Pedro Noguera
Pedro Noguera is the Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean of the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education. He is recognized as a leading scholar of urban public education, equity, and school reform.
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.
Books
As author
The Imperatives of Power: Regime survival and the basis of political support in Grenada, 1951-1991. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.City Schools and the American Dream: Fulfilling the Promise of Public Education. 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.Unfinished Business: Closing the Achievement in Our Schools. San Francisco, CA: Josey Bass.The Trouble With Black Boys: Reflections on Race, Equity and the Future of Public Education. San Francisco: Wiley and Sons. Creating the Opportunity to Learning: Moving from Research to Practice to Close the Achievement Gap. Washington, D.C.: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.Schooling for Resilience: Improving Life Trajectories for Black and Latino Boys. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press.The Schools We Need: Education, Inequality and America's Future. New York: New Press.As editor
Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change. New York: Routledge.Social Justice Education for Teachers: Paulo Freire and the Possible Dream. London, UK: Sense Publishers.City Kids, City Schools. New York: New Press.Invisible No More: Understanding and Responding to the Disenfranchisement of Latino Males. New York: Routledge.Excellence Through Equity. San Francisco: Corwin Press.Race, Equity and Education: The Pursuit of Equality in Education 60 Years After Brown. 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
- 2003 AESA Critics Choice Book Award
- 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
- 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