| Preparing for power: America's elite boarding schools PW Cookson Jr, CH Persell Basic Books, 2008 | 1217 | 2008 |
| School choice: The struggle for the soul of American education PW Cookson Yale University Press, 1995 | 629 | 1995 |
| Restarting and Reinventing School: Learning in the Time of COVID and Beyond. L Darling-Hammond, A Schachner, AK Edgerton Learning Policy Institute, 2020 | 266 | 2020 |
| Chartering and bartering: Elite education and social reproduction CH Persell, PW Cookson Jr Social Problems 33 (2), 114-129, 1985 | 204 | 1985 |
| Differential asset conversion: Class and gendered pathways to selective colleges CH Persell, S Catsambis, PW Cookson Jr Sociology of Education, 208-225, 1992 | 159 | 1992 |
| The effective principal in action CH Persell, P Cookson The effective principal: A research summary, 22-29, 1982 | 159 | 1982 |
| The politics of school choice research: Fact, fiction, and statistics JM Powers, PW Cookson Jr Educational Policy 13 (1), 104-122, 1999 | 125 | 1999 |
| The Choice Controversy. PW Cookson Jr Corwin Press, Inc., 2455 Teller Road, Newbury Park, CA 91320 (paperback …, 1992 | 115 | 1992 |
| English and American residential secondary schools: A comparative study of the reproduction of social elites PW Cookson Jr, CH Persell Comparative Education Review 29 (3), 283-298, 1985 | 84 | 1985 |
| Expect miracles: Charter schools and the politics of hope and despair P Cookson Routledge, 2018 | 79 | 2018 |
| The power discourse: elite narratives and educational policy formation PW Cookson Researching the powerful in education, 116-130, 2013 | 63 | 2013 |
| Goals 2000: Framework for the new educational federalism PW Cookson Jr Teachers College Record 96 (3), 1-13, 1995 | 62 | 1995 |
| Microcomputers and elite boarding schools: Educational innovation and social reproduction CH Persell, PW Cookson Jr Sociology of Education, 123-134, 1987 | 60 | 1987 |
| The ideology of consumership and the coming deregulation of the public school system PW Cookson Jr Journal of education policy 7 (3), 301-311, 1992 | 56 | 1992 |
| Preparing for power: Twenty-five years later PW Cookson Jr, CH Persell Educating elites: Class privilege and educational advantage, 13-30, 2010 | 54 | 2010 |
| Implementing educational reform: Sociological perspectives on educational policy KM Borman (No Title), 1996 | 54 | 1996 |
| Family background, school type, and college attendance: A conjoint system of cultural capital transmission CH Persell, S Catsambis, PW Cookson, Jr Journal of Research on Adolescence 2 (1), 1-23, 1992 | 50 | 1992 |
| Your First Year-One Mind at a Time. PW Cookson Jr Teaching Pre K-8 36 (4), 14-16, 2006 | 46* | 2006 |
| Choosing schools: Vouchers and American education JJ Hanus, PW Cookson (No Title), 1996 | 44 | 1996 |
| International Handbook of Educational Reform. PW Cookson Jr Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 88 Post Road West, Box 5007, Westport, CT …, 1992 | 44 | 1992 |
