Kelly, M.G., & Farrie, D. (2023). Misrepresented funding gaps in data for some states. Educational Researcher, 52 (4), 244-247.

Kelly, M.G. & *Maselli, A (2023). School finance policies, racial disparities, and the educational debt: Egregious evidence from Pennsylvania. Journal of Education Human Resources, 41 (3), 514-533.

Kelly, M.G. (2022). How to reform without reforming: School district racial composition and Pennsylvania’s “fair” funding formula. Education and Urban Society, 54 (9), 1143-1165.

Jimenez-Castellanos, O., Kelly, M.G. & *Carranza, J.L. (2021). Pre- and post-Serrano: Systemic racism, school funding disparities, and Mexican-American communities. Education Law & Policy Review, 6, 49-72.

Kelly, M.G. & Schafft, K. (2021). A “resource curse” for education?: Deepening education disparities in Pennsylvania’s shale gas boomtowns. Society & Natural Resources, 34 (1), 23-39.

• Awarded Rabel J. Burdge and Donald R. Field Outstanding Article Award for best article published in in Society & Natural Resources in 2021

Kelly, M.G. (2020). The curious case of the missing tail: Trends among the top 1% of school districts in the United States, 2000-2015. Educational Researcher. 49 (5), 312-320.

Kelly, M.G. (2020). ‘Theoretically all children are equal. Practically this can never be so’: The history of the district property tax in California and the choice of inequality. Teachers College Record, 122 (2), 1-32.

Kelly, M.G. (2019). A map is more than just a graph: Geospatial educational research and the importance of historical context. AERA Open, 5(1), 1-14.

Kelly, M.G. (2018). The deep and tangled roots of real estate markets, the state, and public education. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 50(3), 191-203.

Kelly, M.G. (2016). Schoolmaster’s empire: Race, conquest, and the centralization of common schooling in California. History of Education Quarterly, 56(3), 445-472.

• Awarded the History of Education Society Prize for best refereed article published in previous two years

Kelly, M.G. (2014). The mythology of schooling: The historiography of American and European education in comparative perspective. Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 50(6), 756-773.