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Keynote
Speaker:
Dr. Pedro Noguera
Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University
Pedro
Noguera is the Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education
at New York University. Noguera is an urban sociologist
whose scholarship and research focuses on the ways in
which schools are influenced by social and economic
conditions in the urban environment. He holds faculty
appointments in the departments of Teaching and Learning
and Humanities and Social Sciences at the Steinhardt
School of Culture, Education and Development, as well
as in the Department of Sociology at New York University.
Dr. Noguera is also the Executive Director of the Metropolitan
Center for Urban Education and the co-Director of the
Institute for the Study of Globalization and Education
in Metropolitan Settings (IGEMS). In 2008, he was appointed
by the Governor of New York to serve on the State University
of New York Board of Trustees.
Dr. Noguera received his bachelors’ degree in
Sociology and History and a teaching credential from
Brown University in 1981. He earned his masters’
degree in Sociology from Brown in 1982 received his
doctorate in Sociology from UC Berkeley in 1989. Dr.
Noguera was a classroom teacher in public schools in
Providence, RI and Oakland, CA. He has held tenured
faculty appoints at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
(2000-2003), where he was named the Judith K. Dimon
Professor of Communities and Schools and at the University
of California, Berkeley (1990-2000), where he was also
the Director of the Institute for the Study of Social
Change. He has published over one hundred and fifty
research articles, monographs and research reports on
topics such as urban school reform, conditions that
promote student achievement, youth violence, the potential
impact of school choice and vouchers on urban public
schools, and race and ethnic relations in American society.
His work has appeared in multiple major research journals.
Dr. Noguera is the author of The Imperatives of
Power: Political Change and the Social Basis of Regime
Support in Grenada (Peter Lang Publishers, 1997), City
Schools and the American Dream (Teachers College Press
2003), Unfinished Business: Closing the Achievement
Gap in Our Nation’s Schools (Josey Bass, 2006)
City Kids, City Teachers, with Bill Ayers and Greg Michie
(New Press 2008), and The Trouble With Black Boys…and
Other Reflections on Race, Equity and the Future of
Public Education (Wiley and Sons, 2008). Dr. Noguera
appears as a regular commentator on educational issues
on CNN, National Public Radio, and other national news
outlets.
- 1997
Wellness Foundation Award for research on youth violence
- 1997
University of California's Distinguished Teaching
Award
- 2001
Honorary doctorate from the University of San Francisco
- 2001
Centennial Medal, Philadelphia University
- 2003
Forward Magazine Gold Award (City Schools and the
American Dream)
- 2003
AESA Critics Choice Book Award (City Schools and the
American Dream)
- 2005
Whitney Young Award for Leadership in Education
- 2006
Eugene Carrothers Award for Public Service
- 2008
Schott Foundation Award for Research on Race and Gender
- 2008
AESA Critics Choice Book Award (Trouble With Black
Boys - Josey Bass 2008)
- 2009
Scholastic Corporation Education Hero Award.
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