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Archive Home > 2011 > February > 17 > Closing the achievement gap without widening a racial one

Closing the achievement gap without widening a racial one

By Michael Winerip / The Bulletin
February 17, 2011

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — There is no more pressing topic in education today than closing the achievement gap, and there is no one in America who knows more about the gap than Ronald Ferguson.

Although he is a Harvard professor based in Cambridge, Mass., the 60-year-old Ferguson spends lots of time....

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