Tag: Achievement Gap Initiative

  • Nation & World

    Raising successful kids

    A Q&A with Ronald Ferguson, director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard, about his new book on how to raise successful children based on interviews with highly accomplished young people and their parents.

    Ronald Ferguson.
  • Campus & Community

    A window into college

    More than 300 kindergarten and fourth-grade African-American boys visited Harvard for the launch of Impact 300, a multifaceted Boston Public Schools program aimed at closing the achievement gap and helping to prepare the boys for college. Harvard partnered with the Boston schools in the program.

  • Nation & World

    Fresh paths to success

    A dean, a professor, and a former journalist are shaking up education and policy circles with a report that asks: What if not everyone had to go to college to have a good life?