- Work over Welfare: The Inside Story of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law
- Models for Analysis of Social Policy: An Introduction (Child and Family Policy)
- Investing in Children: Work, Education, and Social Policy in Two Rich Countries
- School Readiness: Closing the Racial and Ethnic Gaps (The Future of Children, Vol. 15, No. 1: Spring 2005) (Future of Children)
- Policies for America's Public Schools: Teacher, Equity and Indicators (Child and Family Policy)