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Ronald Franklin Ferguson

Faculty Info

Member of the Faculty of Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Kennedy School

Degrees

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (1981)

Email

ronald_ferguson@harvard.edu

  • Ferguson, R. (2010). How High Schools Become Exemplary. Report on the 2009 Annual Conference of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University. May 2010. (With Sandra Hackman, Robert Hanna, and Ann Ballantine.) Available at www.agi.harvard.edu
  • Ferguson, R. (2010). Racial Tensions and Teacher Engagement in Professional Learning. MASCD Perspectives - Online, Winter 2010. Publication of the Massachusetts Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development.
  • CNN Commentary: What Parents Can Do for their Kids. June 20, 2009. http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/07/17/ferguson.education.parents/
  • Ferguson, R. (2008). Helping Students of Color Meet High Standards. In Mica Pollock, Ed., Everyday Anti-Racism. New York: New Press.
  • Ferguson, R., (2008). Raising Achievement and Closing Gaps in Whole School Systems: Recent Advances in Research and Practice. Report on the 2008 Annual Conference of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University. December 2008. (With Sandra Hackman, Robert Hanna, and Ann Ballantine) Available at www.agi.harvard.edu.
  • Ferguson, R. (2008). What We’ve Learned about ‘Stalled Progress’ in Closing the Black-White Achievement Gap. In Katherine Magnuson and Jane Waldfogel, eds., Steady Gains and Stalled Progress: Inequality and the Black-White Test Score Gap. New York: Russell Sage.
  • Ferguson, R. F. (2007). Professional Community and Closing Student Achievement Gaps. In R. D. Henderson (Ed.), Research Briefs from the NEA Visiting Scholars Series: Teacher Quality and Achievement Gaps (pp. 11-15). Washington, DC: National Education Association.
  • Ferguson, R. (2007). Opportunity Now: Raising Achievement in Spite of Structural Impediments. In C. Deshano da Silva, J.P. Huguley, J.P., Z. Kakli, & R. Rao, Eds., The Opportunity Gap: Achievement and Inequality in Education. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
  • Ferguson, R. (2007). Parenting Practices, Teenage Lifestyles, and Academic Achievement among African American Children. Focus (University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty) Vol. 25(1). Spring-Summer 2007.
  • Ferguson, R. (2007). Become More Sophisticated about Diversity. Journal of Staff Development. 28( 3), Summer 2007.
  • Ferguson, R. (2007). Toward Excellence with Equity—The Role of Parenting and Transformative School Reform. In, Clive R. Belfield and Henry M. Levin, Eds., The Price We Pay: Economic and Social Consequences of Inadequate Education. Washington DC: Brookings Press.
  • Ferguson, R. (2007). Toward Excellence with Equity: An emerging vision for closing the achievement gap. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, December 2007.

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