| No Child Left Behind and the transformation of federal education policy, 1965-2005 PJ McGuinn University Press of Kansas, 2006 | 762 | 2006 |
| Stimulating reform: Race to the Top, competitive grants and the Obama education agenda P McGuinn Educational Policy 26 (1), 136-159, 2012 | 517 | 2012 |
| From no child left behind to the every student succeeds act: Federalism and the education legacy of the Obama administration P McGuinn Publius: The Journal of Federalism 46 (3), 392-415, 2016 | 327 | 2016 |
| The new politics of education: Analyzing the federal education policy landscape in the post-NCLB era E DeBray-Pelot, P McGuinn Educational Policy 23 (1), 15-42, 2009 | 283 | 2009 |
| The state of teacher evaluation reform P McGuinn | 117 | 2012 |
| Schooling the state: ESEA and the evolution of the US Department of Education P McGuinn RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 1 (3), 77-94, 2015 | 101 | 2015 |
| The politics of the Common Core assessments: Why states are quitting the PARCC and Smarter Balanced testing consortia A Jochim, P McGuinn Education Next 16 (4), 44-53, 2016 | 91 | 2016 |
| Education governance for the twenty-first century: Overcoming the structural barriers to school reform P Manna, P McGuinn Rowman & Littlefield, 2013 | 89 | 2013 |
| The national schoolmarm: No Child Left Behind and the new educational federalism P McGuinn Publius: The Journal of Federalism 35 (1), 41-68, 2005 | 83 | 2005 |
| States as change agents under ESSA J Weiss, P McGuinn Phi Delta Kappan 97 (8), 28-33, 2016 | 82 | 2016 |
| Seeking the mantle of" opportunity": Presidential politics and the educational metaphor, 1964-2000 FM Hess, PJ McGuinn Educational Policy 16 (1), 72-95, 2002 | 61 | 2002 |
| Swing issues and policy regimes: Federal education policy and the politics of policy change P McGuinn Journal of Policy History 18 (2), 205-240, 2006 | 57 | 2006 |
| Fight club: Are advocacy organizations changing the politics of education P McGuinn Education next 12 (3), 25-31, 2012 | 51 | 2012 |
| Ringing the bell for K-12 teacher tenure reform P McGuinn Washington, DC: Center for American Progress, 2010 | 46 | 2010 |
| The Evolving Role of the State Education Agency in the Era of ESSA and Trump: Past, Present, and Uncertain Future. CPRE Working Paper. WP# 2017-1. J Weiss, P McGuinn Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2017 | 38 | 2017 |
| Education governance in America: Who leads when everyone is in charge P McGuinn, P Manna Education governance for the twenty-first century: Overcoming the structural …, 2013 | 36 | 2013 |
| Presidential policymaking: Race to the top, executive power, and the Obama education agenda P McGuinn The Forum 12 (1), 61-79, 2014 | 35 | 2014 |
| Creating cover and constructing capacity: Assessing the origins, evolution, and impact of Race to the Top P McGuinn Education Stimulus Watch Special Report 6, 2010 | 35 | 2010 |
| Freedom from ignorance? The Great Society and the evolution of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 P McGuinn, F Hess The great society and the high tide of liberalism, 289-329, 2005 | 34 | 2005 |
| Muffled by the din: The competitive noneffects of the Cleveland voucher program FM Hess, PJ McGUINN Teachers College Record 104 (4), 727-764, 2002 | 31 | 2002 |
