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Pedro Noguera
Pedro Noguera

Pedro Noguera, professor of sociology at New York University, will present a lecture, “Education and Civil Rights in the 21st Century,” on Monday, Sept. 22, at 4:15 p.m., in the Kirner-Johnson Building’s Bradford Auditorium. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will offer his reflections on the 60th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education landmark decision and current inequities in American education.

Noguera, the Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at NYU, is a sociologist whose scholarship and research focuses on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions, as well as by demographic trends in local, regional and global contexts. He holds faculty appointments in the departments of Teaching and Learning and Humanities and Social Sciences at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Development. He also serves as an affiliated faculty member in NYU’s Department of Sociology. Noguera is the executive director of the Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools. From 2008 - 2011, he was an appointee of the governor of New York to the State University of New York (SUNY) Board of Trustees and in 2014 he was elected to the National Academy of Education.

Noguera received his bachelor’s degree in sociology and history and a teaching credential from Brown University, his masters’ degree in sociology from Brown and his doctorate in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. He was a classroom teacher in public schools in Providence, R.I., and Oakland, Calif., and continues to work with schools nationally and internationally as a researcher and advisor.

As an author, Noguera has published over 200 research and scholarly articles, monographs, research reports and editorials on topics such as urban school reform, education policy, conditions that promote student achievement, the role of education in community development, youth violence, and race and ethnic relations in American society. His most recent book is Schooling for Resilience: Improving the Life Trajectories of African American and Latino Boys (Harvard Education Press 2014) with Edward Fergus and Margary Martin.

Noguera appears as a regular commentator on educational issues on CNN, MSNBC, National Public Radio and other national news outlets.

The lecture is sponsored by the Days-Massolo Center.

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