Odis Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596851 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Odis Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Odis |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6633-3658 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Is doing better science enough?: An autoethnographic study of a multidisciplinary collaboration to measure structural racism
OBJECTIVES: Addressing structural racism remains a critical challenge in population health and social sciences, as traditional quantitative approaches often fail to disrupt long-standing racialized health hierarchies. This study critically interrogates the process of a multidisciplinary scientific collaboration attempting to operationalize and measure life course structural racism while enacting an anti-racist praxis. DESIGN: Utilizing a collabor…
Can Neighborhood Redevelopment Initiatives Improve Educational Outcomes? Novel Evidence From the Choice Neighborhood Initiative
Mixed-income initiatives provide critical investments in neighborhoods, including investments to improve schools, and provide case management and family support services to low-income families. The Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI) is one of the largest and most comprehensive mixed-income neighborhood redevelopment initiatives to date; however, research has yet to examine the CNI’s effect on educational outcomes. We applied a robust differenc…
The 2013 mass public school closure and firearm violence in Chicago: A quasi-experimental difference-in-differences analysis
Cracks in the Foundation: The Association of Physical Condition of School Facilities With Absenteeism and Test Scores in Maryland
BACKGROUND: Poor physical conditions of school facilities are linked to poor health, lower test scores, and higher rates of chronic absenteeism. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis using data on physical conditions of school facilities, absenteeism, and test scores for 1266 K-12 school facilities representing 1388 schools (which may share school facilities) in Maryland. We analyzed the results by race and ethnicity of students and by…
Can Certificate Programs Solve the Skills and Spatial Mismatch Problem? Job Portability and Residential Mobility in a Coding and Apprenticeship Program
Nondegree certificate programs that are free, short, and located in urban areas may pose implications for the skills and spatial match between urban job-seekers and employers. Leveraging a large-scale survey of applicants to a unique technology certificate and apprenticeship program, we apply machine-learning generated propensity score weights, finding that apprenticeship completers were more likely to see a significant reduction in the distance …
Hidden Within the Structure: How Poor School Buildings Further Contribute to Concentrated Debt
This article addresses disparities in school building conditions and repair within the state of Maryland, drawing particular attention to how the state maintenance funding formula systematically disadvantages the Baltimore school system, the state's system with the highest proportion of African American learners. We highlight the profound impacts of school infrastructure on students’ educational experiences and outcomes, particularly attendance a…
Shouldering the labor of school desegregation: Stress and health implications for Black families
Many U.S. Black students and their families seek quality educational opportunities by enrolling in schools far from their residence via school choice or school desegregation initiatives, a primary impetus to school choice programs. Using data drawn from in-depth interviews and surveys with caregivers of Black student participants (n=22) who attended one of the few remaining U.S. school desegregation programs, we characterize families’ day-to-day …
Moving from Hope to Choice: Childhood Inequalities and Mechanisms for Reducing Inequalities Across Mixed-Income Housing and Neighborhood Redevelopment Initiatives
Despite the potential benefits, research has yet to synthesize the impact of mixed-income initiatives on educational opportunities for families. Moreover, the policy intentions of mixed-income initiatives, particularly concerning children's educational opportunities, remain largely untested and lack theoretical and conceptual foregrounding. To fill these knowledge gaps, we critically review the Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere and Choi…
Epistemic Marginalization and Methodology 50 Years after The Death of White Sociology
In its original form, the following essay was the closing keynote address of the annual meeting of the Sociology of Education Association (SEA), held in Monterey, California on February 20, 2023. That year was the 50th anniversary of both the founding of SEA and the publication of the landmark volume, The Death of White Sociology. In commemorating these events and assessing how the field of sociology has changed 50 years later, this essay juxtapo…
National Burden of Injury and Deaths From Shootings by Police in the United States, 2015‒2020
Objectives. To describe all-outcome injurious shootings by police and compare characteristics of fatal versus nonfatal injurious shootings nationally. Methods. From July 2021 to April 2023, we manually reviewed publicly available records on all 2015–2020 injurious shootings by US police, identified from Gun Violence Archive. We estimated injury frequency, case fatality rates, and relative odds of death by incident and victim characteristics. Resu…
Social and policy characteristics associated with injurious shootings by police in US counties: A multilevel analysis, 2015-2020
The Collateral Damage of In-School Suspensions: A Counterfactual Analysis of High-Suspension Schools, Math Achievement and College Attendance
Even the least severe forms of exclusionary discipline are associated with detrimental effects for students that attend schools that overuse them. With a nationally representative longitudinal study of high school students, we utilize propensity score weighting to limit selection bias associated with schools that issue high numbers of in-school suspensions. Accounting for school social order and individual suspensions, we find that high-suspensio…
Suspended While Black in Majority White Schools: Implications for Math Efficacy and Equity
This article explores whether racial disparities in mathematics arise in majority White schools for students who receive in-school suspensions (ISS). Using data from the High School Longitudinal Survey and machine learning generated propensity scores to estimate average treatment effects, we find Black suspended students in schools with low White enrollment have math test scores and efficacy beliefs no different than non-suspended Black students,…
Perceptions of School Quality and Student Learning During the Pandemic: Exploring the Role of Students, Families, Schools, and Neighborhoods
Given the inequitable distribution of resources across school, neighborhood, and home contexts in the United States, lower resourced students may have had fewer opportunities to learn during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, which may have caused previous disadvantages to accumulate during the pandemic. Nevertheless, research has yet to comprehensively explore how school, neighborhood, and home contexts— together—relate to perceptions of sch…
Infrastructure of social control: A multi-level counterfactual analysis of surveillance and Black education
The Process of 'Pushing Out: Accumulated Disadvantage across School Punishment and Math Achievement Trajectories
Students drop out of school for a variety of reasons, yet are 'pushed out' when they exhibit traits that are deemed undesirable to school officials, such as misbehavior and academic failure. While much of the previous research on pushouts views the phenomenon as a discrete occurrence often attributed to either misbehavior or academic failure, we recognize the underlying relationships between punishment and achievement, and therefore conceptualize…
Exogenous Policy, Racial Avoidance, and the Qualified Relevance of Macroeconomic Change to Metropolitan Inequality
Context: The rich contextualization of educational processes brought about in the pioneering work of Jean Anyon pushed scientists to acknowledge that the education being provided to the least advantaged was shaped by factors with origins beyond school and family environments. Political economic work in education has subsequently argued that an unforgiving economy has lessened the educational fortunes of urban residents. Focus of Study: In respons…
Impact of In-School Suspension on Black Girls’ Math Course-Taking in High School
Black girls are more likely to receive in-school suspension (ISS) in comparison to their non-Black peers. However, research on the effect of in-school suspension on students’ academic achievement, specifically math achievement of Black girls, is still very limited. Mathematics is an important foundational component of science, technology, and engineering fields, which are domains in which Black girls are underrepresented. Using the nationally rep…
Veering off track in U.S. high schools? Redirecting student trajectories by disrupting punishment and math course-taking tracks
School Discipline, Race–Gender and STEM Readiness: A Hierarchical Analysis of the Impact of School Discipline on Math Achievement in High School
Five years later, but centuries in the making: Ferguson, racial segregation, and fatal interactions with police
A still from White by Law, an animated film by Sarah Paulsen, 2017. A still from White by Law, an animated film by Sarah Paulsen, 2017. In the aftermath of the Ferguson protests, there have been widespread calls for greater police accountability throughout the St. Louis region. As a sociologist committed to evidence-based social reform, I have heard in these calls a mix of truths and faulty assumptions. I work to delineate hypotheses about underl…
How neighborhoods matter in fatal interactions between police and men of color
Expressive Cool' and the Paradox of Black and White Males' Neighborhood Socialization Toward Education
This study explores how linkages between adolescents' educational attitudes and achievement vary according to race, expressive culture, and neighborhood collective socialization qualities. Specifically, the study examines (a) racial differences in how males' educational attitudes relate to their academic performance (i.e., 'attitude-achievement paradox'); (b) how the attitude-achievement paradox varies according to Black and White males' expressi…
Equalizers or Enablers of Inequality? A Counterfactual Analysis of Racial and Residential Test Score Gaps in Year-Round and Nine-Month Schools
Persistent racial/ethnic and residential disparities in test scores suggest schools fail to serve as society's great equalizers. Yet few studies have explored whether policies that adjust children's time in school are effective in reducing test-score inequality. We use ECLS-K data to compare children who attend year-round schools to those in nine-month schools, exploring (1) whether there were mean differences in the reading and math performance …
Responding to School Violence: Confronting the Columbine Effect
How neighborhoods matter in fatal interactions between police and men of color
Still Separate, Still Unequal: The Relation of Segregation in Neighborhoods and Schools to Education Inequality
(ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.)Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas (1954), the nation has secured racially separate schools once again. School desegregation reached the height of its success during the Nixon-Ford administrations (1969-1977). For example, the percentage of African Americans in southern schools that were at least 99 percent Black declined from 99.5 percent in 1962 to 17.9 percent by 1975 (The So…
Ecology in Educational Theory: Thoughts on Stratification, Social Mobility & Proximal Capital
Is Concentrated Advantage the Cause? The Relative Contributions of Neighborhood Advantage and Disadvantage to Educational Inequality
The Collateral Damage of In-School Suspensions: A Counterfactual Analysis of High-Suspension Schools, Math Achievement and College Attendance
Even the least severe forms of exclusionary discipline are associated with detrimental effects for students that attend schools that overuse them. With a nationally representative longitudinal study of high school students, we utilize propensity score weighting to limit selection bias associated with schools that issue high numbers of in-school suspensions. Accounting for school social order and individual suspensions, we find that high-suspensio…
National Burden of Injury and Deaths From Shootings by Police in the United States, 2015‒2020
Objectives. To describe all-outcome injurious shootings by police and compare characteristics of fatal versus nonfatal injurious shootings nationally. Methods. From July 2021 to April 2023, we manually reviewed publicly available records on all 2015–2020 injurious shootings by US police, identified from Gun Violence Archive. We estimated injury frequency, case fatality rates, and relative odds of death by incident and victim characteristics. Resu…
The Process of 'Pushing Out: Accumulated Disadvantage across School Punishment and Math Achievement Trajectories
Students drop out of school for a variety of reasons, yet are 'pushed out' when they exhibit traits that are deemed undesirable to school officials, such as misbehavior and academic failure. While much of the previous research on pushouts views the phenomenon as a discrete occurrence often attributed to either misbehavior or academic failure, we recognize the underlying relationships between punishment and achievement, and therefore conceptualize…
Infrastructure of social control: A multi-level counterfactual analysis of surveillance and Black education
Veering off track in U.S. high schools? Redirecting student trajectories by disrupting punishment and math course-taking tracks
Equalizers or Enablers of Inequality? A Counterfactual Analysis of Racial and Residential Test Score Gaps in Year-Round and Nine-Month Schools
Persistent racial/ethnic and residential disparities in test scores suggest schools fail to serve as society's great equalizers. Yet few studies have explored whether policies that adjust children's time in school are effective in reducing test-score inequality. We use ECLS-K data to compare children who attend year-round schools to those in nine-month schools, exploring (1) whether there were mean differences in the reading and math performance …
School Discipline, Race–Gender and STEM Readiness: A Hierarchical Analysis of the Impact of School Discipline on Math Achievement in High School
Expressive Cool' and the Paradox of Black and White Males' Neighborhood Socialization Toward Education
This study explores how linkages between adolescents' educational attitudes and achievement vary according to race, expressive culture, and neighborhood collective socialization qualities. Specifically, the study examines (a) racial differences in how males' educational attitudes relate to their academic performance (i.e., 'attitude-achievement paradox'); (b) how the attitude-achievement paradox varies according to Black and White males' expressi…
Moving from Hope to Choice: Childhood Inequalities and Mechanisms for Reducing Inequalities Across Mixed-Income Housing and Neighborhood Redevelopment Initiatives
Despite the potential benefits, research has yet to synthesize the impact of mixed-income initiatives on educational opportunities for families. Moreover, the policy intentions of mixed-income initiatives, particularly concerning children's educational opportunities, remain largely untested and lack theoretical and conceptual foregrounding. To fill these knowledge gaps, we critically review the Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere and Choi…
Epistemic Marginalization and Methodology 50 Years after The Death of White Sociology
In its original form, the following essay was the closing keynote address of the annual meeting of the Sociology of Education Association (SEA), held in Monterey, California on February 20, 2023. That year was the 50th anniversary of both the founding of SEA and the publication of the landmark volume, The Death of White Sociology. In commemorating these events and assessing how the field of sociology has changed 50 years later, this essay juxtapo…
Impact of In-School Suspension on Black Girls’ Math Course-Taking in High School
Black girls are more likely to receive in-school suspension (ISS) in comparison to their non-Black peers. However, research on the effect of in-school suspension on students’ academic achievement, specifically math achievement of Black girls, is still very limited. Mathematics is an important foundational component of science, technology, and engineering fields, which are domains in which Black girls are underrepresented. Using the nationally rep…
Ecology in Educational Theory: Thoughts on Stratification, Social Mobility & Proximal Capital
Is Concentrated Advantage the Cause? The Relative Contributions of Neighborhood Advantage and Disadvantage to Educational Inequality
Still Separate, Still Unequal: The Relation of Segregation in Neighborhoods and Schools to Education Inequality
(ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.)Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas (1954), the nation has secured racially separate schools once again. School desegregation reached the height of its success during the Nixon-Ford administrations (1969-1977). For example, the percentage of African Americans in southern schools that were at least 99 percent Black declined from 99.5 percent in 1962 to 17.9 percent by 1975 (The So…
Responding to School Violence: Confronting the Columbine Effect
Equalizers or Enablers of Inequality? A Counterfactual Analysis of Racial and Residential Test Score Gaps in Year-Round and Nine-Month Schools
Persistent racial/ethnic and residential disparities in test scores suggest schools fail to serve as society's great equalizers. Yet few studies have explored whether policies that adjust children's time in school are effective in reducing test-score inequality. We use ECLS-K data to compare children who attend year-round schools to those in nine-month schools, exploring (1) whether there were mean differences in the reading and math performance …
Expressive Cool' and the Paradox of Black and White Males' Neighborhood Socialization Toward Education
This study explores how linkages between adolescents' educational attitudes and achievement vary according to race, expressive culture, and neighborhood collective socialization qualities. Specifically, the study examines (a) racial differences in how males' educational attitudes relate to their academic performance (i.e., 'attitude-achievement paradox'); (b) how the attitude-achievement paradox varies according to Black and White males' expressi…
How neighborhoods matter in fatal interactions between police and men of color
Veering off track in U.S. high schools? Redirecting student trajectories by disrupting punishment and math course-taking tracks
School Discipline, Race–Gender and STEM Readiness: A Hierarchical Analysis of the Impact of School Discipline on Math Achievement in High School
Five years later, but centuries in the making: Ferguson, racial segregation, and fatal interactions with police
A still from White by Law, an animated film by Sarah Paulsen, 2017. A still from White by Law, an animated film by Sarah Paulsen, 2017. In the aftermath of the Ferguson protests, there have been widespread calls for greater police accountability throughout the St. Louis region. As a sociologist committed to evidence-based social reform, I have heard in these calls a mix of truths and faulty assumptions. I work to delineate hypotheses about underl…
Exogenous Policy, Racial Avoidance, and the Qualified Relevance of Macroeconomic Change to Metropolitan Inequality
Context: The rich contextualization of educational processes brought about in the pioneering work of Jean Anyon pushed scientists to acknowledge that the education being provided to the least advantaged was shaped by factors with origins beyond school and family environments. Political economic work in education has subsequently argued that an unforgiving economy has lessened the educational fortunes of urban residents. Focus of Study: In respons…
Impact of In-School Suspension on Black Girls’ Math Course-Taking in High School
Black girls are more likely to receive in-school suspension (ISS) in comparison to their non-Black peers. However, research on the effect of in-school suspension on students’ academic achievement, specifically math achievement of Black girls, is still very limited. Mathematics is an important foundational component of science, technology, and engineering fields, which are domains in which Black girls are underrepresented. Using the nationally rep…
Suspended While Black in Majority White Schools: Implications for Math Efficacy and Equity
This article explores whether racial disparities in mathematics arise in majority White schools for students who receive in-school suspensions (ISS). Using data from the High School Longitudinal Survey and machine learning generated propensity scores to estimate average treatment effects, we find Black suspended students in schools with low White enrollment have math test scores and efficacy beliefs no different than non-suspended Black students,…
Perceptions of School Quality and Student Learning During the Pandemic: Exploring the Role of Students, Families, Schools, and Neighborhoods
Given the inequitable distribution of resources across school, neighborhood, and home contexts in the United States, lower resourced students may have had fewer opportunities to learn during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, which may have caused previous disadvantages to accumulate during the pandemic. Nevertheless, research has yet to comprehensively explore how school, neighborhood, and home contexts— together—relate to perceptions of sch…
Infrastructure of social control: A multi-level counterfactual analysis of surveillance and Black education
The Process of 'Pushing Out: Accumulated Disadvantage across School Punishment and Math Achievement Trajectories
Students drop out of school for a variety of reasons, yet are 'pushed out' when they exhibit traits that are deemed undesirable to school officials, such as misbehavior and academic failure. While much of the previous research on pushouts views the phenomenon as a discrete occurrence often attributed to either misbehavior or academic failure, we recognize the underlying relationships between punishment and achievement, and therefore conceptualize…
The Collateral Damage of In-School Suspensions: A Counterfactual Analysis of High-Suspension Schools, Math Achievement and College Attendance
Even the least severe forms of exclusionary discipline are associated with detrimental effects for students that attend schools that overuse them. With a nationally representative longitudinal study of high school students, we utilize propensity score weighting to limit selection bias associated with schools that issue high numbers of in-school suspensions. Accounting for school social order and individual suspensions, we find that high-suspensio…
National Burden of Injury and Deaths From Shootings by Police in the United States, 2015‒2020
Objectives. To describe all-outcome injurious shootings by police and compare characteristics of fatal versus nonfatal injurious shootings nationally. Methods. From July 2021 to April 2023, we manually reviewed publicly available records on all 2015–2020 injurious shootings by US police, identified from Gun Violence Archive. We estimated injury frequency, case fatality rates, and relative odds of death by incident and victim characteristics. Resu…
Social and policy characteristics associated with injurious shootings by police in US counties: A multilevel analysis, 2015-2020
Hidden Within the Structure: How Poor School Buildings Further Contribute to Concentrated Debt
This article addresses disparities in school building conditions and repair within the state of Maryland, drawing particular attention to how the state maintenance funding formula systematically disadvantages the Baltimore school system, the state's system with the highest proportion of African American learners. We highlight the profound impacts of school infrastructure on students’ educational experiences and outcomes, particularly attendance a…
Shouldering the labor of school desegregation: Stress and health implications for Black families
Many U.S. Black students and their families seek quality educational opportunities by enrolling in schools far from their residence via school choice or school desegregation initiatives, a primary impetus to school choice programs. Using data drawn from in-depth interviews and surveys with caregivers of Black student participants (n=22) who attended one of the few remaining U.S. school desegregation programs, we characterize families’ day-to-day …
Moving from Hope to Choice: Childhood Inequalities and Mechanisms for Reducing Inequalities Across Mixed-Income Housing and Neighborhood Redevelopment Initiatives
Despite the potential benefits, research has yet to synthesize the impact of mixed-income initiatives on educational opportunities for families. Moreover, the policy intentions of mixed-income initiatives, particularly concerning children's educational opportunities, remain largely untested and lack theoretical and conceptual foregrounding. To fill these knowledge gaps, we critically review the Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere and Choi…
Epistemic Marginalization and Methodology 50 Years after The Death of White Sociology
In its original form, the following essay was the closing keynote address of the annual meeting of the Sociology of Education Association (SEA), held in Monterey, California on February 20, 2023. That year was the 50th anniversary of both the founding of SEA and the publication of the landmark volume, The Death of White Sociology. In commemorating these events and assessing how the field of sociology has changed 50 years later, this essay juxtapo…
Is doing better science enough?: An autoethnographic study of a multidisciplinary collaboration to measure structural racism
OBJECTIVES: Addressing structural racism remains a critical challenge in population health and social sciences, as traditional quantitative approaches often fail to disrupt long-standing racialized health hierarchies. This study critically interrogates the process of a multidisciplinary scientific collaboration attempting to operationalize and measure life course structural racism while enacting an anti-racist praxis. DESIGN: Utilizing a collabor…
Can Neighborhood Redevelopment Initiatives Improve Educational Outcomes? Novel Evidence From the Choice Neighborhood Initiative
Mixed-income initiatives provide critical investments in neighborhoods, including investments to improve schools, and provide case management and family support services to low-income families. The Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI) is one of the largest and most comprehensive mixed-income neighborhood redevelopment initiatives to date; however, research has yet to examine the CNI’s effect on educational outcomes. We applied a robust differenc…
Psychology (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · School Choice and Performance (12 works) · Mathematics education (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Education Discipline and Inequality (8 works) · Mathematics (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works)