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Paul Peterson
Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government
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ppeterso@gov.harvard.edu
617-495-8312
617-496-4428
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CGIS N433
1737 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
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On leave Spring 2006. |
Biographical Note:
Paul 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 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 over one hundred articles and twenty-two books, including No Child Left Behind? The Politics and Practice of School Accountability (Brookings, 2003); The Future of School Choice ( Hoover, 2003); Our Schools and our Future...Are We Still At Risk? (Hoover, 2003); The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (Brookings, 2002); Charters, Vouchers, and Public Education (Brookings, 2001) ; Earning and Learning: How Schools Matter (Brookings, 1999); Learning From School Choice (Brookings, 1998); The Politics of School Reform: 1870-1940 (University of Chicago, 1985) ; School Politics Chicago Style (University of Chicago, 1976) ; City Limits (University of Chicago, 1981) ; The New Urban Reality (Brookings, 1985) ; The Urban Underclass (Brookings, 1991) ; The Price of Federalism (Brookings, 1995); and Welfare Magnets (Brookings, 1990). Three of his books have received major awards from the American Political Science Association. 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, 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. His various research projects have been supported by the Department of Education as well as the Achelis, Bradley, Bodman, Casey, Dillon, Ford, Fordham, Friedman, Gund, Hume, Packard, Olin, Rockefeller, Smith-Richardson, and Walton foundations. Most recently he was awarded the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation prize for Distinguished Scholarship, part of their 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 law.
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