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University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

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23 h-index 265 pubs 1,698 cited

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Robert Maranto's research focuses on educational policy and practice, with a particular emphasis on school choice, cyber schooling, and diversity in education. His work investigates the factors influencing student achievement, the operational dynamics of cyber schools, and the impact of school policies on various student populations, including Black students and non-binary students.

Maranto has published extensively on topics such as the efficacy of cyber education, the role of diversity requirements in higher education job markets, and inequities in charter school closures. His recent publications explore the relationships between different types of student-teacher and student-student interactions in cyber environments and student outcomes, as well as the motivations behind students choosing cyber schools, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also examines the experiences of Black women principals and the reasons non-binary students may be drawn to cyber schooling.

With an h-index of 23 and over 265 publications, Maranto is recognized as a highly cited researcher. He collaborates with several colleagues at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Dennis Beck, Martha Bradley-Dorsey, Sarah Ruth Morris, and Patrick J. Wolf, and leads a research group.

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h-index: 23
Publications: 265
Citations: 1,698

Selected Publications

How marginalized identities are related to cyber charter school enrollment (2025) DOI
Introduction to the Special Section the Role (If Any) of the U.S. Federal Government in Education Research (2025) DOI
Do Gradebooks Lean Left?Relationships between Grades and Ideology in American Higher Education (2025) DOI
Call for Manuscripts for June 1, 2025 Journal of School Choice Special Issue: Race, Ethnicity, and School Choice (2025) DOI
The Crucible of Desegregation: The uncertain search for educational equity (2025) DOI
The Journal of School Choice Will Not Censor: Better Schooling, and Democracy, Require ideologically Diverse Social Science (2025) DOI
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) and Cyber Schooling: An Exploratory Study (2024) DOI
Review of How Policies Make Interest Groups: Governments, Unions, and American Education (2024) DOI
Which Police Departments Make Black Lives Matter? (2024) DOI
Does Psychology’s Progressive Ideology Affect Its Undergraduates? A National Test (2023) DOI
Forced choice? Is bullying pushing non-binary students into cyber schools? (2023) DOI
Political Appointees and Political Executives (2022) DOI
Is cyber like in-person? Relationships between student-student, student-teacher interaction and student achievement in cyber schools (2022) DOI
Still Pluralist After All These Years? Considering Whether Political Science Fosters Tolerance for Dissent or Merely Promotes Leftist Values (2021) DOI
Covid, Capitol Insurrection, And (A Lack Of) Education—Time For E.D. Hirsch? (2021) DOI