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Teachers College, Columbia University
Teachers College
Columbia University
The Campaign for Educational Equity
The Campaign for Educational Equity
Fall 2005 Symposium on the “Social Costs of Inadequate Education”
Fall 2005 Symposium on the “Social Costs of Inadequate Education”

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October 24th and 25th at  Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia University

Ronald F. Ferguson


Harvard University

Presentation Topic:

  • Toward Skilled Parenting & Transformed Schools Inside a National Movement for Excellence With Equity [Summary]

Ronald F. Ferguson is a Lecturer at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government where he has taught since 1983.  He is also the Faculty Chair and Director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University and a Senior Research Associate at the Wiener Center for Social Policy.  His research and publications cover issues in education policy and practice, youth development programming, community development, economic consequences of skill disparities, and state and local economic development.  He participates in a variety of consulting, research and policy advisory roles and works actively with public school districts on efforts to narrow achievement gaps.  He earned an undergraduate degree from Cornell University and the Ph.D. from MIT, both in economics. Recent publications include:

  • Why America's Black-White School Achievement Gap Persists. In Glenn Loury, Tariq Modood and Steve Teles, eds., Social Mobility in the U.S. and Great Britain. New York: Cambridge University Press, in press for early 2005.
  • The Working-Poverty Trap. The Public Interest ,  No. 158, Winter, 2005.
  • An Unfinished Journey: The Legacy of Brown and the Narrowing of the Achievement Gap. Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 85, No. 9, May 2004.
  • Urban Problems and Community Development. Washington DC : Brookings Institution Press, 1999. (Co-edited with William T. Dickens)

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