Bellingham Bay, WA

Bellingham Bay, WA

Yosemite Valley, CA

Yosemite Valley, CA

publications by topic

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* Indicates equal authorship.

Charter schools

*Ferrare, Joseph J., R. Joseph Waddington, Brian Fitzpatrick, and Mark Berends. 2023. “Insufficient Accountability? Heterogeneous Effects of Charter Schools Across Authorizing Agencies.” American Educational Research Journal 60(4):696-734.

*Fitzpatrick, Brian, Mark Berends, Joseph J. Ferrare, and R. Joseph Waddington. 2020. “Virtual Illusion: Comparing Student Achievement and Teacher and Classroom Characteristics in Online and Brick and Mortar Charter Schools.” Educational Researcher 49(3):161-175.

Ferrare, Joseph J. 2020. “Charter School Outcomes.” Pp. 160-173 in Handbook of Research on School Choice (2nd Edition), edited by M. Berends, A. Primus, and M. G. Springer. New York, NY: Routledge. 

Ferrare, Joseph J. and R. Renee Setari. 2018. "Converging on Choice: The Inter-State Flow of Foundation Dollars to Charter School Organizations." Educational Researcher 47(1):34-45.

Au, Wayne and Joseph J. Ferrare. 2015. “Other Peoples’ Policy: Wealthy Elites and Charter School Reform in Washington State.” Pp. 147-164 in Mapping Corporate Education Reform: Power and Policy Networks in the Neoliberal State, edited by W. Au and J. J. Ferrare. New York: Routledge.

Au, Wayne and Joseph J. Ferrare. 2014. “Sponsors of Policy: A Network Analysis of Wealthy Elites, their Affiliated Philanthropies, and Charter School Reform in Washington State.” Teachers College Record 116(8):1-24, http:tcrecord.org ID Number: 17387.

Policy Networks and education reform

Ferrare, Joseph J., Laura Carter-Stone, and Sarah Galey-Horn. 2021. “Ideological Tensions in Education Policy Networks: An Analysis of the Policy Innovators in Education Network in the United States [special issue].” Foro de Educación 19(1):11-28.

Galey-Horn, Sarah and Joseph J. Ferrare. 2020. “Using Policy Network Analysis to Understand Ideological Convergence in Educational Subsystems.” Education Policy Analysis Archives 28(118):1-23.

Galey-Horn, Sarah, Sarah Reckhow, Joseph J. Ferrare and Lorien Jansy. 2020. “Building Consensus: Idea Brokerage in Teacher Policy Networks.” American Educational Research Journal 57(2):872-905.

Kretchmar, Kerry, Sondel, Beth, and Joseph J. Ferrare. 2019. “Teach For America, the Education Entrepreneur Network, and the Reshaping of Teacher Preparation.” Pp. 189-212 in Learning to Teach in an Era of Privatization: Global Trends in Teacher Preparation, edited by C. A. Lubienski & T. J. Brewer. New York, NY: Teachers College Press. 

Kretchmar, Kerry, Beth Sondel and Joseph J. Ferrare. 2018. “The Power of the Network: Teach for America and the Deregulation of Teacher Education.” Educational Policy 32(3):423-453.

Ferrare, Joseph J. and Michael W. Apple. 2017. “Practicing Policy Networks: Using Organizational Field Theory to Examine Philanthropic Involvement in Education Policy.” Pp. 108 - 126 in Practice Theory and Education: Diffractive Readings in Professional Practice, edited by J. Lynch, J. Rowlands, T. Gale, and A. Skourdoumbis (eds.). London: Routledge. 

Ferrare, Joseph J. and Katherine Reynolds. 2016. "Has the Elite Foundation Agenda Spread Beyond the Gates? An Organizational Network Analysis of Non-Major Philanthropic Giving in K12 Education." American Journal of Education 123(1):137-169.

Au, Wayne and Joseph J. Ferrare (eds). 2015. Mapping Corporate Education Reform: Power and Policy Networks in the Neoliberal State. New York, NY: Routledge.

Collin, Ross and Joseph J. Ferrare. 2015. "Rescaling Education: Reconstructions of Scale in President Reagan's 1983 State of the Union Address." Journal of Education Policy 30(5):796-809.

Au, Wayne and Joseph J. Ferrare. 2015. “Introduction: Neoliberalism, Social Networks, and the New Governance of Education.” Pp. 1-22 in Mapping Corporate Education Reform: Power and Policy Networks in the Neoliberal State, edited by W. Au and J. J. Ferrare. New York: Routledge.

Kretchmar, Kerry, Beth Sondel and Joseph J. Ferrare. 2014. “Mapping the Terrain: Teach for America, Charter School Reform, and Corporate Sponsorship.” Journal of Education Policy 29(6):742-759.

  • Reprinted as: Sondel, Beth, Kerry Kretchmar and Joseph J. Ferrare. “Mapping the Education Entrepreneurial Network: Teach For America, Charter School Reform, and Corporate Sponsorship.”  Pp. 65-85 in Mapping Corporate Education Reform: Power and Policy Networks in the Neoliberal State, edited by W. Au and J. J. Ferrare. New York: Routledge. 

Educational Stratification, Persistence, and Degree Completion

Sims, Lillian Rogers and Joseph J. Ferrare. 2021. “‘Since I am From Where I am From’: How Rural and Urban First-Generation College Students Differentially Use Social Capital to Choose a College Major.” Journal of Research in Rural Education 37(6):1-21.

Ferrare, Joseph J. and Julia Miller. 2020. “Making Sense of Persistence in Scientific Purgatory: A Multi-Institutional Analysis of Instructors in Introductory STEM Courses.” The Journal of Higher Education 91(1):113-138.

*Lee, You-Geon and Joseph J. Ferrare. 2019. "Finding One's Place or Losing the Race? The Consequences of STEM Departure for College Dropout and Degree Completion." The Review of Higher Education 43(1):221-261.

Ferrare, Joseph J. 2016. "Intergenerational Education Mobility Trends By Race and Gender in the United States." AERA Open 2(4):1-17. 

Ferrare, Joseph J. 2013. “The Duality of Courses and Students: A Field-Theoretic Analysis of Secondary School Course-Taking.” Sociology of Education 86(2):139-157.

Undergraduate Teaching & Learning

Ferrare, Joseph J. 2019. “A Multi-Institutional Analysis of Instructional Beliefs and Practices in Gateway Courses to the Sciences.” CBE-Life Sciences Education 18(2):1-16.

  • See article annotation by: Price, Rebecca M., Joseph. J. Ferrare, and Clark R. Coffman. 2020. “Mixed Methods: Comparing Modes of Instruction with Instructor Beliefs.” CBE-Life Sciences Education June 9, 2020.

Ferrare, Joseph J. and Matthew T. Hora. 2014. “Cultural Models of Teaching and Learning in Math and Science: Exploring the Intersections of Culture, Cognition, and Pedagogical Situations.” The Journal of Higher Education 85(6):792-825.

Hora, Matthew T. and Joseph J. Ferrare. 2014. “Re-measuring Postsecondary Teaching: How Singular Categories of Instruction Obscure the Multiple Dimensions of Classroom Practice.” Journal of College Science Teaching 43(3):36-41.

Hora, Matthew T. and Joseph J. Ferrare. 2013. “Instructional Systems of Practice: A Multidimensional Analysis of Undergraduate Math and Science Course Planning and Classroom Teaching.” Journal of the Learning Sciences 22(2):212-257. 

conceptual and Methodological articles

Ferrare, Joseph J., Sarah Galey-Horn, Lorien Jasny, and Laura Carter-Stone. 2021. “Measuring Issue Preferences, Idea Brokerage, and Research-Use in Policy Networks: A Case Study of the Policy Innovators in Education (PIE) Network.” Pp. 101-127 in Knowledge Brokers, Networks and the Policymaking Process, edited by Matthew Weber and Itzhak Yanovitzky. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Ferrare, Joseph J. and Kate Phillippo. 2021. “Conflict Theory, Extended: A Framework for Understanding Contemporary Struggles Over Education Policy.” Educational Policy OnlineFirst:1-37.

Ferrare, Joseph J. 2020. “Embedding Networks in Fields: Toward an Expanded Model of Relational Analysis in Education.” Pp. 45-67 in Relational Sociology and Research on Schools, Colleges and Universities, edited by W. G. Tierney and S. Kolluri. New York, NY: SUNY Press.

Miller, Julia, Joseph J. Ferrare, and Michael W. Apple. 2020. “Practices Within Positions: A Methodology for Analyzing Intra-Group Differences in Educational Fields.” Pp. 83-103 in Practice Methodologies in Education, edited by edited by J. Lynch, J. Rowlands, T. Gale, and S. Parker. New York, NY: Routledge. 

Ferrare, Joseph J. and Michael W. Apple. 2015. "Field Theory and Educational Practice: Bourdieu and the Pedagogic Qualities of Local Field Positions in Educational Contexts." Cambridge Journal of Education 45(1):43-59. 

Ferrare, Joseph J. and Michael W. Apple. 2010. “Spatializing Critical Education: Progress and Cautions.” Critical Studies in Education 51(2):209-221.

Ferrare, Joseph J. 2009. “Can Critical Education Research be ‘Quantitative’?” Pp. 465-481 in The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education, edited by M. W. Apple, W. Au, and L. A. Gandin. New York: Routledge.

Essay Reviews, Book Reviews, and Special Issue Introductions

Ferrare, Joseph J. 2020.  “Lesson Plans: The Institutional Demands of Becoming a Teacher by Judson G. Everitt,” American Journal of Sociology 125(5):1407-1409. 

Buras, Kristen L., Joseph J. Ferrare and Michael W. Apple. 2013. “Grassroots Educational Organizing in an Era of Venture Capital [Special Issue].” Critical Studies in Education 54(1):1-4.

Ferrare, Joseph J. and Michael W. Apple. 2012. “Bourdieu, Bricolage, and Education Research.” An essay review of Schooling in Disadvantaged Communities: Playing the Game from the Back of the Field by Carmen Mills and Trevor Gale. London and New York: Springer, 2010. pp. 136. Pedagogy, Culture, and Society 20(2):341-351.

Ferrare, Joseph J. and Michael W. Apple. 2012. “Youth, Marginalization, and the City.” An Essay Review of Lost Youth in the Global City: Class, Culture and the Urban Imaginary by Jo-Anne Dillabough and Jacqueline Kennelly. London: Routledge, 2010. pp. 256. Pedagogy, Culture, and Society 20(1):163-172.

 

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