Margarita Pivovarova is an Assistant Professor of Education Economics at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. Her research interests include education policy and related quantitative research. Specifically, her research studies the economic consequences of accountability and financial incentives in education. In addition, she studies peer interactions in school contexts and optimal classroom or school design.

• IntroductionMoving Beyond the Paradigm Wars: Emergent Approaches for Education Research - Margarita Pivovarova, Jeanne M. Powers, and Gustavo E. FischmanTechnological Innovations That Change the Scale and Scope of Education ResearchResearch Synthesis Infrastructures: Shaping Knowledge in Education - J. W. Hammond, Pamela A. Moss, Minh Q. Huynh, and Carl LagozeTerminological “Communities”: A Conceptual Mapping of Scholarship Identified With Education’s “Global Turn” - Heela Goren, Miri Yemini, Claire Maxwell, and Efrat Blumenfeld-LieberthalPlace Matters: A Critical Review of Place Inquiry and Spatial Methods in Education Research - Alisha Butler and Kristin A. SinclairGeospatial Analysis: A New Window Into Educational Equity, Access, and Opportunity - Casey D. CobbMining Big Data in Education: Affordances and Challenges - Christian Fischer, Zachary A. Pardos, Ryan Shaun Baker, Joseph Jay Williams, Padhraic Smyth, Renzhe Yu, Stefan Slater, Rachel Baker, and Mark WarschauerExpanding the Boundaries of Education ResearchStudying the Over-Time Construction of Knowledge in Educational Settings: A Microethnographic Discourse Analysis Approach - Judith L. Green, W. Douglas Baker, Monaliza Maximo Chian, Carmen Vanderhoof, LeeAnna Hooper, Gregory J. Kelly, Audra Skukauskaite, and Melinda Z. KalainoffEmerging Perspectives on the Co-Construction of Power and Learning in the Learning Sciences, Mathematics Education, and Science Education - Thomas M. Philip and Ayush GuptaUse of Quasi-Experimental Research Designs in Education Research: Growth, Promise, and Challenges - Maithreyi Gopalan, Kelly Rosinger, and Jee Bin AhnLinking Quantitative and Qualitative Network Approaches: A Review of Mixed Methods Social Network Analysis in Education Research - Dominik E. Froehlich, Sara Van Waes, and Hannah SchäferCritical Counter-Narrative as Transformative Methodology for Educational Equity - Richard Miller, Katrina Liu, and Arnetha F. BallRethinking What We Know So FarHow Administrative Data Collection and Analysis Can Better Reflect Racial and Ethnic Identities - Samantha Viano and Dominique J. BakerQualitative Comparative Analysis in Education Research: Its Current Status and Future Potential - Sebnem Cilesiz and Thomas GreckhamerBifurcating Worlds? A Systematic Review of How Visual and Language Data Are Combined to Study Teachers and Their Teaching - Rachel E. Schachter, Donald Freeman, and Naivedya ParakkalResearch on Continuous Improvement: Exploring the Complexities of Managing Educational Change - Maxwell M. Yurkofsky, Amelia J. Peterson, Jal D. Mehta, Rebecca Horwitz-Willis, and Kim M. FruminAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors