Scholarships, Fellowships and Honors

2016 Walton Family Foundation Prize for Best Academic Paper on School Choice and Reform, Association for Education Finance and Policy
2015 The Star Family Prize for Excellence in Advising
2010 Martha Derthick Best Book Award for The Price of Federalism, American Political Science Association
2003 The Thomas B. Fordham Prize for Distinguished Scholarship
1996-1997 Fellow, Center for the Advanced Study of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California
1996 Aaron Wildavsky Award for best book in public policy, Policy Studies Section, American Political Science Association
1996 Norton Long Career Achievement Award, Urban Politics Section, American Political Science Association
1996 Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1994 Stephen Bailey Award for Outstanding Contributions to Politics of Education, American Educational Research Association
1990 Donald Stone Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Study of Federalism, American Public Administration Association
1984 Elected to National Academy of Education
1982 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, American Political Science Association Award for best book published in 1981 in politics, government or international relations
1977 - 1978 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1977 - 1978 German Marshall Fund of the United States Fellowship
1977 Gladys Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association Award for best book published in 1976 on United States national policy
1968 - 1969 North Atlantic Treaty Organization Postdoctoral Fellowship
1966 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship
1965 Russell Sage Foundation Fellowship for the Study of Urban Politics
1963 - 1965 National Opinion Research Center Training Fellowship
1962 - 1963 Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
1958 - 1962 National Merit Scholarship