Paul E. Peterson

Professor of Government, Harvard University

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Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of its Program on Education Policy and Governance; senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and Editor-In-Chief of Education Next, a journal of opinion and research

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US High School Math Students Score 31st Out of 56 Countries

In the first-ever study of its kind, the US is 31st among 56 countries, from Taiwan to the Czech Republic, in the performance of top students in math.

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