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Closing the Nation's Racial Achievement Gaps I
May 5, 2005
Prudence Carter assistant professor, sociology, Harvard
Ronald Ferguson faculty director, Achievement Gap Initiative, Harvard
Mica Pollock assistant professor, education, HGSE

Organized by the Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) at Harvard University, this series kicks off a forum entitled Race, Culture, and K-12 Achievement Gaps. Popular discourse among national leaders has assumed that some black and Latino youth are embedded in a culture that is oppositional to achievement and that this culture is a major impediment to narrowing the nation's achievement gaps. The speakers present a more complex picture, identifying issues upon which future research will be helpful, and suggesting some practical implications of the emerging research consensus.

Panelists include Prudence Carter, assistant professor of sociology, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Ronald Ferguson, lecturer of public policy, Kennedy School of Government; and Mica Pollock, assistant professor of education, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Achievement Gap | Activism | American nation's achievement gaps. | Education Reform | Harvard | K-12 education | Primary Education | Race | secondary education | student progress
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Image of Keepin' It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities)
Author: Prudence L. Carter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (2007)
Binding: Paperback, 240 pages
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Author: Mica Pollock
Publisher: Princeton University Press (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 296 pages
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Publisher: Princeton University Press (2005)
Binding: Paperback, 288 pages
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