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In their new NBER study, “The Unwavering SES Achievement Gap: Trends in U.S. Student Performance,” Eric Hanushek, Paul Peterson, M. Danish Shakeel, Laura Talpey and Ludger Woessmann conclude, Two startling…
In Education Next and The 74, Albert Cheng and Paul Peterson discuss the latest polling trends related to support for public charter schools. (See figures below.) The survey results below…
Harvard government professor Paul Peterson explains in a National Review Online column that the Obama administration has gained little public support for its efforts to turn school discipline into a…
The answer to that question is “yes” and “no” and “maybe.” In some states (Georgia and Alabama), Common Core is an improvement. In other states (Massachusetts, Tennessee, and Missouri), Common…
View in your browser. Welcome This summer, three important school choice studies were published. All three conclude that choice raises student achievement for children in participating families. In this week’s…
Paul Peterson, William Howell, and Martin West have some bad news for the Left. In a poll conducted by Harvard University’s Program on Education Policy and Governance and the journal…
I have read a number of responses to President Obama’s State of the Union address, and I preferred Harvard professor Paul Peterson’s succinct (and relatively jargon free) commentary. Enjoy. Due…
Despite opposition from the NAACP and the National Urban League, African-Americans overwhelmingly support charter schools. Today’s Wall Street Journal carries an enlightening piece from Paul Peterson of Harvard’s Program on…
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Harvard University professor Paul Peterson argues that charter school competition is good for district school systems. Twentieth century economist Joseph Schumpeter saw it another…
Nathan Glazer reviews Gerald Grant’s “Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There are No Bad Schools in Raleigh” for the new issue of Education Next. I find Glazer’s…
Seems North Carolina?s incentives to the movie industry produced one that is causing a ?little? controversy. The movie ?Hound Dog? shown at the Sundance Film Festival this week pushes the…
Critics of the Bush administration had a field day, or two, or three a while back when the U.S. Department of Education released a long-delayed report that purported to show…