| City limits PE Peterson Boston/Little&Brown, 1981 | 4508 | 1981 |
| The price of federalism PE Peterson Rowman & Littlefield, 2012 | 1407 | 2012 |
| The urban underclass C Jencks, PE Peterson Brookings Institution Press, 2001 | 952 | 2001 |
| The education gap: Vouchers and urban schools WG Howell, PE Peterson Rowman & Littlefield, 2006 | 763 | 2006 |
| When federalism works PE Peterson, BG Rabe, KK Wong Brookings Institution Press, 2010 | 542 | 2010 |
| It's easier to pick a good teacher than to train one: Familiar and new results on the correlates of teacher effectiveness MM Chingos, PE Peterson Economics of Education Review 30 (3), 449-465, 2011 | 422 | 2011 |
| No child left behind?: The politics and practice of school accountability PE Peterson, MR West Rowman & Littlefield, 2003 | 414 | 2003 |
| Welfare magnets: A new case for a national standard PE Peterson, MC Rom Brookings Institution Press, 2010 | 388 | 2010 |
| Race and authority in urban politics: community relations and the War on Poverty D Greenstone, PE Peterson University of Chicago Press, 1976 | 376 | 1976 |
| Effectiveness of school choice: The Milwaukee experiment JP Greene, PE Peterson, J Du Education and Urban Society 31 (2), 190-213, 1999 | 348 | 1999 |
| The Achievement Gap FAILS TO CLOSE: Half century of testing shows persistent divide between haves and have-nots. EA Hanushek, PE Peterson, LM Talpey, L Woessmann Education next 19 (3), 2019 | 337 | 2019 |
| School vouchers and academic performance: Results from three randomized field trials WG Howell, PJ Wolf, DE Campbell, PE Peterson Journal of Policy Analysis and management 21 (2), 191-217, 2002 | 332 | 2002 |
| School politics Chicago style. PE Peterson University of Chicago Press, 5801 Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, 1976 | 326 | 1976 |
| American federalism, welfare policy, and residential choices PE Peterson, M Rom American Political Science Review 83 (3), 711-728, 1989 | 309 | 1989 |
| The politics of school reform, 1870-1940 PE Peterson University of Chicago Press, 1985 | 294 | 1985 |
| The urban underclass and the poverty paradox PE Peterson The Politics of Race, 359-374, 2016 | 249 | 2016 |
| The efficacy of choice threats within school accountability systems: Results from legislatively induced experiments MR West, PE Peterson The Economic Journal 116 (510), C46-C62, 2006 | 246 | 2006 |
| School Choice in New York City after Three Years: An Evaluation of the School Choice Scholarships Program. Final Report. DP Mayer, PE Peterson, DE Myers, CC Tuttle, WG Howell For full text: http://www. ksg. harvard. edu/pepg/pdf/nyc% 20yr3% 20MPR PEPG …, 2002 | 196 | 2002 |
| Saving schools: From Horace Mann to virtual learning PE Peterson Harvard University Press, 2011 | 191 | 2011 |
| Rom. 1990 PE Peterson, C Mark Welfare magnets: A new case for a national standard, 0 | 181 | |
