Paul E. Peterson

Paul E. Peterson is a leading scholar on education reform. [ [http://www.educationsector.org/analysis/analysis_show.htm?doc_id=367310 Education Sector: Analysis and Perspectives: Market Forces: Professor Paul Peterson's Influential Protégés ] ] 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 designed to bring a balanced perspective on research and policy. [ [http://www.hoover.org/publications/ednext/about Hoover Institution - About Education Next ] ] He holds academic appointments at Harvard University (where he is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance) and at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University(where he is a senior fellow) [http://www.gov.harvard.edu/faculty/ppeterson] [ [http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/pepg/bios/PEP.htm PEPG People: Paul E. Peterson ] ] [ [http://www.hoover.org/bios/ppeterson.html Hoover Institution - Fellows - Paul E. Peterson ] ] . 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 G
[http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/pepg/PDF/CV/PEP_Long_CV.pdf June 1998 ] ]

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. [ [http://www.edweek.org/rc/articles/2006/12/13/influentials.html?qs=influentials Research Center: Influence: A Study of the Factors Shaping Education Policy ] ]

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