Pedro Noguera (born August 7, 1959) is the Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean of the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education.[1][2] He is recognized as a leading scholar of urban public education, equity, and school reform.[3][4][5]

Pedro Noguera
Born (1959-08-07) August 7, 1959 (age 64)
Occupations
  • Sociologist
  • university administrator
Academic background
Education
Academic work
InstitutionsUSC Rossier School of Education
Websitepedronoguera.com

Noguera holds a B.A. and M.A. in sociology and a teaching credential from Brown University and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.[6]

Books edit

As author edit

  • The Imperatives of Power: Regime survival and the basis of political support in Grenada, 1951-1991 (1997). New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.
  • City Schools and the American Dream: Fulfilling the Promise of Public Education (2003). New York: Teachers College Press. Winner, Forward Magazine Award for best book in education 2003; American Association of Educational Studies, Book of the Year Award, 2004.
  • (with Jean Yonomura Wing) Unfinished Business: Closing the Achievement in Our Schools (2006). San Francisco, CA: Josey Bass.
  • The Trouble With Black Boys: Reflections on Race, Equity and the Future of Public Education (2008). San Francisco: Wiley and Sons. (Winner American Education Studies Association Critics Choice Award; Schott Foundation Award for Research on Race and Gender; Scholastic Publishers Award)
  • (with A. Wade Boykin) Creating the Opportunity to Learning: Moving from Research to Practice to Close the Achievement Gap (2011). Washington, D.C.: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
  • (with Edward Fergus and Margary Martin) Schooling for Resilience: Improving Life Trajectories for Black and Latino Boys (2014). Cambridge: Harvard Education Press.
  • The Schools We Need: Education, Inequality and America's Future (forthcoming). New York: New Press.[7][better source needed]

As editor edit

  • (with Shawn Ginwright and Julio Camarota) Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change (2006). New York: Routledge.
  • (with Carlos Alberto Torres) Social Justice Education for Teachers: Paulo Freire and the Possible Dream (2008). London, UK: Sense Publishers.
  • (with William Ayers, Gloria Ladson-Billings, and Gregory Mitchie) City Kids, City Schools (2008). New York: New Press.
  • (with Aida Hurtado and Edward Fergus) Invisible No More: Understanding and Responding to the Disenfranchisement of Latino Males (2011). New York: Routledge.
  • (with Alan Blankstein) Excellence Through Equity (2015). San Francisco: Corwin Press.
  • (with Jill Pierce and Roey Ahram) Race, Equity and Education: The Pursuit of Equality in Education 60 Years After Brown (2015). New York: Springer Press.

Awards edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Bio - Pedro A. Noguera". USC Rossier School of Education. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  2. ^ Lindberg, Eric (April 27, 2020). "Prominent sociologist Pedro Noguera named as USC Rossier School of Education dean". USC News. Retrieved August 21, 2021.
  3. ^ "Noguera Urges Urban Educators to Stand Fast in Wake of Anticipated Cutbacks". Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. 2014-11-07. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
  4. ^ McCartney, Robert (2012-12-15). "Montgomery superintendent shows courage in denouncing standardized tests". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
  5. ^ "The Complex Disadvantages Underlying New York City's Specialized-High-School Dilemma". The New Yorker. 2018-06-15. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
  6. ^ "Pedro Noguera". UCLA GSEIS. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015.
  7. ^ "Publications – Pedro A. Noguera".
  8. ^ "Grants & Awards (Partial List) – Pedro A. Noguera".

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