Alumni Dinner and Talk: Harvard Prof. Paul E. Peterson (SOLD OUT)
Join us at our annual Alumni Talk and hear Prof. Peterson speak about The Perilous State of American Education and What We Can Do About it
This event is sold out.
Lecture
When: Friday, June 21, 2013 at 5:00pm
Location: USC Parkside Campus - please RSVP to the right so we can coordinate attendance for the lecture. You will receive location information before the event.
Cost for lecture: No charge - RSVP (to the right) required.
Dinner
If you are interested in joining Prof. Peterson and members of the Harvard Club of Southern California for dinner, please register using the link below
Dinner will start at 6:15pm
Where: USC University Club, 705 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Cost for dinner: $30, Members; $35 Non-members
Contact: Madeleine Mejia, Madeleine_Mejia@post.harvard.edu
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 is the author of the book, Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning and is also the author or editor of numerous other education publications.
Peterson is also 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.