| Public goods, private goods: The American struggle over educational goals DF Labaree American educational research journal 34 (1), 39-81, 1997 | 2225 | 1997 |
| The trouble with ed schools DF Labaree Yale University Press, 2006 | 1058 | 2006 |
| How to succeed in school without really learning: The credentials race in American education DF Labaree Yale University Press, 1997 | 900 | 1997 |
| Someone has to fail: The zero-sum game of public schooling DF Labaree Harvard University Press, 2011 | 689 | 2011 |
| The peculiar problems of preparing educational researchers DF Labaree Educational researcher 32 (4), 13-22, 2003 | 675 | 2003 |
| Power, knowledge, and the rationalization of teaching: A genealogy of the movement to professionalize teaching D Labaree Harvard educational review 62 (2), 123-155, 1992 | 628 | 1992 |
| On the nature of teaching and teacher education: Difficult practices that look easy DF Labaree Journal of teacher education 51 (3), 228-233, 2000 | 523 | 2000 |
| An uneasy relationship: The history of teacher education in the university DF Labaree Handbook of research on teacher education, 290-306, 2008 | 487 | 2008 |
| Progressivism, schools and schools of education: An American romance DF Labaree Paedagogica historica 41 (1-2), 275-288, 2005 | 400 | 2005 |
| The making of an American high school: The credentials market and the Central High School of Philadelphia, 1838-1939 DF Labaree Yale University Press, 1988 | 397 | 1988 |
| Educational researchers: Living with a lesser form of knowledge DF Labaree Educational researcher 27 (8), 4-12, 1998 | 308 | 1998 |
| A perfect mess: The unlikely ascendancy of American higher education DF Labaree University of Chicago Press, 2020 | 302 | 2020 |
| The winning ways of a losing strategy: Educationalizing social problems in the United States DF Labaree Educational Theory 58 (4), 447-460, 2008 | 260 | 2008 |
| Teach for America and teacher ed: Heads they win, tails we lose D Labaree Journal of teacher Education 61 (1-2), 48-55, 2010 | 251 | 2010 |
| How Dewey lost: The victory of David Snedden and social efficiency in the reform of American education DF Labaree Pragmatism and modernities, 163-188, 2010 | 157 | 2010 |
| Let's measure what no one teaches: PISA, NCLB, and the shrinking aims of education DF Labaree Teachers College Record 116 (9), 1-14, 2014 | 152 | 2014 |
| Schooling and the making of citizens in the long nineteenth century: Comparative visions D Tröhler, TS Popkewitz, DF Labaree Routledge, 2011 | 152 | 2011 |
| Exit, voice, and loyalty: responses to decline in firms, organizations, and states D Labaree PHI DELTA KAPPAN 103 (2), 70-70, 2021 | 151 | 2021 |
| Setting the standard: Alternative policies for student promotion D Labaree Harvard Educational Review 54 (1), 67-88, 1984 | 141 | 1984 |
| Education, markets, and the public good: The selected works of David F. Labaree DF Labaree (No Title), 2007 | 109 | 2007 |
