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- ISBN 9781950665105
- Weight: 384g
- Dimensions: 152 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 04 Aug 2020
- Publisher: BenBella Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Ronald F. Ferguson PhD joined the faculty at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1983 and has spent his entire career there using teaching research and writing to increase the flow of knowledge between the university and the world. An MIT-trained economist who focuses social science research on economic social and educational challenges he co-founded Tripod Education Partners in 2014 and shifted into an adjunct role at the University where he remains a fellow at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy and faculty director of the university-wide Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI). A February 2011 profile of Ron in the New York Times wrote There is no one in America who knows more about the gap that Ronald Ferguson. Ron's current focus as AGI director is an initiative titled the Boston Basics. Inspired by the fact that birth-to-three is a critically important period for learning the Basics Campaign is striving to saturate the entire community with advice and support for the parents of infants and toddlers. Ron holds an undergraduate degree from Cornell University and a PhD from MIT both in economics. He has been happily married for 38 years and is the father of two adult sons. Tatsha Robertson MA is an award-winning editor and writer with more than 20 years of experience handling investigative feature and news stories for leading magazines and newspapers. As the first female New York City Bureau Chief and National Rover for the Boston Globe she began studying how parents raise successful children some ten years ago. She pioneered Essence magazine's focus on investigative and news articles which led to the positioning of the magazine as a significant authority and voice on news and led to an interview with President Obama on parenting. Most recently she was a senior editor at People where she focused on crime stories. She has been an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University since 2005. Ms. Robertson has been a frequent guest on national media appearing on programs like TODAY and for television networks that include CNN HLN FOX and MSNBC. A prolific writer Robertson recently co-authored Media Circus with Kim Goldman. She is also completing a thriller. Born in Boston Massachusetts she grew up in Greenville South Carolina and earned a bachelor's degree at Morris College and a master's degree in journalism at The Ohio State University.
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