Martin R. West is an assistant professor of education at Brown University and an executive editor of Education Next. Paul E. Peterson is a professor of government at Harvard University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He serves as editor in chief of Education Next . Education Next is a scholarly journal published by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University that is committed to looking at hard facts about school reform. Other sponsoring institutions are the Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance and the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.