For over twenty years, scholars Paul Hill and Paul Peterson have been at the forefront of the effort to bring greater educational options to America’s neediest students. Please join the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Hoover Institution for an event to examine the respective books of these two authors. Together, they take a fresh look at the history and future of school choice.
In Learning as We Go: Why School Choice is Worth the Wait, Hill argues that choice can still fulfill its potential if we’re willing to tinker with the rules governing its operation. In Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning, Peterson chronicles the unanticipated consequences of reforms over the past 150 years and then considers the way in which the school choice movement has evolved from the theories of James Coleman to the practical realities of school vouchers, charters, homeschooling, and, now, perhaps, virtual learning. Please join these two giants of American education scholarship for an exploration of how we got to this point and where we’re going next. Richard Kahlenberg of the Century Foundation and Bill Tucker of Education Sector will offer comments.
Presenters:
Paul T. Hill, John and Marguerite Corbally Professor, University of Washington Bothell and Director, Center on Reinventing Public Education
Paul E. Peterson, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government, Harvard University and Editor-in-Chief, Education Next
Discussants:
Richard D. Kahlenberg, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation
Bill Tucker, Managing Director, Education Sector
Moderator:
Michael Petrilli, VP for National Programs and Policy, Thomas B. Fordham Institute