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Profile
Paul E.
Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck
Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education
Policy and Governance at Harvard University and Editor in Chief of
Education Next, a journal of opinion and research on
education policy. He is a former Director of the Center for
American Political Studies at Harvard University and of the
Governmental Studies program at the Brookings Institution. Peterson
is the author or editor of more than 100 articles and 22 books.
After receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago, he was a
professor for many years there in the Departments of Political
Science and Education. Peterson chaired the Social Science Research
Council's Committee on the Urban Underclass and has served on many
committees of the National Research Council of the National Academy
of Sciences. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences and the National Academy of Education and has received
fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the German Marshall
Foundation, and the Center for Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Most recently he was awarded the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation prize
for Distinguished Scholarship, part of its Excellence in Education
award program. He has also been appointed to a Department of
Education independent review panel to advise the agency in
evaluating the No Child Left Behind Act.
Courses
Not Offered
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HLE-348
The Political Economy of the School
Fall
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HLE-347
The Politics of American Education
Media Expertise
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Research
Research for a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.
Selected Publication Citations:
- Academic Journals
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Howell, William G., Martin R. West, and Paul E. Peterson. "What
Americans Think About Their Schools: The 2007 Education Next - PEPG
Survey." Education Next 7.3 (Summer 2007).
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Peterson, Paul E. "The Entrepreneurs and the New Commission:
Changing Minds in the Education Establishment." Education
Next 7.2 (Spring 2007): 5.
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Peterson, Paul E., and Elena Llaudet. "The NCES Private-Public
School Study: Findings are Other than They Seem." Education
Next 7.1 (Winter 2007): 75-79.
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West, Martin R., and Paul E. Peterson. "The Efficacy of Choice
Threats Within School Accountability Systems: Results from
Legislatively Induced Experiments." Economic Journal 116.510
(March 2006): C46-C62.
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Peterson, Paul E. "The Case for Curriculum-Based, External
Examinations That Have Significant Consequences for Students."
Peabody Journal of Education 82.4 (2007): 645-666.
- Book Chapters
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Peterson, Paul E. "The A+ Plan." Reforming Education in Florida:
A Study Prepared by the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education. Ed.
Paul E. Peterson. Hoover Institution, 2006.
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Peterson, Paul E., Nathan Torinus and Brad Smith. "School Choice in
Milwaukee Fifteen Years Later." Charter Schools Against the
Odds: An Assessment of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education.
Ed. Paul T. Hill. Education Next Books, 2006.
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Peterson, Paul E. "Productivity of Public and Private Schools."
Courting Failure: How School Finance Lawsuits Exploit Judges'
Good Intentions and Harm our Children. Ed. Eric Hanushek.
Hoover Press, 2006.
- Books
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Howell, William G., and Paul E. Peterson, with Patrick J. Wolf and
David E. Campbell. The Education Gap: Vouchers And Urban
Schools, Revised Edition. Brookings Institution, 2006.
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Fiorina, Morris P., Paul E. Peterson, Bertram Johnson, and William
G. Mayer. The New American Democracy, 5th Edition.
Pearson/Longman, 2006.
- Edited Volumes
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West, Martin R., and Paul E. Peterson, eds. School Money Trials:
The Legal Pursuit of Educational Adequacy. Brookings
Institution, 2007.
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Peterson, Paul E., ed. Reforming Education in Florida: A Study
Prepared by the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education. Hoover
Institution, 2006.
- Magazine and Newspaper Articles
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Peterson, Paul E. "Keeping Education Accountable." Harvard
Crimson February 6, 2007.
- Op-Eds
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Peterson, Paul E. "America's Education Industrial Complex." New
York Sun, May 9, 2008.
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Peterson, Paul E., and Matthew Chingos. "Educational Rewards."
Wall Street Journal, November 7, 2007.
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Peterson, Paul E. "School Choice and Racial Balance." Wall
Street Journal, July 24, 2007.
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Peterson, Paul E. "The Philadelphia Story." Wall Street
Journal, February 23, 2007.
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Peterson, Paul E. "Keeping Education Accountable." Harvard
Crimson, February 6, 2007.
- Research Papers/Reports
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Peterson, Paul E., and Matthew M. Chingos. "Impact of For-Profit
and Non-Profit Management on Student Achievement: The Philadelphia
Experiment." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP07-055,
November 2007.