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...Teachers' organizations take the position that because of the family background of their students, the public schools can't do any better," Peterson said. "This smacks of the pessimism of the Herrnstein position...
...Peterson said he believes teachers' organizations oppose such programs because of their fear "of competition to the public school system as it exists today...
Despite the positive results of the study, Peterson does not recommend drastic changes based on its findings, but instead suggests that policies and programs should be created that are consistent with the data drawn from similar experiments...
...sort of program upon which Peterson and Greene's study is based is the subject of fierce debate in states from Ohio to Pennsylvania, according to Peterson...
...these controversies, Peterson said, teachers' unions have opposed the creation of pilot programs that siphon qualified students from public to private schools...