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Christopher Lubienski

Christopher Lubienski

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
43
Citations
7593
World Ranking
4435
National Ranking
2113

Overview

Christopher Lubienski is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their research primarily engages with the social sciences, concentrating on education and related interdisciplinary fields including political science, demography, sociology, and information systems.

The core of Lubienski's scholarly work lies in education, with a particular focus on school choice, performance, and educational policies. Their research spans topics such as education systems and policy, global educational reforms and inequalities, parental involvement in education, and urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies.

Frequent publication venues for Lubienski include the Journal of Education Policy, Comparative Education, Education Policy Analysis Archives, Phi Delta Kappan, and the Oxford Review of Education. They have contributed multiple articles to these journals, with notable recent papers such as:

  • Market models and segregation: examining mechanisms of student sorting, 2021, Comparative Education
  • School segregation: theoretical insights and future directions, 2021, Comparative Education
  • Information pollution in an age of populist politics, 2022, Education Policy Analysis Archives
  • Between-school stratification of academic curricular offerings in upper secondary education: school decision-making, curriculum policy context, and the educational marketplace, 2020, Oxford Review of Education
  • The impact of marketization on school segregation and educational equity and effectiveness: Evidence from Australia and Canada, 2024, International Journal of Comparative Sociology

Lubienski's research often involves collaboration, with frequent coauthors including Claire Maxwell, Miri Yemini, Joel R. Malin, Laura B. Perry, and Emma Rowe. These collaborations have contributed to addressing complex educational and social issues from multiple perspectives.

Their body of work recurrently addresses systemic issues in educational equity, stratification, and marketization, examining how policies and social mechanisms influence student sorting and school segregation. This research reflects an intersectional approach, considering political and social dimensions alongside educational structures.

Best Publications

  • Innovation in Education Markets: Theory and Evidence on the Impact of Competition and Choice in Charter Schools

    Christopher Lubienski

  • School Choice and Competitive Incentives: Mapping the Distribution of Educational Opportunities across Local Education Markets

    Christopher Lubienski;Charisse Gulosino;Peter Weitzel

  • The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools

    Christopher A. Lubienski;Sarah Theule Lubienski

  • School Sector and Academic Achievement: A Multilevel Analysis of NAEP Mathematics Data

    Sarah Theule Lubienski;Christopher Lubienski

  • Public Schools in Marketized Environments: Shifting Incentives and Unintended Consequences of Competition‐Based Educational Reforms

    Christopher Lubienski

  • World Yearbook of Education 2016 : The Global Education Industry

    Antoni Verger;Christopher Lubienski;Gita Steiner-Khamsi

  • Marketing Schools: Consumer Goods and Competitive Incentives for Consumer Information.

    Christopher Lubienski

  • Achievement Differences and School Type: The Role of School Climate, Teacher Certification, and Instruction

    Sarah Theule Lubienski;Christopher Lubienski;Corinna Crawford Crane

  • Charter, Private, Public Schools and Academic Achievement: New Evidence from NAEP Mathematics Data

    Christopher Lubienski;Sarah Lubienski

  • Do Quasi-markets Foster Innovation in Education?: A Comparative Perspective

    Christopher Lubienski

  • Do Quasi-Markets Foster Innovation in Education?: A Comparative Perspective. OECD Education Working Papers, No. 25.

    Christopher Lubienski

  • Redefining "public" education: Charter schools, common schools, and the rhetoric of reform

    Chris Lubienski

  • Is There a “Consensus” on School Choice and Achievement? Advocacy Research and the Emerging Political Economy of Knowledge Production

    Christopher Lubienski;Peter Weitzel;Sarah Theule Lubienski

  • The Politics of Research Production, Promotion, and Utilization in Educational Policy:

    Christopher Lubienski;Janelle Scott;Elizabeth DeBray

  • Intermediary Organizations in Charter School Policy Coalitions Evidence From New Orleans

    Elizabeth DeBray;Janelle Scott;Christopher Lubienski;Huriya Jabbar

  • Policy mobilities and methodology: a proposition for inventive methods in education policy studies

    Kalervo N. Gulson;Steven Lewis;Bob Lingard;Christopher Lubienski

  • Shopping for schools or shopping for peers: public schools and catchment area segregation

    Emma E. Rowe;Christopher Lubienski

  • The institutional landscape of interest group politics and school choice

    Elizabeth H. DeBray-Pelot;Christopher A. Lubienski;Janelle T. Scott

  • The Emergence and Structuring of the Global Education Industry: Towards an Analytical Framework

    Antoni Verger;Christopher Lubienski;Gita Steiner-Khamsi

  • Using Bibliometric and Social Media Analyses to Explore the "Echo Chamber" Hypothesis

    David Goldie;Matthew Linick;Huriya Jabbar;Christopher Lubienski

  • The charter school experiment : expectations, evidence, and implications

    Christopher A. Lubienski;Peter C. Weitzel

Frequent Co-Authors

Bob Lingard
Bob Lingard Australian Catholic University
Clive Belfield
Clive Belfield Queens College, CUNY

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