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Pedro Noguera Board of Trustees New York, NY

Pedro Noguera is a professor in the departments of Teaching and Learning and Humanities and Social Sciences at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Development and in the Department of Sociology at New York University.  He 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).

Dr. Noguera joined the SUNY Board of Trustees in December of 2008.  An urban sociologist, Noguera’s scholarship and research focus on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions in the urban environment.  Noguera has served as an advisor and engaged in collaborative research with school districts throughout the United States.  He has also done extensive research on issues related to education and economic and social development in the Caribbean, Latin America and several other countries throughout the world.

From 2000 - 2003 Noguera served as the Judith K. Dimon Professor of Communities and Schools at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. From 1990 – 2000 he was Professor in Social and Cultural Studies at the Graduate School of Education and the Director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of California, Berkeley.

Pedro Noguera 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 several major research journals and many are available online at inmotionmagazine.com.  He 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 – winner of Foreward Magazine Gold Award), he is the co-editor of Beyond Resistance: Youth Activism and Community Change, (with Shawn Ginwright and Julio Camarota - Routledge 2006), Unfinished Business: Closing the Achievement Gap in Our Nation’s Schools (with Jean Yonemura Wing - Josey Bass, 2006), City Kids, City Teachers with Bill Ayers and Greg Michie (New Press 2008) and his most recent book is The Trouble With Black Boys, and other reflections on race, equity and the future of public education (Wiley and Sons 2008).

Noguera has served as a member of the US Public Health Service Centers for Disease Control Taskforce on Youth Violence, the Chair of the Committee on Ethics in Research and Human Rights for the American Educational Research Association, and on numerous advisory boards to local and national education and youth organizations.  Dr. Noguera was a K-12 classroom teacher for several years and continues to teach part-time in high schools. From 1986-1988 he served as the Executive Assistant to the Mayor of Berkeley, and from 1990 – 1994 he was an elected member and the President of the Berkeley School Board.  From 2005 – 2006 he served as the President of the Caribbean Studies Association and a member of the Commission on the Whole Child (Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development).

In 1995 he received an award from the Wellness Foundation for his research on youth violence, in 1997 he was the recipient of the University of California's Distinguished Teaching Award, in 2001 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of San Francisco and the Centennial Medal from Philadelphia University for his work in the field of education, and in 2005 he received the Eugene Carothers Award and the Whitney Young Award from the National Urban League, both for leadership in the field of education.

Noguera is the father of four children and resides in New York City.