Dan E. Sweat Lecture Series - 2004
Inaugural Dan E. Sweat Lecture
“The Racial Gap in Education Outcomes: Confronting the Challenge”
The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies and The Fiscal Research Center hosted the inaugural Dan E. Sweat Distinguished Lecture on April 1, 2004. The guest speaker for the lecture was Dr. Ronald F. Ferguson, Senior Research Associate at the Wiener Center for Social Policy. The seminar by Dr. Ferguson was held in The Student Center Speaker’s Auditorium (Gilmer and Courtland St) at 7:15pm.
Ronald F. Ferguson is an economist and Senior Research Associate at the Wiener Center for Social Policy. He has taught at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government since 1983. Recent publications include several on education policy and a co-edited volume (to which he is also a contributor) titled Urban Problems and Community Development, published by Brookings Institution Press. Ferguson participates in a variety of consulting and policy advisory activities on issues of education, employment, youth development, and urban development. These include work with public school districts on the black-white achievement gap, expert testimony in school finance cases, and committees at the National Research Council dealing with educational testing, school reforms, and youth development programming. He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from MIT, both in economics.
More information on the lecture can be found here
