No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965-2005 (University Press of Kansas, 2006).

“Equity Meets Accountability: New Jersey and the Implementation of No Child Left Behind,” in Frederick Hess and Chester Finn, ed.  Fixing Failing Schools: How Are the NCLB Remedies Actually Working?

“The Era of Education: Is it Beginning or Ending?” Reviews in American History, Forthcoming

“The Policy Landscape of Educational Entrepreneurship,” in Frederick Hess, ed.  Educational Entrepreneurship: Realities, Challenges, and Possibilities. Harvard Education Press, 2006.
 
“Swing Issues and Policy Regimes: Federal Education Policy and the Politics of Policy Change.”  Journal of Policy History.  Spring 2006.

“The National Schoolmarm: No Child Left Behind and the New Educational Federalism.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 35, Number 1, Winter 2005.
 
“Freedom From Ignorance?  The Great Society and the Evolution of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act,” in Sidney Milkis and Jerome Mileur, ed. The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism. University of Massachusetts Press.  September, 2005.  (With Frederick Hess). 

“Muffled By the Din: The Competitive Non-Effects of the Cleveland Voucher Program,” Teachers College Record Volume 104, Number 4, 2002, pages 727-764. (With Frederick Hess).

“Seeking the Mantle of ‘Opportunity’: Presidential Politics and the Educational Metaphor, 1964-2000.”  Educational Policy (Volume 16, Number 1, 2002, pages 72-95).  (With Frederick Hess).

“Civic Education Reconsidered.”  The Public Interest Fall Issue, Number 133, 1998, pages 84-104).  (With James Ceaser).