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Pendola, A., & Perrone, F. (2025). From school to school: Examining the contours of within-field switching in the special education teacher labor market. AERA Open, 11(11), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584251347941
Pendola, A., & Liu, H. (2025). Comparing Cultures of School Leadership Effectiveness: Rural Leadership Behaviors between China and the U.S. Asia Pacific Education Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12564-025-10053-2
Pendola, A., *Appiah, J., Murrah, W., & *Beavers, C. (2025). The QMER Learning Community: Developing efficacy and belongingness towards foundational STEM skills. Current Issues in Education, (26)1, https://doi.org/10.14507/cie.vol26iss1.2260
Pendola, A., & *Smith-Murphy, K. (2024). We can keep them here: Linking value conflicts to teacher retention strategies. Teacher Development. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13664530.2024.2422405
Pendola, A., *Dai, Y., *Smith-Murphy, K., *Mohundro, A., *Odeniyi, O., *Billingslea, W., *Godwin, A., *Rabinowitz, N., & *Beavers, C. (2024). The ecology of opportunity: Connecting socioecological health and school achievement in Alabama. Educational Review, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2024.2407141
Pendola, A. (2024). When to Step In: Linking Teachers' Behavioral Responses to Workplace Dissastisfaction with Intent to Leave. Teachers & Teaching. https://doi.org/10.1080/13540602.2024.2320168
Pendola, A., Marshall, D. T., Pressley, T., & *Trammell, D. L. (2023). Why teachers leave: It isn't what you
think. Phi Delta Kappan, 105(1), 51-55. https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217231197477
Perrone, F., Pendola, A. (2023). Principal labor markets: Distance and time between transferring schools.
Journal of Education Human Resources. https://doi.org/10.3138/jehr-2022-0010
Rushing, K. J., and Pendola, A. (2022) Outlier leadership in Alabama: Resource challenged schools and principal practices. Journal of Educational Administration. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEA-01-2022-0024
Pendola, A. (2022). Spending in lean times: School-level budget allocations during the Great Recession in Texas. Peabody Journal of Education, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/0161956X.2022.2109913
Pendola, A., Muñoz, I., Zapata, M., & Schaub, M. (2022). Early opportunities and fourth-grade success: State pre-k funding, quality, and access on student achievement. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 30, 126. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.30.7144
Pendola, A., *Jang, H., *Moore, T., *Rushing, J., *Appiah, J., *Guilford, N., *Billingsley, W., *Wilson, N., *Dadematthews, A., & *McCambridge, C. (2022). The Alabama equity divide: Environmental poverty and achievement across urban and rural locales. Educational Research Quarterly, 45(4), 3-44.
*Kim, D. J., & Pendola, A. (2022). (Re)Envisioning mindfulness for leadership retention. NASSP Bulletin, 106(1), 5–31. https://doi.org/10.1177/01926365221079050
Pendola, A., & Fuller, E. J. (2021). Homeward bound? Rural principal hiring, transfer, and turnover patterns in Texas. Educational Administration Quarterly, 58(1), 43–75. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013161X211045920
Pendola, A. (2021). Your pay or someone else’s? Comparative salary position, dispersion, and principal turnover. Educational Finance and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1162/edfp_a_00338
Pendola, A., Mann, B., Marshall, D., & Bryant, J. (2021). Community insurgency: Constituency, school choice, and the common good. Democracy and Education. 29(2), 1-10. https://democracyeducationjournal.org/home/vol29/iss2/1
*Mandel, Z., & Pendola, A. (2021). Policy and principal turnover: The impact of the Texas special education cap. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 29, 152. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.29.5681
Pendola, A., and Fuller, E.J. (2020). Strength from within? Internal recruitment and principal retention. Journal of Education Human Resources, 39(1) 18-53. https://doi.org/10.3138/jehr-2020-0012
Pendola, A. and Fuller, E.J. (2020). Adapt or abandon: Demographic shocks and principal turnover. Leadership and Policy in Schools. https://doi.org/10.1080/15700763.2020.1759650.
Pendola, A. (2020). Tough choices: District spending in Alabama during financial crises. Alabama Journal of Educational Leadership, 7, 62-78.
Pendola, A. (2019). Levinas, bureaucracy, and the ethics of school leadership. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 51(14), 1528-1540.
Mann, B., Marshall, D., Pendola, A., & Bryant, J. (2019). Using charter schools to alleviate racial exclusion in rural America: An innovative idea or a Trojan horse? Journal of School Choice, 13(4), 555-575.
Pendola, A. and Fuller, E.J. (2018). Principal stability and the rural divide. Journal of Rural Research in Education, 34(1), 1-20.
Fuller, E.J., LeMay, M., & Pendola, A. (2018). Who should be our leader? Examining the prevalence of women in secondary school principal positions across geographic locales in Texas Public Schools. Journal of Rural Research in Education, 34(4) 1-21.
LeTendre, G., McGinnis, E., Mitra, D., Montgomery, R., & Pendola, A. (2018) The American Journal of Education: Challenges and opportunities in translational science and the grey area of academic publishing. Revista española de pedagogía, 76(271), 413-435.
Fuller, E. J., Hollingworth, L., & Pendola, A. (2017). The Every Student Succeeds Act, State efforts to improve access to effective educators, and the importance of school leadership. Educational Administration Quarterly, 53(5), 727-756.
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