What Doesn't Meet the Eye

About the Author

Ronald F. Ferguson, Ph.D., is a lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he has taught since 1983, and a senior research associate at the Wiener Center for Social Policy Research. Dr. Ferguson's research and publications cover issues in education policy, youth development programming, community development, economic consequences of skill differences, and state and local economic development. His recent papers on the achievement gap have appeared in publications of the National Research Council, the Brookings Institution, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Educational Research Service. He is an economist by training and a Ph.D. graduate of MIT. Dr. Ferguson may be contacted at Ronald_Ferguson@Harvard.edu

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