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Monday, September 8, 2008

State of Students of Color & American Indian Students Conference: The other Minnesota Get Together™

MMEP is proud to share the news that Dr. Ronald Ferguson, director, Achievement Gap Institute at Harvard University will deliver the luncheon keynote address at the 2008 State of Students of Color & American Indian Students Conference on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008.

Ferguson is the creator and director of the Tripod Project for School Improvement. His research over the last several years has focused on racial achievement gaps, and has appeared in publications of the National Research Council, the Brookings Institution, the U.S. Department of Education, Educational Research Service, and others. Ferguson received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in economics.

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