| Performing cultural work in demographically changing schools: Implications for expanding transformative leadership frameworks CW Cooper Educational Administration Quarterly 45 (5), 694-724, 2009 | 508 | 2009 |
| Parent involvement, African American mothers, and the politics of educational care CW Cooper Equity & Excellence in Education 42 (4), 379-394, 2009 | 384 | 2009 |
| 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 | 230 | 2007 |
| 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 | 216 | 1998 |
| School choice and the standpoint of African American mothers: Considering the power of positionality CW Cooper The Journal of Negro Education, 174-189, 2005 | 185 | 2005 |
| Twenty-first-century motherhood: Experience, identity, policy, agency A O'Reilly Columbia University Press, 2010 | 176 | 2010 |
| Evaluating parent empowerment: A look at the potential of social justice evaluation in education CW Cooper, CA Christie Teachers College Record 107 (10), 2248-2274, 2005 | 173 | 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 | 169 | 2003 |
| Handbook of research on educational leadership for equity and diversity LC Tillman, JJ Scheurich Routledge, 2013 | 115 | 2013 |
| 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 | 115 | 2010 |
| 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 | 81 | 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 19 (5), 557-577, 2016 | 76 | 2016 |
| Black Educational Activism for Community Empowerment: International Leadership Perspectives C Wilson, L Johnson International Journal of Multicultural Education 17 (1), pp. 102-120, 2015 | 56 | 2015 |
| Supporting African American student success through prophetic activism: New possibilities for public school–church partnerships DH Jordan, CM Wilson Urban Education 52 (1), 91-119, 2017 | 52 | 2017 |
| Refining Social Justice Through Collaborative Inquiry: Key Rewards and Challenges for Teacher Educators CW Cooper Teacher Education Quarterly 33 (3), 2006 | 51 | 2006 |
| New perspectives in educational leadership: Exploring social, political, and community contexts and meaning SD Horsford Peter Lang, 2010 | 45 | 2010 |
| 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 | 43 | 2013 |
| 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, 1-24, 2014 | 41 | 2014 |
| 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, 125-125, 2015 | 40 | 2015 |
| ‘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 | 38 | 2007 |
