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		<title>Don’t Call them Underdogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a review of a new PBS documentary about urban debate leagues for Education Next. It was published today, and it begins: You may have seen a movie in which teenagers experience grave injustice and then enter a prestigious competition where they prove to the world that they are smart. The competition might be [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35350">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the year of school choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2023 18:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A colleague points out that new state laws that allow parents to use public money to purchase education may represent the biggest US policy trend of 2023&#8211;basically, since the Republicans won the US House and stopped further federal progressive legislation. As Libby Stanford wrote in EdWeek last June, So far this year, lawmakers in 14 [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=30546">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the links between capital and education</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2022 18:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My employer and primary community, Tufts University, appears (along with virtually all US colleges and universities) in two massive studies by Raj Chetty and colleagues. I will use Tufts&#8217; statistics to offer some general observations about the relationships between capital and education in our economic order. Tufts represents one type of institution that plays a [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=28040">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>what Americans think about teaching controversy in schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2022 15:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anna Saavedra, Meira Levinson, and Morgan Polikoff report some results from the August-September Understanding America Study that reveal what Americans believe about teaching controversial issues in schools. The sample is 3,751 representative adults, and the survey is a high-quality instrument that I have previously used myself. The headline is that Americans broadly agree about discussing [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=27672">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the shrinking field of vocational education</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2020 19:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you look at the graph &#8230; What subjects do you think have become more or less prevalent in US high schools since the late 1980s? If we measure the percentage of all high school teachers who are assigned to each major subject, this is the pattern: Almost all the subjects were similar in 1988 [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=22830">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Educational Equity During a Pandemic</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=22772</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2020 19:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In lieu of a post here today, I have an article up on the American Federation of Teachers&#8217; Shanker Institute blog, entitled &#8220;Educational Equity During A Pandemic.&#8221; It begins: My wife and I have each spent many hours teaching by video this spring. While sitting in the same house, I meet online with college students [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=22772">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>discussing school choice</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=22375</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 16:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my public policy course, we are discussing school choice as an opportunity for exploring theoretical issues (What is a market versus a state? What is a public good versus a private good?); empirical questions (What happens when you implement &#8230; <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=22375">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>School and Society in the Age of Trump</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2019 17:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Rogers and the research team of Michael Ishimoto, Alexander Kwako, Anthony Berryman, and Claudia Diera have produced a landmark study entitled &#8220;School and Society in the Age of Trump,&#8221; based on their survey of 505 high school principals and &#8230; <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=21131">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>the first “civic ed” bill: 1642</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Massachusetts legislature is considering S. 2306, a bill to enhance civic education. I&#8217;m for this legislation. Questions about whether the Commonwealth should require civics&#8211;or, indeed, any subject&#8211;led me to wonder when civics was first mandated in Massachusetts. I think &#8230; <a href="http://peterlevine.ws/?p=19709">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>what if there were no public or no private schools?</title>
		<link>http://peterlevine.ws/?p=19688</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[education policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Atlantic&#8217;s Julie Halpert asks us to imagine two scenarios. In one, &#8220;every child would have to attend private school, and in the other, every child would have to attend public school. Which scenario would be more likely to improve &#8230; <a href="http://peterlevine.ws/?p=19688">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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