Mar 25, 2010
6:00PM - 8:30PM PT

Harbor Club of Seattle
The Norton Building
801 Second Avenue, 17th Floor
Seattle, WA 98104

Professor Peterson's new book Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning (will be published in early 2010) interprets the history of American schools by placing major educational reformers in the context of their times and relates their thinking to our own era by scrutinizing the often unanticipated consequences of their commitments and ideas. The poorly understood history of public education in America becomes personal and vivid through the lives, ideas, and ordeals of seven personalities who have shaped and are shaping our schools.

Please RSVP by March 22, 2010

Member Price: $50 ($60 after 3/22)
Non-Member Price: $60 ($70 after 3/22)

 

Professor 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 Governmental Studies program at the Brookings Institution.

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); Reforming Education in Florida: A Study Prepared by the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education (Hoover, 2006); The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (Revised Edition) (Brookings, 2006); and many others. 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. 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.

He is a member of the independent review panel advising the Department of Education’s evaluation of the No Child Left Behind law. 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: Kelly Charlton - programs@harvardseattle.org