizona Charter School Leaders Interpret and Respond to Market Pressures

    Huriya Jabbar, Benjamin Creed•ARTICLE•Peabody Journal of Education•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 33

    A key goal of school choice policies is to generate competition between schools, which should theoretically drive school leaders to improve their programs to attract and retain students. However, few studies examine how principals actually perceive and define competition. This article empirically examines school leaders' conceptions of competition and their strategic behaviors using cognitive frameworks from new institutional theory, including se…

  • Poor Choices: The Sociopolitical Context of “Grand Theft Education”

    Open Access•Leah Faw, Huriya Jabbar•ARTICLE•Urban Education•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 29

    In recent years, districts have paid special attention to the common practice of “district hopping,” families bending geographic school assignment rules by sending a child to a school in a district where the child does not formally reside—usually to a district that is more desirable because of higher performing schools or greater educational resources. In several high-profile cases, mothers who engaged in district hopping were charged with “grand…

  • It’s Who You Know: The Role of Social Networks in a Changing Labor Market

    Open Access•Huriya Jabbar, Marisa Cannata et al.•ARTICLE•American Educational Research…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 79

    Teacher labor markets are evolving across the United States. The rise of charter schools, alternative teacher certification, and portfolio districts are transforming teachers’ access to employment, changing the way they search for and apply for jobs, and may also change the role that social networks play in the job search. However, we know little about how teachers use their networks to find jobs, particularly in increasingly fragmented local lab…

  • The Push and Pull of School Performance: Evidence from Student Mobility in New Orleans

    Marouli, Spiro Maroulis et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Education•2019•Cited by: 3•References: 45

    We investigate student mobility in a choice-based system that has gone to scale, New Orleans, to gain insight into an underlying improvement mechanism of choice-based reform and its potential equity-related consequences. In contrast to typical analyses of mobility, this study distinguishes incumbent school characteristics that can cause students to search for a new school ("push" factors) from those features that can draw families to a new school…

  • Ijed special issue: Network analysis, education policy, and international development

    Open Access•Huriya Jabbar•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2018

  • Rethinking Teacher Turnover: Longitudinal Measures of Instability in Schools

    Open Access•Jennifer Jellison Holme, Huriya Jabbar et al.•ARTICLE•Educational Researcher•2018•Cited by: 15•References: 31

    While there is a robust literature examining the patterns and causes of teacher turnover, few articles to date have critically examined the measures of turnover used in these studies. Yet, an assessment of the way turnover is measured is important, as the measures become the means by which the “problem” of turnover becomes defined and its varying dimensions understood. In this conceptual essay, we outline a typology of teacher turnover measures, …

  • Échale ganas ”: Family support of Latino/a community college students’ transfer to four-year universities

    Huriya Jabbar, Carmen Serrata et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Latinos and Education•2017•Cited by: 10•References: 11

    Families play a key role in students' school choices throughout their education. While research has explored the familial supports for high-school students transitioning to college for the first time, few scholars have examined how family engagement influences the decisions of current community-college students seeking to transfer to four-year universities. We explore how Latino communitycollege students' social ties to family played a role in th…

  • Getting from Here to There: The Role of Geography in Community College Students’ Transfer Decisions

    Open Access•Huriya Jabbar, Joanna Sanchez et al.•ARTICLE•The Urban Review•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 63

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  • Selling Schools: Marketing and Recruitment Strategies in New Orleans

    Huriya Jabbar•ARTICLE•Peabody Journal of Education•2016•Cited by: 19•References: 41

    Under new school-choice policies, schools feel increasing pressure to market their schools to parents and students. I examine how school leaders in New Orleans used different marketing strategies based on their positions in the market hierarchy and the ways in which they used formal and informal processes to recruit students. This study relied on qualitative interviews, observations of board meetings, and board-meeting minutes from a random sampl…

  • Rethinking Teacher Turnover: Longitudinal Measures of Instability in Schools

    Open Access•Jennifer Jellison Holme, Huriya Jabbar et al.•ARTICLE•Educational Researcher•2018•Cited by: 15•References: 31

    While there is a robust literature examining the patterns and causes of teacher turnover, few articles to date have critically examined the measures of turnover used in these studies. Yet, an assessment of the way turnover is measured is important, as the measures become the means by which the “problem” of turnover becomes defined and its varying dimensions understood. In this conceptual essay, we outline a typology of teacher turnover measures, …

  • Competitive Networks and School Leaders’ Perceptions: The Formation of an Education Marketplace in Post-Katrina New Orleans

    Open Access•Huriya Jabbar•ARTICLE•American Educational Research…•2015•Cited by: 11•References: 43

    School choice policies are often based on the idea that competition will generate better outcomes for all students. Yet there is limited empirical research about how school leaders actually perceive competition and whom they view as rivals. Drawing on concepts from economic sociology, I study principals’ competitive networks and the sets of schools they view as rivals, and I use network and statistical analysis to explore factors that explain the…

  • Échale ganas ”: Family support of Latino/a community college students’ transfer to four-year universities

    Huriya Jabbar, Carmen Serrata et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Latinos and Education•2017•Cited by: 10•References: 11

    Families play a key role in students' school choices throughout their education. While research has explored the familial supports for high-school students transitioning to college for the first time, few scholars have examined how family engagement influences the decisions of current community-college students seeking to transfer to four-year universities. We explore how Latino communitycollege students' social ties to family played a role in th…

  • Between Structure and Agency: Contextualizing School Leaders’ Strategic Responses to Market Pressures

    Huriya Jabbar•ARTICLE•American Journal of Education•2016•Cited by: 9•References: 25

    School choice is expected to place pressure on schools to improve to attract and retain students. However, little research has examined how competition for students actually operates in socially embedded education markets. Economic approaches tend to emphasize individual actors’ choices and agency, an undersocialized perspective, whereas sociological approaches emphasize social structures such as race, class, and institutions over agency, an over…

  • Drenched in the past: ’ The evolution of market-oriented reforms in New Orleans

    Huriya Jabbar•ARTICLE•Journal of Education Policy•2015•Cited by: 8•References: 25

    As the city with the largest charter-school market share in the United States, New Orleans, Louisiana exemplifies market-oriented models in education. For a city that is so ‘drenched in the past,’ the reform movement in New Orleans typically neglects historical context, often dismissing the education system pre-Katrina as simply corrupt and dysfunctional. This is an incomplete story. While national narratives and news media tend to downplay these…

  • The Behavioral Economics of Education: New Directions for Research

    Open Access•Huriya Jabbar•ARTICLE•Educational Researcher•2011•Cited by: 8•References: 64

    Over the past several decades, researchers have used economics to understand a number of issues in education policy. This article argues that some education researchers have defined economics too narrowly, neglecting several areas of economics research that cut across disciplinary boundaries. One subdiscipline of economics that might be of use in education, but which has not been applied much to it, is behavioral economics, which incorporates psy…

  • Social Construction Is Racial Construction: Examining the Target Populations in School-Choice Policies

    Huriya Jabbar, Eupha Jeanne Daramola et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Education•2022•Cited by: 7•References: 51

    Our work demonstrates how racialized social constructions matter for equity in school-choice policy, with implications for local, state, and federal policy and for future research

  • How Political and Ecological Contexts Shape Community College Transfer

    Open Access•Lauren Schudde, Huriya Jabbar et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Education•2021•Cited by: 7•References: 10

    Broad higher education contexts shape how community college students and postsecondary personnel approach transfer from community colleges to baccalaureate-granting institutions. We leverage the concept of strategic action fields, an organizational theory illuminating processes that play out as actors determine 'who gets what' in an existing power structure, to understand the role of political-ecological contexts in 'vertical' transfer. Drawing o…

  • Bridges or Barriers? How Interactions between Individuals and Institutions Condition Community College Transfer

    Huriya Jabbar, Lauren Schudde et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Higher Education•2021•Cited by: 6•References: 42

    Institutional practices and conditions at community colleges can improve rates of transfer, as can access to transfer student capital. However, we know little about how institutions attempt to build students' transfer capital, or about students' experiences within community colleges as they accumulate transfer capital. In this paper, we examine how students' institutional experiences, particularly their engagement with student supports at communi…

  • Students’ Sense Making of Higher Education Policies During the Vertical Transfer Process

    Open Access•Lauren Schudde, Huriya Jabbar et al.•ARTICLE•American Educational Research…•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 39

    More than a third of students enter higher education at a community college; most aim to earn a baccalaureate. Drawing on sense-making theory and longitudinal qualitative data, we examined how community college students interpret state transfer policies and how their interpretations influence subsequent behavior. Data from 3 years of interviews revealed how students adjudicate between multiple intersecting policies. The higher education context, …

  • Race and School Vouchers: Legal, Historical, and Political Contexts

    Mark A Gooden, Huriya Jabbar et al.•ARTICLE•Peabody Journal of Education•2016•Cited by: 4•References: 23

    This article investigates legal and political issues as they relate to school vouchers serving students of color. Specifically, we draw on the empirical, historical, and legal research to examine whether school vouchers will create a more equitable system of education for poor students of color. First, we present a history of vouchers, including how they were used to support segregation. We then discuss how vouchers as a broad opportunity for edu…

  • Poor Choices: The Sociopolitical Context of “Grand Theft Education”

    Open Access•Leah Faw, Huriya Jabbar•ARTICLE•Urban Education•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 29

    In recent years, districts have paid special attention to the common practice of “district hopping,” families bending geographic school assignment rules by sending a child to a school in a district where the child does not formally reside—usually to a district that is more desirable because of higher performing schools or greater educational resources. In several high-profile cases, mothers who engaged in district hopping were charged with “grand…

  • It’s Who You Know: The Role of Social Networks in a Changing Labor Market

    Open Access•Huriya Jabbar, Marisa Cannata et al.•ARTICLE•American Educational Research…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 79

    Teacher labor markets are evolving across the United States. The rise of charter schools, alternative teacher certification, and portfolio districts are transforming teachers’ access to employment, changing the way they search for and apply for jobs, and may also change the role that social networks play in the job search. However, we know little about how teachers use their networks to find jobs, particularly in increasingly fragmented local lab…

  • The Push and Pull of School Performance: Evidence from Student Mobility in New Orleans

    Marouli, Spiro Maroulis et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Education•2019•Cited by: 3•References: 45

    We investigate student mobility in a choice-based system that has gone to scale, New Orleans, to gain insight into an underlying improvement mechanism of choice-based reform and its potential equity-related consequences. In contrast to typical analyses of mobility, this study distinguishes incumbent school characteristics that can cause students to search for a new school ("push" factors) from those features that can draw families to a new school…

  • The Age of Satisficing? Juggling Work, Education, and Competing Priorities during the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open Access•Lauren Schudde, Sherri Castillo et al.•ARTICLE•Socius Sociological Research for…•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 8

    The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic continues to shape individuals’ decisions about employment and postsecondary education. The authors leverage data from a longitudinal qualitative study of educational trajectories to examine how individuals responded to the shifting landscape of work and education. In the final wave of interviews with 56 individuals who started their postsecondary education at a community college 6 years ago, the authors foun…

  • Accountability Battle: A Critical Analysis of a Charter Renewal Decision

    Open Access•Taylor Enoch-Stevens, Eupha Jeanne Daramola et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Education•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 73

    Charter school policy represents two simultaneous forms of accountability, in which schools are accountable to both parents and authorizers. This study of a K-8 charter renewal decision interrogates these accountability relationships and the role of race and power in privileging the interests of particular stakeholders over others. Using counternarrative methodology and qualitative interviews and observations, we draw on critical race theory and …

  • Choice, Competition, and Cognition: How Arizona Charter School Leaders Interpret and Respond to Market Pressures

    Huriya Jabbar, Benjamin Creed•ARTICLE•Peabody Journal of Education•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 33

    A key goal of school choice policies is to generate competition between schools, which should theoretically drive school leaders to improve their programs to attract and retain students. However, few studies examine how principals actually perceive and define competition. This article empirically examines school leaders' conceptions of competition and their strategic behaviors using cognitive frameworks from new institutional theory, including se…

  • Getting from Here to There: The Role of Geography in Community College Students’ Transfer Decisions

    Open Access•Huriya Jabbar, Joanna Sanchez et al.•ARTICLE•The Urban Review•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 63

  • The case of ‘payment-by-results’: Re-examining the effects of an incentive programme in nineteenth-century English schools

    Huriya Jabbar•ARTICLE•Journal of Educational…•2013•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    Performance-based management is a recurring and controversial strategy for education reform. This paper examines a nineteenth-century English experiment in paying schools by results and uses concepts from personnel and behavioural economics to understand its decline. Like many recent education reforms, payment-by-results sought to bring schools and teachers under the ‘laws of supply and demand’. The unintended outcomes of the policy, which ultima…

  • The Behavioral Economics of Education: New Directions for Research

    Open Access•Huriya Jabbar•ARTICLE•Educational Researcher•2011•Cited by: 8•References: 64

    Over the past several decades, researchers have used economics to understand a number of issues in education policy. This article argues that some education researchers have defined economics too narrowly, neglecting several areas of economics research that cut across disciplinary boundaries. One subdiscipline of economics that might be of use in education, but which has not been applied much to it, is behavioral economics, which incorporates psy…

  • The case of ‘payment-by-results’: Re-examining the effects of an incentive programme in nineteenth-century English schools

    Huriya Jabbar•ARTICLE•Journal of Educational…•2013•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    Performance-based management is a recurring and controversial strategy for education reform. This paper examines a nineteenth-century English experiment in paying schools by results and uses concepts from personnel and behavioural economics to understand its decline. Like many recent education reforms, payment-by-results sought to bring schools and teachers under the ‘laws of supply and demand’. The unintended outcomes of the policy, which ultima…

  • The Hub and the Spokes: Foundations, Intermediary Organizations, Incentivist Reforms, and the Politics of Research Evidence

    Open Access•Janelle Scott, Huriya Jabbar•ARTICLE•Educational Policy•2014

    The rise in the influence of and spending by educational philanthropists and foundations over the past two decades, especially in the area of market-based reforms, such as charter schools, vouchers, and merit pay, is evident across the United States. Largely due to philanthropic investments, relatively new educational intermediary organizations (IOs) have also been growing in size, scope, and influence. These new IOs have sought to implement mark…

  • “Every Kid Is Money”: Market-Like Competition and School Leader Strategies in New Orleans

    Open Access•Huriya Jabbar•ARTICLE•Educational Evaluation and Policy…•2015

    One of the primary aims of choice policies is to introduce competition between schools. When parents can choose where to send their children, there is pressure on schools to improve to attract and retain students. However, do school leaders recognize market pressures? What strategies do they use in response? This study examines how choice creates school-level actions using qualitative data from 30 schools in New Orleans. Findings suggest that sch…

  • Drenched in the past: ’ The evolution of market-oriented reforms in New Orleans

    Huriya Jabbar•ARTICLE•Journal of Education Policy•2015•Cited by: 8•References: 25

    As the city with the largest charter-school market share in the United States, New Orleans, Louisiana exemplifies market-oriented models in education. For a city that is so ‘drenched in the past,’ the reform movement in New Orleans typically neglects historical context, often dismissing the education system pre-Katrina as simply corrupt and dysfunctional. This is an incomplete story. While national narratives and news media tend to downplay these…

  • Competitive Networks and School Leaders’ Perceptions: The Formation of an Education Marketplace in Post-Katrina New Orleans

    Open Access•Huriya Jabbar•ARTICLE•American Educational Research…•2015•Cited by: 11•References: 43

    School choice policies are often based on the idea that competition will generate better outcomes for all students. Yet there is limited empirical research about how school leaders actually perceive competition and whom they view as rivals. Drawing on concepts from economic sociology, I study principals’ competitive networks and the sets of schools they view as rivals, and I use network and statistical analysis to explore factors that explain the…

  • Between Structure and Agency: Contextualizing School Leaders’ Strategic Responses to Market Pressures

    Huriya Jabbar•ARTICLE•American Journal of Education•2016•Cited by: 9•References: 25

    School choice is expected to place pressure on schools to improve to attract and retain students. However, little research has examined how competition for students actually operates in socially embedded education markets. Economic approaches tend to emphasize individual actors’ choices and agency, an undersocialized perspective, whereas sociological approaches emphasize social structures such as race, class, and institutions over agency, an over…

  • Race and School Vouchers: Legal, Historical, and Political Contexts

    Mark A Gooden, Huriya Jabbar et al.•ARTICLE•Peabody Journal of Education•2016•Cited by: 4•References: 23

    This article investigates legal and political issues as they relate to school vouchers serving students of color. Specifically, we draw on the empirical, historical, and legal research to examine whether school vouchers will create a more equitable system of education for poor students of color. First, we present a history of vouchers, including how they were used to support segregation. We then discuss how vouchers as a broad opportunity for edu…

  • Selling Schools: Marketing and Recruitment Strategies in New Orleans

    Huriya Jabbar•ARTICLE•Peabody Journal of Education•2016•Cited by: 19•References: 41

    Under new school-choice policies, schools feel increasing pressure to market their schools to parents and students. I examine how school leaders in New Orleans used different marketing strategies based on their positions in the market hierarchy and the ways in which they used formal and informal processes to recruit students. This study relied on qualitative interviews, observations of board meetings, and board-meeting minutes from a random sampl…

  • Échale ganas ”: Family support of Latino/a community college students’ transfer to four-year universities

    Huriya Jabbar, Carmen Serrata et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Latinos and Education•2017•Cited by: 10•References: 11

    Families play a key role in students' school choices throughout their education. While research has explored the familial supports for high-school students transitioning to college for the first time, few scholars have examined how family engagement influences the decisions of current community-college students seeking to transfer to four-year universities. We explore how Latino communitycollege students' social ties to family played a role in th…

  • Getting from Here to There: The Role of Geography in Community College Students’ Transfer Decisions

    Open Access•Huriya Jabbar, Joanna Sanchez et al.•ARTICLE•The Urban Review•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 63

  • Ijed special issue: Network analysis, education policy, and international development

    Open Access•Huriya Jabbar•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2018

  • Rethinking Teacher Turnover: Longitudinal Measures of Instability in Schools

    Open Access•Jennifer Jellison Holme, Huriya Jabbar et al.•ARTICLE•Educational Researcher•2018•Cited by: 15•References: 31

    While there is a robust literature examining the patterns and causes of teacher turnover, few articles to date have critically examined the measures of turnover used in these studies. Yet, an assessment of the way turnover is measured is important, as the measures become the means by which the “problem” of turnover becomes defined and its varying dimensions understood. In this conceptual essay, we outline a typology of teacher turnover measures, …

  • The Push and Pull of School Performance: Evidence from Student Mobility in New Orleans

    Marouli, Spiro Maroulis et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Education•2019•Cited by: 3•References: 45

    We investigate student mobility in a choice-based system that has gone to scale, New Orleans, to gain insight into an underlying improvement mechanism of choice-based reform and its potential equity-related consequences. In contrast to typical analyses of mobility, this study distinguishes incumbent school characteristics that can cause students to search for a new school ("push" factors) from those features that can draw families to a new school…

  • Choice, Competition, and Cognition: How Arizona Charter School Leaders Interpret and Respond to Market Pressures

    Huriya Jabbar, Benjamin Creed•ARTICLE•Peabody Journal of Education•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 33

    A key goal of school choice policies is to generate competition between schools, which should theoretically drive school leaders to improve their programs to attract and retain students. However, few studies examine how principals actually perceive and define competition. This article empirically examines school leaders' conceptions of competition and their strategic behaviors using cognitive frameworks from new institutional theory, including se…

  • Poor Choices: The Sociopolitical Context of “Grand Theft Education”

    Open Access•Leah Faw, Huriya Jabbar•ARTICLE•Urban Education•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 29

    In recent years, districts have paid special attention to the common practice of “district hopping,” families bending geographic school assignment rules by sending a child to a school in a district where the child does not formally reside—usually to a district that is more desirable because of higher performing schools or greater educational resources. In several high-profile cases, mothers who engaged in district hopping were charged with “grand…

  • It’s Who You Know: The Role of Social Networks in a Changing Labor Market

    Open Access•Huriya Jabbar, Marisa Cannata et al.•ARTICLE•American Educational Research…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 79

    Teacher labor markets are evolving across the United States. The rise of charter schools, alternative teacher certification, and portfolio districts are transforming teachers’ access to employment, changing the way they search for and apply for jobs, and may also change the role that social networks play in the job search. However, we know little about how teachers use their networks to find jobs, particularly in increasingly fragmented local lab…

  • Understanding Charter School Leaders’ Perceptions of Competition in Arizona

    Open Access•Benjamin Creed, Huriya Jabbar et al.•ARTICLE•Educational Administration…•2021

    Purpose: School choice policies are expected to generate competition leading to improvement in school practices. However, little is known about how competition operates in public education—particularly in charter schools. This paper examines charter-school leaders’ competitive perception formation and the actions taken in response to competition. Research Methods: Using Arizona charter-school leaders’ responses to an original survey, Arizona Depa…

  • Bridges or Barriers? How Interactions between Individuals and Institutions Condition Community College Transfer

    Huriya Jabbar, Lauren Schudde et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Higher Education•2021•Cited by: 6•References: 42

    Institutional practices and conditions at community colleges can improve rates of transfer, as can access to transfer student capital. However, we know little about how institutions attempt to build students' transfer capital, or about students' experiences within community colleges as they accumulate transfer capital. In this paper, we examine how students' institutional experiences, particularly their engagement with student supports at communi…

  • Students’ Sense Making of Higher Education Policies During the Vertical Transfer Process

    Open Access•Lauren Schudde, Huriya Jabbar et al.•ARTICLE•American Educational Research…•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 39

    More than a third of students enter higher education at a community college; most aim to earn a baccalaureate. Drawing on sense-making theory and longitudinal qualitative data, we examined how community college students interpret state transfer policies and how their interpretations influence subsequent behavior. Data from 3 years of interviews revealed how students adjudicate between multiple intersecting policies. The higher education context, …

  • How Political and Ecological Contexts Shape Community College Transfer

    Open Access•Lauren Schudde, Huriya Jabbar et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Education•2021•Cited by: 7•References: 10

    Broad higher education contexts shape how community college students and postsecondary personnel approach transfer from community colleges to baccalaureate-granting institutions. We leverage the concept of strategic action fields, an organizational theory illuminating processes that play out as actors determine 'who gets what' in an existing power structure, to understand the role of political-ecological contexts in 'vertical' transfer. Drawing o…

  • School choice, teachers’ work, and professional identity

    Open Access•Andrene Castro, Andrene J Castro et al.•ARTICLE•Education Policy Analysis Archives•2022

    Teacher professional identity, or what it means to be a teacher, informs the types of schools teachers seek for work. With the marketization of schools in the US and abroad, teachers’ professional identities are changing. However, we know little about how teachers negotiate—and renegotiate—their professional identities during the job search in contexts with school choice, such as charter schools. This study uses qualitative interview data from 46…

  • Economic Imperialism in Education Research: A Conceptual Review

    Open Access•Huriya Jabbar, Francine Menashy•ARTICLE•Educational Researcher•2022

    In this review, we explore economic imperialism, a concept that captures the phenomenon of a single discipline’s power over so many facets of social life and policy—including education. Through a systematic search, we examine how economic imperialism has been conceptualized and applied across fields. We uncovered three key, interconnected elements of economic imperialism that hold relevance for education research. First, economics has colonized o…

  • Social Construction Is Racial Construction: Examining the Target Populations in School-Choice Policies

    Huriya Jabbar, Eupha Jeanne Daramola et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Education•2022•Cited by: 7•References: 51

    Our work demonstrates how racialized social constructions matter for equity in school-choice policy, with implications for local, state, and federal policy and for future research

  • The Age of Satisficing? Juggling Work, Education, and Competing Priorities during the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open Access•Lauren Schudde, Sherri Castillo et al.•ARTICLE•Socius Sociological Research for…•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 8

    The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic continues to shape individuals’ decisions about employment and postsecondary education. The authors leverage data from a longitudinal qualitative study of educational trajectories to examine how individuals responded to the shifting landscape of work and education. In the final wave of interviews with 56 individuals who started their postsecondary education at a community college 6 years ago, the authors foun…

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