Pedro Noguera Explained

Pedro Noguera
Birth Date:	7 August 1959
Workplaces:	USC Rossier School of Education

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]}

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

As author

• 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]

As editor

• (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

• 1997 Wellness Foundation Award for Research on Youth Violence
• 1997 University of California's Distinguished Teaching Award
• 2001 Honorary Doctorate, 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 (The Trouble With Black Boys)
• 2009 Scholastic Corporation Education Hero Award
• 2011 Honorary Doctorate, Bank Street College
• 2012 Honorary Doctorate, Metropolitan College of New York
• 2013 Honorary Doctorate, Lewis and Clark College, Portland Oregon
• 2013 Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society
• 2013 Martin Luther King Award for Leadership in Social Justice, New York
• 2014 National Academy of Education
• 2014 Award for Exemplary Scholarship Advanced Center for Behavioral Sciences
• 2015 National Association of Secondary School Principals for Distinguished Service to Public Education
• 2015 Horace Mann Award
• 2015 Honorary Doctorate, Duquesne University
• 2015 Honorary Doctorate, Lesley University^[8]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bio - Pedro A. Noguera. USC Rossier School of Education. 6 August 2020.
2. Web site: Lindberg . Eric . Prominent sociologist Pedro Noguera named as USC Rossier School of Education dean . USC News . August 21, 2021 . April 27, 2020.
3. Web site: 2014-11-07. Noguera Urges Urban Educators to Stand Fast in Wake of Anticipated Cutbacks. 2022-01-28. Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. en-us.
4. News: McCartney. Robert. 2012-12-15. Montgomery superintendent shows courage in denouncing standardized tests. en-US. Washington Post. 2022-01-28. 0190-8286.
5. 2018-06-15. The Complex Disadvantages Underlying New York City's Specialized-High-School Dilemma. 2022-01-28. The New Yorker. en-US.
6. Web site: Pedro Noguera . UCLA GSEIS . https://web.archive.org/web/20150905223300/https://gseis.ucla.edu/directory/pedro-noguera/ . September 5, 2015 . dead.
7. Web site: Publications – Pedro A. Noguera.
8. Web site: Grants & Awards (Partial List) – Pedro A. Noguera.