Danfeng Soto-Vigil Koon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3093334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Danfeng Soto-Vigil Koon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Danfeng Soto-Vigil |
| FAMILY NAME | Koon |
| SIGNATURE | KOON D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4646-4295 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Researching the Far Right in Education Policy
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…
Mama bears in the belly of the beast
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…
Racial Capitalism and Student Disposability in an Era of School Discipline Reform
Purpose: Although California school discipline policy changes over the past decade have resulted in significant drops in suspension rates, scholars have found that racial disproportionality in punitive discipline persists for Black, Indigenous, and at times Latinx students. This study utilizes racial capitalism as an analytical framework to examine the mechanisms and justifications for racially disproportionate discipline across three distinct Ca…
Critical education policy network analysis
Education Policy Networks
This study utilizes social network visualization and content analysis of policy reports to explore the changing structure and function of a network of organizations, including government agencies, philanthropies, think tanks, advocacy groups, research centers, and edu-businesses active in school discipline policy formation at the federal level from 2000 to 2014. This study illuminates the mechanism by which the state, working through a complex pu…
Beyond Hierarchies and Markets
The state has experimented with a range of decentralized school organizations over the past half century, in part aiming to lift poor children. This movement stems from not only neoliberal ideology but also from the earlier “Third Way” of advancing public projects—severing local organizing from the state’s bureaucratic rules, while stopping short of atomized market remedies. This article first examines the economic and institutional forces that d…
Education Policy Networks
This study utilizes social network visualization and content analysis of policy reports to explore the changing structure and function of a network of organizations, including government agencies, philanthropies, think tanks, advocacy groups, research centers, and edu-businesses active in school discipline policy formation at the federal level from 2000 to 2014. This study illuminates the mechanism by which the state, working through a complex pu…
Racial Capitalism and Student Disposability in an Era of School Discipline Reform
Purpose: Although California school discipline policy changes over the past decade have resulted in significant drops in suspension rates, scholars have found that racial disproportionality in punitive discipline persists for Black, Indigenous, and at times Latinx students. This study utilizes racial capitalism as an analytical framework to examine the mechanisms and justifications for racially disproportionate discipline across three distinct Ca…
Beyond Hierarchies and Markets
The state has experimented with a range of decentralized school organizations over the past half century, in part aiming to lift poor children. This movement stems from not only neoliberal ideology but also from the earlier “Third Way” of advancing public projects—severing local organizing from the state’s bureaucratic rules, while stopping short of atomized market remedies. This article first examines the economic and institutional forces that d…
Education Policy Networks
This study utilizes social network visualization and content analysis of policy reports to explore the changing structure and function of a network of organizations, including government agencies, philanthropies, think tanks, advocacy groups, research centers, and edu-businesses active in school discipline policy formation at the federal level from 2000 to 2014. This study illuminates the mechanism by which the state, working through a complex pu…
Critical education policy network analysis
Racial Capitalism and Student Disposability in an Era of School Discipline Reform
Purpose: Although California school discipline policy changes over the past decade have resulted in significant drops in suspension rates, scholars have found that racial disproportionality in punitive discipline persists for Black, Indigenous, and at times Latinx students. This study utilizes racial capitalism as an analytical framework to examine the mechanisms and justifications for racially disproportionate discipline across three distinct Ca…
Mama bears in the belly of the beast
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…
Researching the Far Right in Education Policy
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…
Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Education Discipline and Inequality (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Education policy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Policy analysis (2 works)