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Paul E. Peterson

Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government, Harvard University
Director, Program on Education Policy and Governance

Taubman 306, Harvard Kennedy School 15 Eliot Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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    Paul E. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and Senior Editor of Education Next, a journal of opinion and research.

    He received his Ph. D. in political science from the University of Chicago. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Education, he has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the German Marshall Foundation, and the Center for Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is an author or editor of over 30 books, four of which have been identified as the best work in its field by the American Political Science Association.

    Peterson was a member of the independent review panel advising the Department of Education’s evaluation of the No Child Left Behind law and a member of the Hoover Institution’s Koret Task Force of K-12 Education at Stanford University. The Editorial Projects in Education Research Center reported that Peterson’s studies on school choice and vouchers have been among the country’s most influential studies of education policy.

     

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  • Pandemic Parent Survey Finds Perverse Pattern: Students Are More Likely to Be Attending School in Person Where Covid Is Spreading More Rapidly
  • Experimentally Estimated Impacts of School Voucher on Educational Attainments of Moderately and Severely Disadvantaged Students
  • The Achievement Gap Fails to Close
  • The War on Poverty Remains a Stalemate
  • The Unwavering SES Achievement Gap: Trends in U.S. Student Performance
  • Public Support Climbs for Teacher Pay, School Expenditures, Charter Schools, and Universal Vouchers
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