Research Publications


PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Templeton D. & Korchagin R (2026). Handcuffed for 15 min: public perceptions of restraint and seclusion in schools: an experimental study of race and disability. Frontiers of Psychology, 16. 16:1646644. 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1646644 

Templeton, D., Gordan, T. & Korchagin, R. (2026). “If We Don't Tell Our Stories, They'll Erase Us”: Understanding the Criminalization of Disabled Black American Activists. Diversity & Inclusion Research, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.1002/dvr2.70049. 

Templeton, D., (2025). The Laying on of Hands: Anti-Black and Anti-Gender-Expansive Biases in Public Perceptions of School Personnel Performance Ratings. Educational Researcher, 54(6). https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X251368365.

Templeton, D., (2025). Bureaucratic representation may lead to less discriminatory outcomes for American Indian and Two Spirit youth: Evidence from an online experiment on school criminalization. AERA Open, 11. https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584251338847 

Templeton, D. (2025). The U.S. public disapproves of corporal punishment in American schools…for some kids more than others: Evidence from an online experiment on (school) criminalization. Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Education, 1-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2025.2488746.

Templeton D., Korchagin R., Valla B., Ford JR. (2025). When Parent–Teacher Collaboration Turns Violent: Corporal Punishment in American Schools and Subsequent (Secondary) Trauma. Children 12(6):684. https://doi.org/10.3390/children12060684

Templeton, D., Korchagin, R., & Valla, B. (2025). Left Behind in Lockdown: How COVID-19 Deepened the Crisis in K-12 Physical Education. Children, 12(5), 603. https://doi.org/10.3390/children12050603

Templeton, D. (2025) [Forthcoming]. Gender Expansive Students and the School-to-Prison Nexus. In Roberts, L. (ed.), The Sage International Encyclopedia of Politics and Gender (Vol. #, pp. #-#). Sage Publications, Inc.

Templeton, D. (2024). The Immovable Veil of Black disability: An introduction to Black disability racial threat theory and its application to school criminalization. Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2024.2398474

Templeton, D. and Korchagin, R. (2024). Exercising Educational Equity Using California's Physical Fitness Data: A call for more school physical fitness programs, data, and research. Frontiers of Education. DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1433466.

Jenkins, L., Marks, L.R., Perez-Felkner, L., Verma, K., Templeton, D., Thomas, J. (2024). Applying the Bystander Intervention Model to Racial Microaggressions in College Students. International Journal of Bullying Prevention. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42380-024-00216-x.

Marks, L., Jenkins, L., Perez-Felkner, L., Templeton, D., & Verma, K. (2024). Social Cognitive Predictors of Bystander Intervention in Racial Microaggressions among College Students. Race and Social Problems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12552-024-09412-2.

Wright, J., Gaozhao, D., Dukes, K., & Templeton, D. (2022). The power of protests: An experiment of Black Lives Matter protest presence and citizens’ perceptions of the police. Public Administration Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13498. 

Holton, A., Perez-Felkner, L., & Templeton, D. (2022). How do institutional type and transfer affect contemporary college students' degree attainment. Community College Journal of Research and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/10668926.2022.2156633. 


BOOK CHAPTERS

Perez-Felkner, L., Fluker, C., & Templeton, D. (2024). Interventions at minority-serving institutions beyond HSIs: A critical mixed methods analysis of Latinx students in diverse contexts. In L. Perez-Felkner, C. Fluker & C. Rodriguez (Eds.). Latinx students in engineering (1st ed.). 10.36019/9781978838703-008.                                                                                                                                                        

                                                                                           POLICY BRIEFS & OP-EDS

Templeton, D. (2025). Rebuilding K–12 Physical Education after COVID-19. https://scholars.org/contribution/rebuilding-k-12-physical-education-after-covid.

Templeton, D. (2025). Empowering Disabled Black Youth Through Equitable Education Policies. Scholars Strategy Network. https://scholars.org/contribution/empowering-disabled-black-youth-through.

Templeton, D. (2025). Corporal Punishment Is Losing Ground — But Some Still Favor It for Certain Kids. 74. https://www.the74million.org/article/corporal-punishment-is-losing-ground-but-some-still-favor-it-for-certain-kids/

Templeton, D. (2025). Improving student health through physical fitness in California schools. Scholars Strategy Network. https://scholars.org/contribution/improving-student-health-through-physical.

Templeton, D. (2025). End corporal punishment in Mississippi schools. Scholars Strategy Network. https://scholars.org/contribution/end-corporal-punishment-mississippi-schools.

Templeton, D. (2025). California needs a fitness revolution. EdSource. https://edsource.org/2025/california-schools-need-a-fitness-revolution/732149.