HIGHLIGHTS

Pedro Noguera

Educator

Plenary Speaker
Saturday Afternoon, July 17, 2004

Dr. Noguera is Professor of Teaching and Learning at the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University. He was previously the Judith K. Dimon Professor of Communities and Schools at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research focuses on the ways in which schools respond to social and economic conditions within the urban environment. He has engaged in collaborative research with several large, urban school districts, and he has published and lectured on topics such as youth violence, race relations within schools, the potential impact of school choice and vouchers on urban public schools, factors contributing to student achievement and secondary issues resulting from desegregation in public schools. His articles on these topics have appeared in several leading research journals and edited volumes. His latest book, Confronting the Urban: How City Schools Can Respond to Social Inequality," is being published by Teachers College Press and will be available in January 2003.

Dr. Noguera has also done extensive field research and worked on several collaborative projects in the Caribbean and Latin America. He has published several articles on the role of education in political and social change in the region and he is the author of "The Imperatives of Power: Political Change and the Social Basis of Regime Support in Grenada" (Peter Lang Publishers, 1997).

Dr. Noguera served as an elected member of the Berkeley School Board from 1990 to 1994. He has also served as a member of the US Public Health Service Centers for Disease Control Taskforce on Youth Violence, and as Chair of the Committee on Ethics in Research and Human Rights for the American Educational Research Association. Dr. Noguera was a K-12 classroom teacher for several years and continues to teach part-time in high schools. In 1995 he received an award from the Wellness Foundation for his research on youth violence, and in 1997 he was the recipient of the University of California's Distinguished Teaching Award.

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