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October 10, 2006 Contact:
Narrowing the achievement gapATLANTA - Ronald F. Ferguson, a renown education and economic development expert, will be the keynote speaker at the 18th annual Benjamin E. Mays Memorial Lecture College of Education Speaker Series, at 7 p.m. Oct. 12 at the Rialto Center for the Arts. Ferguson will discuss "Narrowing Achievement Gaps by Addressing Youth Culture, Parenting and the Quality of Instruction." Ferguson, who has taught at Harvard since 1983 is a lecturer in public policy, an economist and senior research associate at Harvard's Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy. He has focused much of his research on racial achievement gaps since the mid-1990s, as director of both the Tripod Project for School Improvement and the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University, a research group that focuses on reducing performance disparities between minority and white students. The annual Benjamin E. Mays Memorial Lecture Series, sponsored by Georgia State's College of Education and Alonzo A. Crim Center for Urban Educational Excellence, began in 1989 to encourage the discussion of issues facing urban educational leaders through a series of lectures. The annual event not only honors the memory of Mays, an Atlanta educator, but also promotes his philosophy of excellence in the education of those typically least served by society. WHO: Ronald F. Ferguson, Harvard University WHAT: 18th annual Benjamin E. Mays Memorial Lecture WHEN: 7 p.m. Oct. 12 WHERE:
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