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About Paul E. Peterson
- Paul E.
- Peterson is a leading scholar on education reform.
- His work has largely focused on the importance of parental choice for improving school outcomes.
- He is Editor-In-Chief of Education Next, an educational policy journal published by the Hoover Institution advocating for K-12 education reform in the United States.
- He is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.Peterson is the author or editor of over one hundred articles and thirty-plus books including: School Money Trials: The Legal Pursuit of Educational Adequacy (Brookings, 2007); The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools, Revised Edition (Brookings, 2006); and Our Schools and our Future...Are We Still At Risk? (Hoover Institution Press, 2003).
- Three other of his books (School Politics, Chicago Style; City Limits; and The Price of Federalism) received major awards from the American Political Science Association.He received his PhD from the University of Chicago and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Education.
- The Editorial Projects in Education Research Center reported that Peterson's studies on school choice and vouchers were among the country's most influential studies of education policy.
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