The essays in this book try to separate the truth about poverty, social dislocation, and changes in America family life from the myths that have become part of contemporary folklore. These essays also show the reasons for poverty among children, demonstrate that the main issue is not so much a growth in the size of the underclass as the persistence of poverty decades after the country thought it had addressed the problem, and they point out the paradox of poverty in a wealthy nation will continue until society makes greater efforts to provide all citizens with improved educational and economic opportunities as well as adequate income maintenance in times of need.
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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.
Peterson is a former director of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University and of the Governmental Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. He received his Ph. D. in political science from the University of Chicago. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and 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.
He is the author of the book, Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010). For more information see savingschools.net.
He is also the author or editor of numerous other publications including the following:
* School Choice International: Exploring public private partnerships (co-editor with Rajashri Chakrabarti)
* School Money Trials: The Legal Pursuit of Educational Adequacy (co-editor with Martin R. West)
* Reforming Education in Florida: A Study Prepared by the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education (editor)
* The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (with William G. Howell)
* Generational Change: Closing the Test Score Gap (editor)
* No Child Left Behind? The Politics and Practice of School Accountability (co-editor with Martin R. West)
* The Future of School Choice (editor)
* Our Schools and our Future (editor)
* City Limits
* The Urban Underclass (co-edited with Christopher Jencks)
* Price of Federalism
* Welfare Magnets (with Mark C. Rom)
* The New American Democracy (with Morris P. Fiorina, Bertram Johnson, and William G. Mayer)
Four of his books have received major awards from the American Political Science Association. Most recently, he was awarded the Martha Derthick Best Book Award for The Price of Federalism. The award is presented to the author of a book published at least ten years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations.
Peterson is a member of the independent review panel advising the Department of Education's evaluation of the No Child Left Behind law and a member of the Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force of K-12 Education at Stanford University. 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.
Contact:
79 JFK Street
Taubman 306
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-8312/7976
ppeterso@gov.harvard.edu
savingschools.net
Peterson is a former director of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University and of the Governmental Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. He received his Ph. D. in political science from the University of Chicago. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and 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.
He is the author of the book, Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010). For more information see savingschools.net.
He is also the author or editor of numerous other publications including the following:
* School Choice International: Exploring public private partnerships (co-editor with Rajashri Chakrabarti)
* School Money Trials: The Legal Pursuit of Educational Adequacy (co-editor with Martin R. West)
* Reforming Education in Florida: A Study Prepared by the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education (editor)
* The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (with William G. Howell)
* Generational Change: Closing the Test Score Gap (editor)
* No Child Left Behind? The Politics and Practice of School Accountability (co-editor with Martin R. West)
* The Future of School Choice (editor)
* Our Schools and our Future (editor)
* City Limits
* The Urban Underclass (co-edited with Christopher Jencks)
* Price of Federalism
* Welfare Magnets (with Mark C. Rom)
* The New American Democracy (with Morris P. Fiorina, Bertram Johnson, and William G. Mayer)
Four of his books have received major awards from the American Political Science Association. Most recently, he was awarded the Martha Derthick Best Book Award for The Price of Federalism. The award is presented to the author of a book published at least ten years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations.
Peterson is a member of the independent review panel advising the Department of Education's evaluation of the No Child Left Behind law and a member of the Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force of K-12 Education at Stanford University. 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.
Contact:
79 JFK Street
Taubman 306
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-8312/7976
ppeterso@gov.harvard.edu
savingschools.net
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