| Performing cultural work in demographically changing schools: Implications for expanding transformative leadership frameworks CW Cooper Educational Administration Quarterly 45 (5), 694-724, 2009 | 423 | 2009 |
| Parent involvement, African American mothers, and the politics of educational care CW Cooper Equity & Excellence in Education 42 (4), 379-394, 2009 | 307 | 2009 |
| Beyond the rhetoric of charter school reform: A study of ten California school districts AS Wells, L Artiles, S Carnochan, CW Cooper, C Grutzik, JJ Holme, ... Los Angeles: UCLA Charter School Study, 1998 | 209 | 1998 |
| School choice as ‘motherwork’: valuing African‐American women’s educational advocacy and resistance CW Cooper International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 20 (5), 491-512, 2007 | 195 | 2007 |
| Evaluating parent empowerment: A look at the potential of social justice evaluation in education C Cooper, C Christie The Teachers College Record 107 (10), 2248-2274, 2005 | 163 | 2005 |
| School choice and the standpoint of African American mothers: Considering the power of positionality CW Cooper The Journal of Negro Education, 174-189, 2005 | 155 | 2005 |
| The Detrimental Impact of Teacher Bias: Lessons Learned from the Standpoint of African American Mothers. CW Cooper Teacher Education Quarterly 30 (2), 101-116, 2003 | 146 | 2003 |
| Twenty-first-century motherhood: Experience, identity, policy, agency A O'Reilly Columbia University Press, 2010 | 131 | 2010 |
| Leading and Learning with Diverse Families in Schools: Critical Epistemology amid Communities of Practice. CW Cooper, CJ Riehl, AL Hasan Journal of School Leadership 20 (6), 758-788, 2010 | 106 | 2010 |
| The Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Equity and Diversity LC Tillman, JJ Scheurich Routledge, 2013 | 87 | 2013 |
| Charter Schools and Racial and Social Class Segregation: Yet Another Sorting Machine? AS Wells, JJ Holme, A Lopez, CW Cooper A notion at risk: Preserving public education as an engine for social …, 2000 | 78 | 2000 |
| Enacting critical care and transformative leadership in schools highly impacted by poverty: an African-American principal’s counter narrative CM Wilson International Journal of Leadership in Education, 1-21, 2015 | 46 | 2015 |
| Refining Social Justice Through Collaborative Inquiry: Key Rewards and Challenges for Teacher Educators CW Cooper Teacher Education Quarterly 33 (3), 2006 | 46 | 2006 |
| Supporting African American Student Success Through Prophetic Activism New Possibilities for Public School–Church Partnerships DH Jordan, CM Wilson Urban Education, 0042085914566098, 2015 | 40 | 2015 |
| Recasting Border Crossing Politics and Pedagogies to Combat Educational Inequity: Experiences, Identities, and Perceptions of Latino/a Immigrant Youth CM Wilson, LD Ek, TRMO Douglas The Urban Review 46 (1), 1-24, 2014 | 38 | 2014 |
| Starting with African-American success: A strength-based approach to transformative educational leadership CM Wilson, TMO Douglas, C Nganga Handbook of research on educational leadership for equity and diversity, 111-133, 2013 | 38 | 2013 |
| ‘Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?’’Facing identity politics and resistance when teaching for social justice CW Cooper, CP Gause Keeping the promise: Essays on leadership, democracy, and education, 197-216, 2007 | 36 | 2007 |
| New perspectives in educational leadership: Exploring social, political, and community contexts and meaning SD Horsford Peter Lang, 2010 | 35 | 2010 |
| Refusing Detroit's Public School Failure: African American Women's Educational Advocacy and Critical Care versus the Politics of Disposability. CM Wilson education policy analysis archives 23, 2015 | 34 | 2015 |
| Black Educational Activism for Community Empowerment: International Leadership Perspectives C Wilson, L Johnson International Journal of Multicultural Education 17 (1), pp. 102-120, 2015 | 34 | 2015 |
