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From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning

By Paul E. Peterson

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Martin Morse Wooster in The Washington Times

Established in 1996 under the direction of Paul E. Peterson, the Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) has distinguished itself as a significant contributor to the systematic analysis of education policy and governing arrangements. Located within Harvard University's Government Department and the Kennedy School of Government's Taubman Center for State and Local Government, PEPG continues to fulfill its core missions:

• provide high-level scientific training for young scholars who can make independent contributions to scholarly research;
• foster a national community of reform-minded scientific researchers; and
• produce path-breaking studies that provide a scientific basis for school reform policy.

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Current and Past Issues

Latest Education Next podcast

Virtual Education and Common Core Standards
Paul E. Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk about whether common standards create economies of scale for virtual learning products.

recent conference

June 3-4, 2010
Merit Pay: Will It Work? Is It Politically Viable?
A Conference Organized by The Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance. For more information click here.

PEPG in the news

June 17, 2010
Florida Mandates Classroom Size Reduction
ABCNews.com

June 13, 2010
TAKS grade inflation is nothing new
Houston Chronicle

June 10, 2010
Study: Florida Class-Size Reduction Mandate Does Not Improve Achievement
Heartland.org

June 9, 2010
The mystique of merit pay
Harvard Gazette

recent books and research

Is traditional teaching really all that bad? A within-student between-subject approach
Guido Schwerdt
Amelie C. Wuppermann

It’s Easier to Pick a Good Teacher than to Train One: Familiar and New Results on the Correlates of Teacher Effectiveness
Matthew M. Chingos
Paul E. Peterson

The Impact of a Universal Class-Size Reduction Policy: Evidence from Florida’s Statewide Mandate
Matthew M. Chingos

Do more effective teachers earn more outside of the classroom?
Matthew M. Chingos
Martin R. West

Saving Schools: From Hoarce Mann to Virtual Learning
Paul E. Peterson

press releases and program news

Teacher Effectiveness in Classroom Unrelated to the College Teacher Attended
A new PEPG study finds that a teacher’s effectiveness at lifting student performance in reading and math is unrelated to the preparation teachers have received, whether it is the college they attended, or whether they received a major in education, or earned a master’s degree.
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Florida’s Class-Size Reduction Mandate Did Not Improve Student Achievement
A new PEPG study finds that Florida’s 2002 constitutional amendment mandating a reduction in the size of classes in school districts throughout the state had no discernible impact upon student achievement, either positive or negative.
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