Dr. Annika Wilmers and Dr. Sieglinde Jornitz are both academic staff at DIPF
Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Sieglinde Jornitz, Annika Wilmers - Transatlantic Encounters: Placing Education Research Interests in an International Context
I. School Leadership and School Development
Stefan Brauckmann-Sajkiewicz, Petros Pashiardis and Ellen Goldring - Comparing School Leadership Practices in Germany and the United States: Contexts, Constructs and Constraints
Esther Dominique Klein, Michelle D. Young and Susanne Böse - Successful Leadership in Schools Serving Disadvantaged Communities in Germany and the USA
Pierre Tulowitzki, Marcus Pietsch and James Spillane - Leadership for Learning in Germany and the US: Commonalities and Differences
Barbara Muslic, Jonathan Supovitz and Harm Kuper - Distributed Leadership in Schools: German and American Perspectives
II. Migration, Refugees, and Public Education
Lisa Damaschke-Deitrick and Alexander W. Wiseman - Migration, Refugees, and Education: Challenges and Opportunities
Johanna Fleckenstein, Débora B. Maehler, Steffen Pötzschke, Howard Ramos and Paul Pritchard - Language as a Predictor and an Outcome of Acculturation: A Review of Research on Refugee Children and Youth
Michael Filsecker and Hermann Josef Abs - Attitudes Towards Refugees. A Case Study on the Unfolding Approach to Scale Construction
Ericka Galegher - Refugee Experiences in Higher Education: Female Perspectives from Egypt
III. International Large-Scale Assessments and Education Policy
Nina Jude and Janna Teltemann - International Large-Scale Assessments - (How) Do They Influence Educational Policies and Practices?
Kerstin Martens and Dennis Niemann - Lost in Translation? Local Governance and Policy Responses to International Large-Scale Assessments
Lluís Parcerisa, Clara Fontdevila and Antoni Verger - Understanding the PISA Influence on National Education Policies: A Focus on Policy Transfer Mechanisms
David C. Miller and Frank T. Fonseca - An Average Is Just an Average: What Do We Know About Countries' Low- and High-Performing Students in Mathematics?
IV. The Management and Use of Digital Data in Education
Sieglinde Jornitz and Laura C. Engel - The Management and Use of Data in Education and Education Policy: Introductory Remarks
Sigrid Hartong - Digital Education Governance and the Productive Relationalities of School Monitoring Infrastructures
Steven Lewis - Data, Diagnosis and Prescription: Governing Schooling through the OECD's PISA for Schools
Bernard Veldkamp, Kim Schildkamp, Merel Keijsers, Adrie Visscher and Ton de Jong - Big Data Analytics in Education: Big Challenges and Big Opportunities
Elmar Souvignier, Natalie Förster, Karin Hebbecker and Birgit Schütze - Using Digital Data to Support Teaching Practice - quop: An Effective Web-Based Approach to Monitor Student Learning Progress in Reading and Mathematics in Entire Classrooms
V. Economization of Education
Marcelo Parreira do Amaral and Paul R. Fossum - Education Gone Global: Economization, Commodification, Privatization and Standardization
Sabine Hornberg - Agents of Privatization: International Baccalaureate Schools as Transnational Educational Spaces in National Education Systems
Alexandra Ioannidou and Annabel Jenner - Regulation in a Contested Space: Economization and Standardization in Adult and Continuing Education
VI. Challenges of Translation in Educational Research
Norm Friesen - The Necessity of Translation in Education: Theory and Practice
Kathrin Berdelmann - When Dictionaries are not Enough: Translational Challenges of Conceptual Historical German Terms in Educational Research
Inés Dussel - Translating Research: Tensions and Challenges of Moving Between and Through Research Practices
Britta Upsing and Musab Hayatli - The Challen

An exchange on education ideas has shaped the transatlantic discourse in education for a long time. Over the past two decades education science has increasingly become networked internationally. Since 2015, the Office for International Cooperation in Education at DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education has organized international sessions on education research at the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association, thus providing a floor for transatlantic exchange on current research topics. The volume gives an overview of the transatlantic activities in education research with regard to these sessions representing a collection of topics ranging from school development over the use of large scale assessment and digital data in education to questions related to migration and public education or the economization of education. At the same time the volume offers a reflection on the assets and obstacles of international exchange.