Pedro Antonio Noguera, Ph.D.
Professor of Teaching and Learning
New York University
Executive Director
Metropolitan Center for Urban Education
Pedro Noguera is the Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Development at New York University. He also serves as the 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). Noguera is an urban sociologist, and his scholarship and research focus on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions. From 2000 to 2003 Noguera served as the Judith K. Dimon Professor of Communities and Schools at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. From 1990 to 2000 he was a Professor at the Graduate School of Education and the Director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of California, Berkeley.
Noguera has published more than 150 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 several major research journals, and many are available online at inmotionmagazine.com. He is the author of several groundbreaking books, including 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), Beyond Resistance (Routledge, 2006), and Unfinished Business: Closing the Achievement Gap in Our Nation's Schools (Jossey-Bass, 2006). His most recent book is The Trouble With Black Boys and Other Reflections on Race, Equity and the Future of Public Education (Jossey-Bass, 2008) (Winner of the American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award and the Schott Foundation award for research on race and gender).
In 2008 Noguera was appointed by New York Governor David Paterson to serve as a Trustee for the State University of New York (SUNY). He is a frequent commentator on educational issues on CNN, National Public Radio and other news outlets. He also serves on the board of several local and national education and youth development organizations.
