| School readiness and later achievement. GJ Duncan, CJ Dowsett, A Claessens, K Magnuson, AC Huston, ... Developmental psychology 43 (6), 1428, 2007 | 7928 | 2007 |
| Early predictors of high school mathematics achievement RS Siegler, GJ Duncan, PE Davis-Kean, K Duckworth, A Claessens, ... Psychological science 23 (7), 691-697, 2012 | 1160 | 2012 |
| How Important Is Where You Start? Early Mathematics Knowledge and Later School Success. A Claessens, M Engel Teachers College Record 115 (6), n6, 2013 | 707 | 2013 |
| Kindergarten skills and fifth-grade achievement: Evidence from the ECLS-K A Claessens, G Duncan, M Engel Economics of Education Review 28 (4), 415-427, 2009 | 664 | 2009 |
| The grasshopper and the ant: Motivational responses of low-achieving students to high-stakes testing M Roderick, M Engel Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 23 (3), 197-227, 2001 | 359 | 2001 |
| Teaching students what they already know? The (mis) alignment between mathematics instructional content and student knowledge in kindergarten M Engel, A Claessens, MA Finch Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 35 (2), 157-178, 2013 | 341 | 2013 |
| Academic content, student learning, and the persistence of preschool effects A Claessens, M Engel, FC Curran American Educational Research Journal 51 (2), 403-434, 2014 | 245 | 2014 |
| Replication and robustness in developmental research. GJ Duncan, M Engel, A Claessens, CJ Dowsett Developmental psychology 50 (11), 2417, 2014 | 230 | 2014 |
| New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply M Engel, BA Jacob, FC Curran American Educational Research Journal 51 (1), 36-72, 2014 | 166 | 2014 |
| Mathematics Content Coverage and Student Learning in Kindergarten M Engel, A Claessens, T Watts, G Farkas Educational Researcher, 2016 | 143 | 2016 |
| Problematic preferences? A mixed method examination of principals’ preferences for teacher characteristics in Chicago M Engel Educational Administration Quarterly 49 (1), 52-91, 2013 | 115 | 2013 |
| Localism and Teacher Labor Markets: How Geography and Decision-Making May Contribute to Inequality M Engel, M., & Cannata Peabody Journal of Education 90 (1), 84-92, 2015 | 114 | 2015 |
| The Effects of Maternal Depression on Child Outcomes during the First Years of Formal Schooling A Claessens, M Engel, FC Curran Early Childhood Research Quarterly 32 (3), 80-93, 2015 | 107 | 2015 |
| Staffing the Classroom: How urban principals find teachers and make hiring decisions M Engel, M Finch Leadership and Policy in School 14 (1), 12-41, 2015 | 94 | 2015 |
| The role of mediators in the development of longitudinal mathematics achievement associations TW Watts, GJ Duncan, M Chen, A Claessens, PE Davis‐Kean, ... Child development 86 (6), 1892-1907, 2015 | 90 | 2015 |
| Ending Social Promotion: Results from Summer Bridge. Charting Reform in Chicago Series. M Roderick, M Engel, J Nagaoka Consortium on Chicago School Research, 1313 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, 2003 | 67 | 2003 |
| Toward Understanding Principals’ Hiring Practices M Engel, FC Curran Journal of Educational Administration 54 (2), 173-190, 2016 | 64 | 2016 |
| Does Charter Status Determine Preferences? Comparing the Hiring Preferences of Charter and Traditional Public School Principals M Cannata, M Engel Education Finance and Policy 7 (4), 455-488, 2012 | 53 | 2012 |
| Same old, same old? Students’ experiences of grade retention under Chicago’s ending social promotion policy S Stone, M Engel American Journal of Education 113 (4), 605-634, 2007 | 51 | 2007 |
| How important is where you start A Claessens, M Engel Early mathematics, 2013 | 50 | 2013 |
