Ronald joxi5/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Beginning in 2016, implementation has spread to more than three-dozen other cities in The Basics Learning Network. Now renamed simply The Basics, the project has moved out of Harvard into a nonprofit organization, The Basics, Inc. A February 2011 profile of Ron in the New York Times wrote, “there is no one in America who knows more about the gap than Ronald Ferguson.”įor the past several years, Ron’s focus as AGI director has been an initiative first entitled the Boston Basics. In December 2007, Harvard Education Press published his book Toward Excellence with Equity: An Emerging Vision for Closing the Achievement Gap. Department of Education, and various books and journals. During the 1990s and early 2000s, his writings on the topic appeared in publications of the National Research Council, the Brookings Institution, the U.S. That work culminated in the social science synthesis volume Urban Problems and Community Development (1999), which remains an important text in graduate policy courses.īy the late 1980s he had begun to study education and youth development because academic skill disparities were contributing to growing wage disparity. In 2014, he co-founded Tripod Education Partners and shifted into an adjunct role at the Kennedy School, where he remains a faculty affiliated at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy and faculty director of the Achievement Gap Initiative ( AGI).ĭuring the 1980s and ‘90s Ron focused much of his attention on economic and community development. Kennedy School of Government since 1983, after full time appointments at Brandeis and Brown Universities. He has been on the faculty at Harvard’s John F. Ferguson is an MIT-trained economist who focuses social science research on economic, social, and educational challenges. Taubman Center for State and Local Government.Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.To plant Memorial Trees in memory of Gale Shields, please click here to visit our Sympathy Store. Gale Shields, please click here to visit our Sympathy Store. To send a flower arrangement or to plant trees in memory of Services entrusted to the Vinson House of Mortuary, Steubenville Ohio 27, 2016, at 10 am at the Shaffer Chapel Church, Services at noon at Shaffer Chapel AME Church, McIntyre, Ohio with Rev. Bush of Pennsylvania,Ronald (Jodi) Bush of Cadiz, Ohio, Scott (Nikita) Bush of of Columbus, Ohio and Christopher Bell of Cleveland, Ohio two brothers, Tyrone (Patricia) Smith of Bloomingdale, Ohio and Kim (Norma) Smith of Las Vegas, Nevada, three sisters, Deena (Fredrick) Fields of Jacksonville, Florida,JoAnn (Chuck) Gross of Cadiz, Ohio and Cathhy (Buck) Takach of Smithfield, Ohio an uncle, Milton (Jack) Smith of Columbus, Ohio an aunt Elizabeth (Jeannie) Smith of Smithfield, Ohio grandaughter, Kaydence Jones of Cadiz, Ohio grandsons, Jovan, DaRon, DeShawn, and DeVante Bush, all of Troy, Ohio a niece, Shawne (Q) Jackson, of Jackson, Florida and a host of great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. Bush of Springfield, Ohio four sons,Robert W. She is survived by the father of her children and good friend, James W. Preceded in death by her parents, Austin Toney and Annis Wheeler West a husbands Carl (Goose) Young and Kevin Shields one daughter Ranona Bush four brothers, Larry Toney, Derrick West, Butch Smith and Lance Smith an aunt, Theresa (Junie) Madison. ![]() She was a member of Shaffer Chapel AME Church. She was educated in the Wayne Township school sysatem, and worked as a nursing assistant. 24, 1945, in Steubenville, to Austin and Annis Wheeler West. Gale Shields 71, of Wintersville, Ohio, died. ![]()
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