Achievement Gap Dr Ronald F Ferguson

Description: Ronald F. Ferguson PhD has taught at the Kennedy School since 1983, as well as a participating as a senior research associate at Harvard's Wiener Center for Social Policy Research.He has also taught at MIT, Brandeis, and Brown Universities. Dr. Ferguson's publications cover issues in education policy, youth development programming, community development, economic consequences of skill disparities, and state and local economic development. His research for the past several years has focused on racial achievement gaps, appearing in publications of the National Research Council, the Brookings Institution, the US Department of Education, and the Educational Research Service, among others. He is the creator and director of the Tripod Project for School Improvement and the faculty chair and director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University. Dr. Ferguson attended public schools in Cleveland, Ohio, later earning an undergraduate degree from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from MIT, both in economics.