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November 7, 2007
"Educational Rewards"
In this Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, PEPG Director Paul Peterson and PEPG Research Fellow Matthew Chingos present their argument that the profit motive improves schools as their research shows students in Philadelphia attending schools managed by for-profit firms are further ahead than are students at schools left in the hands of the school district.
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November 1, 2007
"For-Profit and Non-Profit School Management: The Philadelphia Experiment "
PEPG Director Paul E. Peterson and Research Fellow Matthew M. Chingos release a new study on the impact of for-profit and non-profit management on student achievement in Philadelphia. View the Press Release for this study. |
July 30, 2007
"What Americans Think about Their Schools "
PEPG Deputy Director William Howell, Research Affiliate Martin West, and Director Paul Peterson discuss the results of the 2007 Education Next—PEPG Survey in the the Fall 2007 issue of Education Next. View the Press Release for this study.
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July 24, 2007
"School Choice and Racial Balance "
In this Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, PEPG Director Paul Peterson presents his argument that, to achieve racial balance, parents should be allowed to choose their child's school, and that
oversubscribed schools should be allowed to admit students by lot.
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February 22, 2007
"The Philadelphia Story"
In this Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, PEPG Director Paul Peterson takes on the recent RAND Corporation study on the private management of schools in Philadelphia. The Op-Ed coincides with the Philadelphia Accountability Review Council's report on private management.
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February 8, 2007
"Keeping Education Accountable"
PEPG Director Paul E. Peterson comments on educational accountability in this Harvard Crimson op-ed.
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December 19 , 2006
PEPG Identified as Source of Most Influential Research
PEPG school voucher research has been identified as one of the 13 most influential studies shaping education policy over the past 10 years, according to the recent Editorial Projects in Education (EPE) Research Center report, "Influence: A Study of the Factors Shaping Education Policy." EPE also identified the PEPG-sponsored Education Next: A Journal of Opinion and Research as one of the ten most influential sources of information on education policy.
Full press release
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November 20, 2006
Paul Peterson Named to Head Florida Education Transition Team
Florida Governor-Elect Charlie Crist announced the five additional of nine total Citizen Review Group leaders that will spearhead an agency-by-agency fact-finding mission aimed at identifying opportunities and challenges within each operation. PEPG Director Paul E. Peterson will head the Education transition team, covering the Department of Education and Agency for Persons with
Disabilities.
Full press release
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September 28, 2006
School Ratings Under NCLB and Florida's A+ Accountability Plan
Contrasting the accountabilty provisions of President Bush's No Child Left Behind law with his brother's plan in Florida, Sam Dillon of the New York Times discusses the recent Education Next article, "Is Your Child's School Effective? Don't Rely on NCLB to Tell You," by Paul Peterson and Marty West.
"As 2 Bushes Try to Fix Schools, Tools Differ"
Sam Dillon - New York Times
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August 2006
Media Coverage of "On the Public-Private School Achievement Debate"
"Federal Statistics Commissioner Questions NCES Involvement in Private vs. Public School Study"
Sean Cavanaugh - Education Week (web-only), August 11, 2006
"Data Reanalysis Finds Test-Score Edge for Private Schools"
Mary Ann Zehr - Education Week, August 9, 2006
"Students do better in private schools, researchers find" (Detroit Free Press)
"New study puts private schools ahead of public ones" (Arizona Free Republic)
Paul Basken (Bloomerg News), August 3, 2006
"Private Schools Really Are Better"
John Hood , National Review Online, August 3, 2006
"Report Ranking Public School Students Above Private School Students Said ‘Flawed'"
Deborah Kolben, NY Sun, August 2, 2006
"The Arbiter of Choice"
NY Sun Editorial, August 2, 2006
Harvard Study Finds That Students at Private High Schools Have a Clear Edge
Chronicle of Higher Education, August 2, 2006
Study disputes public school advantage (Washington Times)
United Press International , August 2, 2006
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April 2006
Market Forces: Professor Paul Peterson's Influential Protégés
Dale Mezzacappa of the Education Sector profiles the PEPG Director Paul Peterson in the context of his recruiting and mentoring a new generation of education scholars. Access the full report. |
March 29 and April 5, 2006
Taking on the Teacher Unions
In a pair of Op-Eds appearing in the Boston Globe and the NY Daily News, Frederick Hess and Martin West comment on the proposed education reforms of Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and the challenge of overhauling the teachers union contract in New York City.
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March 1 , 2006
Spring 2006 Issue of Education Next Is Available Online
- Access the full issue.
- Read the press release about Brian Jacob and Lars Lefgren's research article on the accuracy of principals' assessments of teacher performance. Education Week also covered this story: "Study Backs Principals as Effective in Evaluating Teachers" [subscription required].
- Read the press release for Jay Greene and Marcus Winter's research article on the effect of Florida's Retention Policy.
- Read the press release for Michael Podgursky's feature on teacher quality and teacher pay. |
November 17, 2005
Winter 2006 Issue of Education Next Is Available Online
- Access the full issue.
- Read the press release about Harvard Economist Roland Fryer's research article on 'Acting White.'
- Read Education Week coverage of Fryer's article. "Minority Students’ Popularity Found to Fall as Grades Rise," Debra Viadero, November 16, 2005 [subscription required]
- "Computing the Cost of 'Acting White,'" John Tierney, New York Times, November 19, 2005 [subscription required]
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Coverage of the PEPG Adequacy Lawsuits Conference
November 1, 2005
"Flanking Strategy" Education Sector Bi-monthly newsletter
October 26, 2005
"Movement Afoot to Reframe Finance-Adequacy Lawsuits" David J. Hoff, Education Week [subscription required] |
September 28, 2005
Erasing Inequality
In this New York Sun Op-Ed, PEPG Director Paul Peterson responds to a front page New York Times article ("As Test Scores Jump, Raleigh Credits Integration by Income," Alan Finder, Sept. 25, 2005, page 1) in which it was reported that students from Raleigh, NC, made substantial test score gains as a result of a school desegregation policy implemented a decade ago.
September 27, 2005
Education's Hidden Scandal
In this Op-Ed that appeared in the Charlotte Observer, PEPG Director Paul Peterson discusses how schools conceal the dropout rates of minority students. |
June 7 , 2005
A Chance to Escape
In his NY Times Op-Ed column, John Tierney discusses the Florida Supreme Court case in which the plaintiffs are attempting to end Florida's Opportunity Scholarship program for students in failing public schools. In shaping his argument in favor of the voucher program, Tierney references PEPG Director Paul Peterson and PEPG Research Fellow Marty West's recent research paper about Florida's accountability system, "The Efficacy of Choice Threats within School Accountability Systems."
"A Chance to Escape" (free subscription required) • PDF of PEPG Study |
May 6, 2005
New PEPG Research Papers on Principal Preparation
Frederick Hess and Andrew Kelly of the American Enterprise Institute have authored two new research papers on principal preparation for PEPG. In the first paper (PEPG 05-02: "Learning to Lead? What Gets Taught in Principal Preparation Programs"), they find little evidence that principal preparation programs are introducing students to a broad range of management, organizational, or administrative theory and practice. This paper also appears in the Summer 2005 issue of Education Next under the title, "The Accidental Principal."
PDF of the study • Education Next article • Education Next press release
In the second paper (PEPG 05-03: "Textbook Leadership? An Analysis of Leading Books Used in Principal Preparation") they analyze widely adopted education administration textbooks and report that these texts paid little attention to accountability, efficiency, or how to make critical personnel decisions. Moreover, the books provided little guidance on how to use accountability as a management tool or use resources more efficiently.
PDF of the study |
April 28, 2005
Sue First, Teach Later
In this Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, Paul Peterson and Martin West discuss the recent decision of the National Education Assocation and others to sue the federal government on the basis that the No Child Left Behind Act is an unfunded mandate.
Download a PDF of the Op-Ed |
April 5, 2005
"The Efficacy of Choice Threats within School Accountability Systems: Results from Legislatively Induced Experiments"
In the first independent study to examine the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) on the test-score performance of individual students, Martin R. West and Paul E. Peterson found that key choice provisions of the Florida A+ Accountability Plan were more effective than NCLB's at promoting student achievement gains.
Read the full press release • Download a PDF of the study |
February 22, 2005
Wage Compression Driving Top Women Graduates from Teaching
In the Spring issue of Education Next, Caroline Hoxby, Professor of Economics at Harvard University and director of the Economics of Education Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, presents new research on decline of teacher quality - why America's top women college graduates are not teaching.
Read the full press release • Access this Article |
December 14, 2004
Nationwide Study Shows More Charter School Students Proficient on State Exams than Public School Peers
Nationwide, a higher percentage of students in established charter schools are judged proficient on the state reading and math examinations than in the nearest traditional public school. If a charter school has been operating for more than nine years, ten percent more students are scoring at or above the proficiency level in both subjects.
This finding comes from a new study by Caroline Hoxby of Harvard University that compares the performance of charter school students with students in the nearest traditional public school. Ninety-nine percent of all elementary students in charter schools are included in the study.
Read the full press release • Download a PDF of the study |
September 24, 2004
PEPG Named Key Partner in First Federally-Funded Research Center on School Choice
PEPG, together with other leading institutions, will establish the federally funded Center on School Choice, Competition and Achievement.
The Center will receive a $10 million dollar, five-year grant from the Institute of Education Sciences, the main research component of the U.S. Department of Education. Under the grant’s terms, PEPG, under the direction of Paul Peterson, will examine the impacts of school vouchers on public schools, the effects of charter schools and private schools on student achievement, and the effects of school accountability systems on political competition within school districts
Read the full press release |
June 12, 2003
Latest Results from New York City School Voucher Research: African Americans in Private Schools Score Higher
New analyses of an evaluation of a privately funded New York City voucher program show positive effects on the test scores of African Americans, report PEPG researchers Paul Peterson and William Howell. The latest findings show higher levels of performance in private schools in a wide variety of statistical estimations. The results are of special interest because they are obtained from a randomized field trial of the kind often undertaken in medical research but seldom used in the study of educational innovations. Peterson and Howell looked at the evidence 120 different ways. In 108 of the estimations employed, significantly positive impacts for African Americans were discerned. The few results that did not register significant effects were based on less rigorous research methods.
Read the full press release |
February 19, 2002
Latest Results from New York City School Voucher Research: African Americans in Private Schools Score Higher
New analyses of an evaluation of a privately funded New York City voucher program show positive effects on the test scores of African Americans, report PEPG researchers Paul Peterson and William Howell. The latest findings show higher levels of performance in private schools in a wide variety of statistical estimations. The results are of special interest because they are obtained from a randomized field trial of the kind often undertaken in medical research but seldom used in the study of educational innovations. Peterson and Howell looked at the evidence 120 different ways. In 108 of the estimations employed, significantly positive impacts for African Americans were discerned. The few results that did not register significant effects were based on less rigorous research methods.
Read the full press release |
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