About the National High School Center
Friends of the National High School Center
David J. Ferrero
David J. Ferrero is Senior Program Officer for the Education Division of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Foundation’s educational giving aims to raise high school graduation and college-going rates for black and Hispanic youth through scholarships and the development of small, rigorous, and supportive high schools.
Prior to joining the foundation in 2000, Dr. Ferrero had worked as a journalist and high school teacher outside Chicago; education policy researcher for Achieve, Inc.; instructional coach for an after school enrichment program for inner city youth in Boston; and consultant to the Massachusetts Commissioner of Education on teacher quality and alternative certification. More recently, he was a co-editor of and contributor to Educating Citizens: International Perspectives on Civic Values and School Choice (Brookings Press, 2004). Other recent writing focuses on values pluralism among educators and its implications for policy and practice. His own education includes a BA in intellectual history from the University of Redlands, Master’s degrees in American Cultural Studies from the University of Michigan and English from Northwestern University, and a doctorate in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from Harvard University. A native of Chicago, he currently lives in Seattle with his wife and three children.
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