Education

What the Public Thinks of Public Schools

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 9, 2009

Paul Peterson has a good column in today’s Wall Street Journal about the public’s perception of public schools — they are (correctly in Peterson’s judgment) unerwhelmed by school’s performance,…

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School Choice and Racial Balance

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 24, 2007

Paul Peterson in today’s Wall Street Journal on how school choice can reduce racial segregation in schools.

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Privately Managed Schools in Philly Gain

  • Nathan Benefield
  • April 13, 2007

A new report by Paul Peterson at Harvard indicates that privately managed schools in Philadelphia had greater gains in PSSA scores than overall public schools and than “restructured” schools…

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