Politics of education

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Tamir, E. (2012). Finding Superman: A book review. Teachers College Record. ID Number: 16943

Tamir, E. & Davidson, R. (2011). Staying above the fray: Framing and conflict in the coverage of education policy debates. American Journal of Education 117(2), 233-265.
Tamir, E. (2010). Capital, power, and the struggle over teacher certification. Educational Policy 24(3), 465-499.
Tamir, E. (2008). Theorizing the politics of educational reform: The case of New Jersey’s alternate route to teacher certification. American Journal of Education, 115(1).

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Federal education policy

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Wilson, S., & Tamir, E. (2008). The evolving field of teacher education: How understanding challenge(r)s might improve the preparation of teachers.
Tamir, E., & Wilson, S. (2005). Who should guard the gates: Evidentiary and professional warrants for claiming jurisdiction. Journal of Teacher Education, 56(4), 332-342.
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Teacher preparation

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Tamir, E., Feiman-Nemser, S., Silvera-Sasson, R. & Cytryn, J. (2010). The DeLeT Alumni Survey: A Comprehensive Report on the Journey of Beginning Jewish Day School Teachers. Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education, Brandeis University.
 

Teacher careers and labor markets­

Tamir, E. (2013). What keeps teachers in and what drives them out: Findings from a longitudinal comparative case-based study of beginning teachers in urban-public, urban-catholic, and Jewish day schools. Teachers College Record 115(6). 
Tamir, E. (2013). Choosing teaching as a career in urban public Catholic and Jewish schools by graduates of elite colleges. Journal of Educational Change.
Tamir, E. & Lesik, S. (2013). Jewish Day School Teachers: Career Commitments in the 21st Century. Journal of Jewish Education 79 (2), 131-156. 
Birkeland, S., & Tamir, E. (2013). What does it mean for a school administrator to be supportive? Jewish Educational Leadership.
Tamir, E. (2013). School Quality depends on teacher quality. HaYidion.
Tamir, E. (2011). The impact of the economic recession on teachers and teaching in Jewish day schools. Private School Monitor 32(2), 1-11.
Tamir, E. & Magidin de-Kramer, R. (2011). Teacher retention and career commitments among DeLeT graduates: The intersection of teachers’ background, preparation to teaching, and school context. Journal of Jewish Education 77(2), 76-97. 
Tamir, E. (2010). The retention question in context-specific teacher education: do beginning teachers and their program directors see teachers’ future career eye to eye. Teaching and Teacher Education 26(3), 665-678.
Tamir, E. (2009). Choosing to teach in urban schools among graduates of elite colleges. Urban Education 44(5), 522-544.

 

Program Evaluation

 

Tamir, E. (2012). How to fix our approach to evaluation research in Jewish education -- and why we need to. eJewish Philanthropy.

 

Expansion and Stratification of Israel's Higher Education system

 

Menahem, G., Tamir, E., & Shavit, Y. (2008). The transformation of higher education in Israel in the 1990s. In: A. Yogev (ed.), Higher education expansion in Israel. Tel Aviv: Ramot Press, Tel Aviv University.

 

Shavit, Y., Ayalon, H., Menahem, G., Bolotin C. S., & Tamir, E. (2006). Diversification and stratification in Israeli higher education. In U. Cohen, E. B. Refael, A. Bareli, and E. Yaar (eds.) Israel and modernity: A festschrift for Moshe Lissak. Ben-Gurion University Press.

 

Shavit, Y., & Tamir, E. (2002). Expansion and inequality of opportunity in higher education. In: G. Bettin Lattes (ed.), Mutamenti in Europa - Lezioni di sociologia. University of Florence Press.