Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
Cohen-Vogel, L., Harrison, C., Socol, A., Xing, Q., Edwards, T., & Carson, C. (2024) Warrants for change: An agenda for improving education research. American Journal of Education, 130(4), pp. 1-35.
Farrell, C., Harrison, C., & Coburn, C. (2019). “What the hell is this and who the hell are you?” Role and identity negotiation in research-practice partnerships. AERA Open. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2332858419849595
Harrison, C., Wachen, J., Brown, S., & Cohen-Vogel, L. (2019). A view from within: Lessons learned from doing continuous improvement research. Teachers College Record, 121(9), 1-38.
Cohen-Vogel, L., Allen, D., Rutledge, S., Cannata, M., Harrison, C., & Smith, T. (2018). The dilemmas of research-practice partnerships: Implications for improvement research in education. Journal of Research on Organization in Education, 2, p. 1-24
Harrison, C., Davidson, K., & Farrell, C. (2017). Building more productive relationships: District leaders’ advice for researchers. The International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 12(4), 1-16.
Wachen, J., Harrison, C., & Cohen-Vogel, L. (2017). Data use as instructional reform: Exploring educators’ reports of classroom practice. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 1-30.
Harrison, C. (2017). Advocacy groups and the discourse of teacher policy reform: An analysis of policy narratives. Peabody Journal of Education, 92(1), 42-52.
Tichnor-Wagner, A., Harrison, C., & Cohen-Vogel, L. (2016). Cultures of learning in effective high schools. Educational Administration Quarterly, 52(4), p. 602-642.
Kainz, K., Cohen-Vogel, L., & Harrison, C. (April 2015). Continuous improvement as an ideal for improving teaching and teaching evaluation. American School Board Journal.
Cohen-Vogel, L., Tichnor-Wagner, A., Allen, D., Harrison, C., Kainz, K., Socol, A. R., & Wang, Q. (2015). Implementing educational innovations at scale: Transforming researchers into Continuous Improvement scientists. Educational Policy, 29(1), p. 257-277.
Cohen-Vogel, L. & Harrison, C. (2013). Leading with data: Evidence from the National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 12(2), p. 122-145.
Harrison, C. & Cohen-Vogel, L. (2012). The politics of teacher reform in Florida: Analyzing causal narratives surrounding state adoption of performance-based evaluations, performance pay and tenure elimination. Peabody Journal of Education, 87(5), p. 517-534.
Book Chapters
Cohen-Vogel, L., Rutledge, S., Peurach, D., Lin Russell, J., Hinnant-Crawford, B., & Harrison, C. (2025). Improvement research in education: Charting a policy pathway to a deeper research enterprise. In the AERA Handbook of Education Policy Research (2nd Ed., pp. 397-416). Eds. Cohen-Vogel, L., Youngs, P., & Scott, J.
Wong, L., Spillane, J., Huguet, A., Harrison, C., & Coburn, C. (2022). School leaders’ use of research: Viewing research use in decision making through an organizational lens. In The International Encyclopedia of Education. Eds. Tierney, Rizfi, F., & Ercikan, K. Elsevier.
Cohen-Vogel, L., Harrison, C. & Cohen-Vogel, D. (2022). On teams: Exploring variation in the social organization of improvement research in education. In The Foundational Handbook on Improvement Research in Education. Eds. Peurach, D., Russel, J.L., Cohen-Vogel, L, & Penuel, W. London: Sage Publications.
Cohen-Vogel, L., Harrison, C., Griffard, M. (2019). Organizing for continuous improvement in education. In Oxford Bibliographies in Education. Ed. Anne Hynds. New York: Oxford University Press.
Huguet, A., Wong, L., Harrison, C., Coburn, C., & Spillane, J. (2018). Research use in schools: A framework for understanding research use in school-level decision making. In The SAGE Handbook of School Organization. London: Sage Publications.
