Introduction: What We Know About Our Schools

The Hoover Institution’s Tennenbaum Program for Fact-Based Policy is pleased to present What We know About Our Schools, a comprehensive essay by Nora Gordon of Georgetown University and Paul E. Peterson of Harvard University. The quality of K–12 education is a prime determinant of not only the success of each individual, group, and cohort, but the nation’s economic prosperity, for it determines the quality of our future labor force. Widespread concern that many children are not receiving a quality education has been a staple of public and political discourse for many decades. That concern takes numerous forms, but stripped to its essentials, it involves the determinants of how successful our students are in school, in preparation for their lives thereafter.

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